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Friday Eve Randoms

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  • imageKasa:

    JGE, that's awesome of you guys to take Cedar in.  Your SIL put you in a really crummy position.

    Agreed.  Hopefully Cedar settles in soon.

  • imageMrsJuliD:

    I haven't been in Cabela's, but order online from them my outdoor boots a few years ago.  I love them.  Good quality, good price.

    I think it's a good step to getting some big stores on the East side of the state.  Next, Trader Joe's or Whole Foods and REI please.

    Yes. I would like one Trader Joe's, please.  TJs coming to GR is a recurring joke for us. "Oh, available retail space. Maybe a Trader Joe's could move in." Trader Joe's Tart d' Alsace needs to be back in my life.  I'm sure I could make it, but it wouldn't be the same.

  • imageDesmond&MollyJones:
    I want to go to Ikea!

    Me too! 

    I think we've decided to keep Henry in his crib as long as possible, so I am not planning on using it for #2. Ikea crib it is!

  • I've never been to a Trader Joe's before but I hear fabulous things from you girls that have been there. 

    Cabela's is mecca for the outdoor lifestyle. Camping, hunting, fishing ect. I know people that have set up saving accounts to to shop there. Once they have enough they will go and spend $500-600 there! " The Grandville store, which is expected to employ about 200 full- and part-time employees, will also feature a boat shop, gun library, bargain cave and fudge shop. " This is then one that was originally going to be built in Walker but the Walker govt couldn't get everything together. They are going to build it where the old X-Rite build was. I guess that whole area is being built up as plans for a Target are in place too.

  • imageHoektastic:

    imageDesmond&MollyJones:
    I want to go to Ikea!

    Me too! 

    I think we've decided to keep Henry in his crib as long as possible, so I am not planning on using it for #2. Ikea crib it is!

    me 3. I have the Ikea catalog. The last thing I want to get for SS bedroom is there, a new comforter set.  

  • imageJaredsgirlErin:

    Cedar is ours for the long term.

    I do think she's stressed out, it's a much different environment from what she's used to (a college apartment with two little dogs).

    In addition to the environment, I'm sure we treat her a lot differently than my SIL did. Jared and I are both mildly allergic to her, so she's not allowed to cuddle with us on the bed or our upstairs couch (I've given up on the downstairs couch, we're getting a new one in a couple of weeks and it's been Clapton's forever anyway...) Also, SIL is neurotic, especially about her dogs. Two of them are on allergy shots, they all get different foods, one or the other of the two smaller ones is always confined in some way because of some injury (this happened often before Cedar came as well)

    Some of you may remember when she went to get Cedar, she drove all the way to New York against the advice of her parents and Jared and myself (she asked me to drive there with her...) This whole situation has been borked from the beginning. *Sigh* Thanks for reading my novel.

    What a tough situation for you. So kind of you to care for Cedar, she is lucky to have you.

  • imageDeeder522:

    I've never been to a Trader Joe's before but I hear fabulous things from you girls that have been there. 

    Cabela's is mecca for the outdoor lifestyle. Camping, hunting, fishing ect. I know people that have set up saving accounts to to shop there. Once they have enough they will go and spend $500-600 there! " The Grandville store, which is expected to employ about 200 full- and part-time employees, will also feature a boat shop, gun library, bargain cave and fudge shop. " This is then one that was originally going to be built in Walker but the Walker govt couldn't get everything together. They are going to build it where the old X-Rite build was. I guess that whole area is being built up as plans for a Target are in place too.

    I wonder if they will have hunter safety? I really want to take up turkey hunting with my dad but don't want to be the 30 something year old lady in a room full of 12 year old boys in the basement of some church. Ick. 

  • imageWendyGR:
    imageDeeder522:

    I've never been to a Trader Joe's before but I hear fabulous things from you girls that have been there. 

    Cabela's is mecca for the outdoor lifestyle. Camping, hunting, fishing ect. I know people that have set up saving accounts to to shop there. Once they have enough they will go and spend $500-600 there! " The Grandville store, which is expected to employ about 200 full- and part-time employees, will also feature a boat shop, gun library, bargain cave and fudge shop. " This is then one that was originally going to be built in Walker but the Walker govt couldn't get everything together. They are going to build it where the old X-Rite build was. I guess that whole area is being built up as plans for a Target are in place too.

    I wonder if they will have hunter safety? I really want to take up turkey hunting with my dad but don't want to be the 30 something year old lady in a room full of 12 year old boys in the basement of some church. Ick. 

    LOL. I don't know but if you end up in the church basement call me and I'll go with you.  

  • JGE: Lucky, lucky Cedar.  Hope she gets her stuff together soon.
    Willa 4.6.06 and Henry 10.18.08 Camp Sinki
  • imageHoektastic:

    imageDesmond&MollyJones:
    I want to go to Ikea!

    Me too! 

    I think we've decided to keep Henry in his crib as long as possible, so I am not planning on using it for #2. Ikea crib it is!

    Fun! They have super cute cribs for great prices!

    We've decided to buy Tennyson a big boy furniture set, and have the new baby use his crib. Maybe I'll look at Ikea for T's new furniture.

    He'll be 2 yrs and 9 months when we move him to a bed. (Maybe slightly younger.). I can't justify buying another crib (as much as I want to!) for something I have no idea what to do with when they both grow out of it. The teeth marks make it impossible to sell. Do I throw it away? Ugh, that seems so wasteful. What do people do with their old cribs?
  • Des and Mol, W&H are 2 years, 6 months apart.  Good spacing.  Just for reassurance, she did great  w/ the bed transition at that time.

    I plan to convert our crib to a bench when Henry's done.  I know some folks keep it for grandbabies.  But knowing how little I wanted our babies in 30+ year old cribs, I wouldn't consider it.

    Willa 4.6.06 and Henry 10.18.08 Camp Sinki
  • imageGRsweetpea:

    Des and Mol, W&H are 2 years, 6 months apart.  Good spacing.  Just for reassurance, she did great  w/ the bed transition at that time.

    I plan to convert our crib to a bench when Henry's done.  I know some folks keep it for grandbabies.  But knowing how little I wanted our babies in 30+ year old cribs, I wouldn't consider it.

    Pinterest has some great ideas for repurposing cribs!

     

  • imageMrsJuliD:

    I haven't been in Cabela's, but order online from them my outdoor boots a few years ago.  I love them.  Good quality, good price.

    I think it's a good step to getting some big stores on the East side of the state.  Next, Trader Joe's or Whole Foods and REI please.

    I don't want Whole Paycheck but yes please to TJ's and REI!

  • imageJaredsgirlErin:

    Cedar is ours for the long term.

     

    First of all, excellent use of "borked"!  That's one of my favorite political terms and I think most of our generation is now too young to use it.

    I hope Cedar settles in nicely and you and Jared are saints for taking her in.  

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