You might call this a free ride. It can also be called a free early dinner.  Any day you can find mozzarella sticks and pizza bagels at Costco as free samples is a good day! And yes, neither boy is walking.  Talk about a free ride, indeed.

It is one of the more interesting things about our home – we have inherited/acquired a lot of hand-me-down furniture.  This is a great thing for the budget, but it has presented some logistical issues. For example, we have never owned more that 4 chairs for our kitchen/dining room table that have all matched.  The […]

Yeah, we let our nerd flag fly pretty high and proudly in this family.  So when ThinkGeek opened its first Seattle store in the mall I grew up shopping in, my friend Lisa and I made plans to go for the grand opening. She scouted it out ahead of time (because the store actually opened […]

Rerun likes getting stickers from Trader Joe’s when we go shopping there.  And then he likes putting the stickers on himself.  Not on his clothes, on his skin. As he was doing this, he looked at me and said, “Why can’t I have a normal mom?” HEY, wait a minute there, pot.  Meet kettle. I […]