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Nathan is finishing up his 2 day risk game with the boys so I am taking a moment to say nothing much. My adoption paperwork (one small part) is missing from the US and Haiti. Of course I sent all these documents priority mail but who knows where they are now. The good news is that these documents aren't holding up the adoption, if they don't get resolved before I travel to Haiti then I might have some trouble.

We close on the old house next tuesday so that will work out nicely since we were just notified that we still owe a good deal of back taxes for 06, yuck!

I have implemented a chore/behaviour chart for the boys. Everyday they have to complete 3 jobs without my reminding them to get a sticker for that job. They also have 2 behaviours that we are working on that get 2 stickers each if they succeed in those. (like no hitting, or no arguing, and talking patiently with siblings) At the end of 2 weeks if they have 50 stickers I take them to buy a candy bar or small treat around 50 cents. If at the end of the month they have 100 stickers I buy them a slightly bigger treat. Austin and Luke got to go yesterday after church and pick up something, Evan was 4 stickers shy but he still gets to go for the month prize. Every night at bedtime we go over the chart and all children seem motivated to get their stickers. This is eliminating some of my nagging and having to constantly supervise their work plus it is making bed time so much better because I don't walk into their room at night to tuck them in and find a disaster. There teeth and beds must be done by 10am but their other work is required to be done before the tucking in at bedtime. So far so good. Oh and we break for the sabbath all they do is brush their teeth.