At age 14, I, Maria JoAnn Blackwood, am officially...

...Going gray. Well ok, it all started two Sundays ago when charity was looking through my hair, and she found two gray hairs. I told her not to pull them out because supposedly for every gray hair you pull out, two grow in its place. She pulled them out anyway. Well it must be true, because yesterday Charity was straightening my hair, and she found 4 gray hairs. They actually weren't exactly gray, they were more a silvery white. I think that that is better then gray.

Washing the dishes
Washing the dishes used to be my least favorite job ever. But now...Well it is not my least favorite job ever. I guess I must have just gotten used to it. It doesn't bother me so much anymore. I work a lot better when I am working with music. I love listening to the Phantom of the Opera soundtrack when I am working with Benjamin in the kitchen because he sings along, and he can actually do it pretty well. I also like washing the dishes when tamara rinses, because we get a lot of time to talk about everything. It is fun.

Going under...way under
Today Benjamin and I went under the house in the crawl space. He first crawled under from one end of the house, all the way to the other. He got all dressed up in jeans, tennis shoes, and a long sleeve shirt. We tied some twine to his shoe, and he went under. We put our computers out into our weird American kids club house, but the only way to get internet access to our shed was to put a cord from our living room(because it is the only room that gets internet access) to my dads office and then we have an intenna to point to my dads office. We put the cord under the house. First Benjamin crawled under to get the cord under the house. He then crawled back out with the cord. Then we both had to go back under to nail the cord up. We went all the way to the other end of the house to nail it up. When we got there, we found out that Benjamin had accidentally left the hammer behind somewhere. I sent him back to get it. He eventually found it, and brought it back. We nailed the cord up. We were in there for almost two hours total. When we got out, we were both COVERED in dirt. We will try to put up pictures on our picture website soon.