How to keep my kids busy....

Introduce them to E-MAIL!

Tabi, Chrisi, and Ricky all got their own e-mail addresses last week. They have sent numerous e-mails to each other and other members of the family. Then they realized that e-mail can be accessed at all the computers in the house. So the first thing they did after realizing that there is a e-mail universe was get me my laptop and told me to "check your e-mail mommy!!!".
I have a mail box full of "hi" e-mails and one "ih" e-mail from Ricky. These are mixed among the many "I love you" e-mails I now receive several times a day.

Thank you g-mail team for giving me a mail box with 7136 MB of space, my kids are taking this as a challenge to fill.

There is also a bit of amusement in the house. We will have one child sitting at the kitchen computer and another will be on the downstairs computer. Approximately every 5 to 10 minutes you will hear one of them yell to the other, "CHECK YOUR E-MAIL!". They will continue like this for hours. The annual yelling of check you e-mail is followed by the running of the e-mail. Oh, you haven't hear of "the running of the e-mail"? This is where the child who wrote the e-mail frantically races across the dinning room and down the stairs and across the basement sliding into the computer desk in a attempt to "beat the e-mail" to the other computer. The e-mail remains undefeated.