NO rain today!!! Such a nice day outside! The CR river crested today at 31.12 and is finally starting to go back down...slowly! But man I can't imagine what is going to be left once all the water goes away. But that's going to still be quite a few days away. They are estimating Friday before the rivers go back to below flood levels. And now sure how long before the bridges will be open to cross, since they will have to be examined for safety.
Salem and Kaden and mommy went to Michaels today. I had to pick up a couple things and the boys wanted to use their money for some crafts items. Kaden bought some clay, had to have non air dry clay, which we did find. He also bought one of their $1 wood kits. Both boys love doing them. They are easy enough for them to figure out, but hard enough to keep them busy. Then they get to paint them and then play! Salem bought a $1 wood kit, pack of tracing paper and bead kit (which is a little tough for him) and a foam kit to make a skateboard ramp. Kaden split the cost of the ramp since they will both be sharing it. We'll build that tomorrow. It's great seeing them use their money semi wisely.
I say semi because we went to HyVee later and Kaden bought 2 packs of donuts, a candy bar and a bottle of bug juice. I told him we would buy him a pack of donuts (37¢) but he wanted to. The bug juice was $1, vs the 2liter bottle of sofa Salem bought which was 59¢. Buy hey Kaden wanted the bug juice, so he used his money. But then he complains how he doesn't have much money left, duh! Both kids agreed they won't get their allowance money for this week until their playroom is picked up. It doesn't have to be perfect, but they have to do a much better job than what they have done in there. I hope that has lit a little fire under them to start working on it.
Starting next week, they are going to be starting to save their money. So far we've been letting them spend it as they want. That fun is now going to end. They'll be saving a portion of it and spending a portion. They both have their money burning holes in their pockets. Need to stop that!
Keith was able to get some pictures as he drove across the I-380 bridge today. I'll get them posted tomorrow. Nothing much more than what you can see on any of the news channels I listed the other day.
We're kinda stuck in our area. They closed the I-380 bridge over the Iowa river down to Iowa City. The detour takes you north to hwy 20 across to hwy 35 north of DM, then go south to 80 in DM and across to 380 in Iowa City. I'm guessing it's a good 4 hour detour! No thank you!
Tomorrow will be nice again! Sunshine! We're on a voluntary water restriction to help out CR who is on a mandatory water restriction. So no playing in the water tomorrow for the kids. I did do a load of laundry today and took a shower. But otherwise, I'll hold off on doing the dishes and more showers. Short ones when we do. They want us to restrict our sewer usage. So we're using the "if it's yellow let it mellow theory..."
On that note...have a good evening, hope you're dry!!
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