cold hard cash

First we'd like to report that we survived our first ice storm last week. I was lucky enough to have left early to pick up Morgan from school so i didn't end up having to drive in the worst of it. CoP let all their employees off two hours early but Nate only got home about 10 min. earlier than normal. He had to drive really slow and found that some roads were closed and then ended up leaving his car and walking the last mile home. He watched several cars spin out in front of him and knew it was no use trying to get to the top of the hill in his car.
Minus the driving we thought it was pretty cool. We all went out to "ice skate" on our patio. The kids and i got a whole collection of ice leaves by carefully peeling the ice later off of our plants. They were really cool. We had a fun time and Morgan enjoyed the next two days off from school.
After the storm there was a total swing in the weather and we enjoyed beautiful sunshiney days for the weekend. On Saturday the kids were playing outside and they found a snail shell. They rang the back doorbell to get my attention and when i went out we had this conversation:
Morgan:"Look, a snail shell. Can we sell this for two dollars and sixty cents?"
Me: "That would be fun, but i don't think that anyone will buy it for that much."
Emma:"But we need to."
Me:"Really. Why do you need to?"
Morgan: "So we can get lots of money."
Emma: "Yeah, we need lots of money."
Me: "What do you need lots of money for?"
Emma: "So we can buy lots of dolls and other things."
Now Morgan could tell that this wasn't quite the right answer so he piped in with this response: "Cause tithing? So we can pay lots of tithing."
I thought it was pretty funny. I guess at least they have a righteous desire to pay tithing.