We love IKEA

Ed's out of town for business tonight so I told the kids we could go somewhere fun since I wouldn't have to rush out to work. Kevin and Ryan automatically said they wanted to go to IKEA. For those who haven't been to IKEA, they have a huge, bright, clean, well attended and oh, yeah - FREE playroom you can leave the kids in while shopping. Depending on how busy the store is, you can shop for between 30 minutes and 1 hour. Today when I dropped the kids off, they asked if it was OK if I left them for 1 and 1/2 hours. Sweet! I went upstairs to the cafeteria and enjoyed a delicious salmon dinner for cheap and then shopped. I did get called early because Ryan hurt his lip but overall, they had fun. Then we got some frozen yogurt and Ryan was all better. While we were eating the frozen yogurt, we heard an announcement that all Christmas decorations were on sale for FIVE CENTS each! There were some decorations, some ribbons, bows, candles, etc... We got $3.00 worth - yes, 60 Christmas items!! We hit the jackpot. I will use a lot of it for crafts and gifts and will donate a bunch to the preschool!!! What a bah-gain!