Brain Explosion!

I've have spent the last week in work trying to work out how to make a recording on a microphone, transfer this to the computer, then take this whole recording and cut the bits I want to use to add to a photostory the children are making. I finally worked out how to use Movie Maker to cut the recording into the sections the children wanted. The only problem was the file would only save as a movie! This I was totally unable to transfer to the Photo Story project as it needed to be an audio file.
After many break times and lunch times spent screaming at the computer I copied all the relevant information onto my hard drive and brought it home.
I then spent many hours over the weekend trying again to solve this problem.
Just over an hour ago I decided to be brave enough to try again even though my brain is in total meltdown.  While I was beginning my screaming match with my laptop my son came over to sit and laugh at me - as is his normal behaviour while I'm developing my ICT skills! Within 2 mins he realised what I was trying to do, took the computer off me and proceeded to copy, cut, save, transfer, play and laugh with great ease. It then took him an hour to explain it all to me. (and I'm still not really sure if I get it!)
So now it's my turn to utilize this new found bunch of skills. Will let you know if I succeed.