Tuesday, September 25th, 2007
Our old dining room table was solid core door (free) with $20 IKEA legs. We covered the door with black vinyl. It was childproof, easy to clean and completely hideous. Oh, and the door was 24”
wide, so you could rub knees (and plates) with the person sitting across from you. That dining room table was the equivalent of milk crate shelving or the beach chairs I once passed off for a living room suite.
So we needed a new dining room table. We couldn’t buy our ideal dining room table, of course, it will sport a layer of ground-in burritos, sour cream and blueberries in about a week. (more…)
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Tuesday, September 18th, 2007
When I was little, I had an impressive collection of Fisher Price Little People, which my brother and I called Peoples. As in, “Wanna play Peoples?” The answer was always yes, even though I was five years older than he was. (I was sort of immature, and he claims that he was wise beyond his years). I had the farm, Daniel had the garage. We had matching houseboats and two entire houses full of furniture. (The houses were kleenex boxes stapled together with contact paper “carpet.”)
So now that Finn is at the age when imaginary play is the key to future intelligence (or so the books say), I thought, “Got to get her some Little People!” Only – gasp! – a google search for Little People showed that Fisher Price destroyed Peoples!
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