- I have been in the big goodwill stuff several times, and I have yet to find anything in Munchkin’s size but a paltry selection of summer clothes. There’s a large baby section which ends at size twenty-four months, and there is a large selection of cltohes in the 5t and above section, but nothing for Munchkin. There must be an area that I am missing.

- We did find a Little Tykes basketball net similar to this one but without the graphic and very faded for twelve bucks. We called it a very late birthday present and we pick it up tomorrow.

- Did I mention that lunch was very, very, very good?

- I was outbid by fifty cents in the last ten seconds of an Ebay auction. I’m being rather unreasonably annoyed by this considering how often I snipe auctions. Which actually isn’t that often since I’ve only bought a handful of things of Ebay, but is still a good percentage of what I have bought.

- Why does shipping to Canada have to be so insanely expensive? And why is it often even more expensive to have shipped within Canada than it is to have it shipped to or from the US?

- I am currently kicking myself because I completely forgot to bid in an auction for a cute sweater and matching tights for Munchkin. They ended up not going for very much, and the shipping charges were quite reasonable for once. Why didn’t I check the auctions I was watching today?

- Munchkin picked this bear out of a bin at Ikea today and claimed that she had to have it. It’s amazing how happy something that costs three bucks can make a kid. It’s also amazing just how many stuffed animals she has - I have no idea how her collection grew to such a size.

- Poor Baby Bear, on the other hand, only has one stuffed animal. He had none until a few weeks ago when I was wandering through the kids section of Ikea and felt the need to at least start to remedy the inequity of the stuffed animal situation. So we bought him this bunny which is so cute and soft and the carrot is a rattle.

- Someday one or the other of my kids will get this because it cracks me up every time I see it. I have no idea why, it just does.

- We also looked at new living room furniture today. I think we’re going to be able to get a new set soon - I hope it’s before our current stuff falls apart completely. I also need a new rocking chair somewhat sooner than we’d get everything else. Like right now.

- I bought Baby Bear a pacifier the yesterday in the hopes that it might solve our recent sleep problem (all of a sudden he is impossible to put down while sleeping, and he won’t sleep at all if he’s not cuddled up to me. It might be teething.) He wouldn’t take one one he was younger, but another mother was just telling me the other day that her baby didn’t start taking one until four or five months. So I thought I might as well try. Of course he wanted nothing to do with it. On the other hand, Munchkin, who also wanted absolutley nothing to do with one as a baby - keeps putting it in her mouth and claiming to be a baby. Suddenly I am reminded of just why we tossed the ones we bought him when he was younger.

- I was out shopping by myself (how strange!) for a bit yesterday. I kept looking around for my children in a panic until I’d remember two seconds later that they were at home with M. Does everyone else do this?

- Am I the only one obsessively checking the Nanowrimo forums to see if they have re-launched yet? I never did get around to posting before they went down, and I’ve been actively lurking since July! Only about three more hours until they are officially late in getting them back online. Oh, and I am so going to fail misserably this year. But that’s okay.

- OHMYGOODNESS IT IS OCTOBER ALREADY!!!!