My little red mini

It has been less than a year of having my wonderful new netbook computer. It has a nice home in our kitchen and it is my only link to the outside world. I use it all day to check email, bank balance, recipes, shop, blog, facebook. The boys have taken to doing all kinds of terrible things while I take the 2 minutes to check my email... chase the dog, climb on the counter, beat each other up, scream, kind of like when I try to make a phone call. Well, the other day I came around the corner and Mr. Matt had got himself up on the kitchen counter and had the scissors and cut the power cord into 3 pieces. I was rendered speechless and calmly took the scissors out of his hands and got him off the counter. It took me a while to process what had just taken place. Not my link to the outside world!!! What am I going to do?!?!? Luckily my wonderful husband is a bit of an electronics geek and was able to restore the life line to my little red mini, and this was all before the battery went dead. Oh yeah, Matt was fine. This is not the only hit the mini has taken. There was one day when they both got it open and took a bunch of the keys off. This was interesting as there are a lot of little pieces under these things you type on which I was unaware of until I was on my kitchen floor with a flashlight trying to locate them. A huge thank you to my husband for the calm "Ok what did they do? I 'm sure I can fix it" when I call in a panic. Who knows what they will do to it next - nothing is safe.