Ella's napping right now, which is a very good thing. She's been a rather cranky girl today. That's surprised me since she fell asleep around 6 p.m. last night and I actually woke her up around 8:30 a.m. today so we could get out of the house and get a free breakfast at our local Hy-Vee. Unfortunately the free breakfast didn't happen. The dining area was filled to the brim, and when we saw the line of people waiting we turned right around and headed back to the van. Cory went early this morning before work and said we could have gotten our breakfasts to go. Shoot!

Tonight we might be getting a working dryer! Only 1 1/2 months after ours breaks down, right? Our plan was to manage for a while longer because we need to put our money toward property taxes that are due at the end of the month. Then we'd focus on the dryer. We still weren't too thrilled about calling someone for repairs when that could very well end up costing almost as much as a new dryer depending on the problem and parts needed. So we decided we'd check out the classifieds and see if anyone is selling an used dryer for $100 or less. There was one listed today and I called, and it turned out to be the owner of the art studio that Accalia attends. They had ended up getting a new washer/dryer set of a different color and this one still works great. So we're going over tonight to possibly haul it home. The fun part, of course, will be moving out the old dryer and hauling in the new one.

So that's the excitement so far today.