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Munchkin shops

Tuesday, September 5th, 2006

I am passing down a dangerous gene to the Munchkin – the shopping gene. Fortunately, right now it’s not so much what she can get at any particular store, but what she can do at that store. Here are a list of “good” stores right now: Disney Store – Enough said. Large projection screen and […]



Dealing with incompetence

Thursday, August 31st, 2006

I’ve had a couple of days to simmer down about this, so I finally feel like I can blog about it. On Little Tad’s birthday, we went to get his portraits taken at a local department store photo studio, which I used to work at several years ago. Because I used to work there, and […]



Sweet shopping freedom

Wednesday, August 23rd, 2006

It’s amazing how much you can get done when you don’t take the kids shopping with you. Friend graciously agreed to watch the Munchkin and Little Tad for me (I had baby-sat the Brain and Head last week), and Auntie and I did a marathon mall trek in the few hours of freedom I had […]



Is it just me?

Tuesday, August 22nd, 2006

Is anyone else miffed about the inconvenience of Amazon and Toys ‘R Us breaking up? At first, I thought it might not be too bad. I did have to restructure my wish list as far as toy items went, but I thought I’d be able to find replacements for the same toys through Amazon’s various […]