MONDAY TUESDAY

5:30 AM: Morning news and coffee 6:00 AM

6:30AM: waking up! 7AM: getting ready to load the"school bus"
7:45 AM: Breakfast

10AM: More Bread

11AM - 3PM: Trying to sort out....pizza for dinner

HEAD IN THE SAND

Todays headlines:

• Day of Chaos Grips Washington Ahead of First Debate



• Washington Mutual was seized by federal regulators in what is the largest bank failure in American history.



• Ted Stevens, who has represented Alaska in the Senate for 40 years, engaged in “a scheme to conceal from the public” a variety of gifts and home renovation services he received.



• Eleven children ages 1 to 17 were left at Omaha hospitals on Wednesday under Nebraska’s unique safe haven law.



• The Department of Defense has identified 4,166 American service members who have died since the start of the Iraq war.



• European Union regulators on Thursday ordered rigorous testing of imports containing at least 15 percent milk powder after concluding that food containing tainted milk powder from China may well be circulating in Europe and putting children at risk.



• NAIROBI, Kenya — Somalia’s notorious pirates have staged perhaps their most brazen attack yet, seizing a Ukrainian ship in the Indian Ocean full of arms bound for Kenya’s military, including dozens of battle tanks, maritime and diplomatic officials said Friday.



• The Kremlin has decided to offer a $1 billion loan for arms purchases to Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez.



• President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said that growing world problems like war and poverty are the result of American mismanagement of global affairs.



• German police boarded a Dutch airliner Friday at Cologne-Bonn airport and seized two men suspected of terrorism.



• the Pakistanis fired shots or flares at two American helicopters that Pakistan says had crossed its border.



• Man Guilty in Canada Terror Plot



• 3 Bombers Blow Themselves Up in Pakistan



• Kurdish Rebels Say Turkish Airstrikes Hit Iraq



• Heavy Rains Are Deadly in Southwest China



• Financial Chill May Hit Developing Countries



• Zoo Animals Sickened by Tainted Chinese Milk



• Georgia: Bomb Strikes Abkhaz Capital



• Russia: Chechen Vows to Avenge Killing

Gone Knitting!