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 The mystery of the car key was solved at 0300 February 1st. Now to make a permanent place to store the key while not in my possession. The trouble with this is that I have help. My help comes in the form of a young helper and an older helper. With that I have decided that I am discontented with this house. I will continue to try and make the best of it, but I am discouraged with the state of things. Part of this is because I have been up since 0200 this morning. Not because of sickness, just noise and being a light sleeper. The kids have been out of school since last week. We have accomplished very little schooling in the time they have been off. Learning has occurred though not in the traditional way. I think we are going to play scrabble latter this evening. That is at least spelling words. Homeschooling would not work with SIL being in the midst of my day. I have a nine-year-old and a sixty-two-year-old that is acting like a nine-year-old. I can hardly get anything done for ans...