I'm impressed to hear that Ellie was willing to confront the land of gaming systems. I find the whole thing overwhelming. Between the different systems and all the accessories I feel I need a course in order to even walk into some place that sells them. I look at the game controllers and get confused--could you possibly need all those buttons? I'm glad to hear that GameCube is good for the boys. When looking at the different games offered, GameCube offered the all important Sonic. Most of the other games looked good for kids their age.

Mojo started the "Real 4's" today. He was most excited about the whole thing. He finally was able to go off to school just like Cookie. I'm so glad that he started. He was wandering around here depressing me. Nothing was fun since Cookie was in school. Everything was boring. Mojo was out doing Morrisey in the depressive nature category.

Cookie has been in school a scant 4 days and already I have been suckered into making cookies for meet the principal night. Even more amazing, 2 days into school, a fund raiser pack was sent to me. I would much rather just give them a $ 100 donation and call it a day. No one needs this stuff--wrapping paper, assorted nasty looking candy, etc. all at ridiculously high prices.

I think that my games would have to include some kind of Siege game played out at Castle 1526 and another where the goal is to collect the most odd cast of characters and have them all over for dinner.