Here's Emma, all ready for her Little House on the Prairie party this morning. When she gets home, she's off to Nutcracker rehearsal, then we're going bowling with my stepbrother, Jason (who is a 20 year old Marine, just returning from 7 months in Iraq), then a family with 6 children is coming over this evening so the mom and I can go out to dinner... Read that last part again...Doug is staying home with 10 kids (age 1-13) so that I can go out with a friend. Her husband is a Chaplain in the Air Force and has been away at a training school for 4 weeks. Doug's a saint for this one!!!