Which is what we've all been doing since last Thursday, dd1's 4th birthday. Where did that time go?
dd1 is now a very happy bunny, having been in receipt of two ton of presents.
Her best friend, although absent in USA brought her a fabulous Dora dressing up kit, which she loves, although grandma looks very funny in the wig :-)
We got her a computer learning game, her first in Dora pink, with a Dora game, so happy bunny all round.
dd2 got dd1's 'baby' a new cot and ss got her a nintendog.
Dh managed to close the shop for two hours, and thankfully Richard was in the shop when I rang him in a panic.....as dh had gone to work, leaving my car trapped on the driveway, which I only noticed just before I was supposed to be picking him up!! not wanting dd1 to be late for her own party, Richard kindly brought him home asap for me. Much thanks honey!
Planet Happy was the party venue. That and a gallon more presents on Sunday with her friends has made her ecstatic. With the Yellow Power Ranger currently taking pride of place from that batch of presents, although the new colouring kit and cards are also being favoured nicely too :-)
Later on party Sunday, we were all back at the same play centre again, as one of dd1's friends also had her party there! This time it was private hire, so mainly the other girls large family and a few of her nursery friends. I finally discovered who the 'other' Aimee mummy, Big Aimee, mummy, was, it's one of the nursery nurses, lol. Who also happens to be related to the other child whose party it was, which is why she was there. Took a bit of explaining to dd1, who'd also asked to have some other teachers at her party, but I'd refused!
DD2 has been loving the influx of presents, the best so far being dd1's new rollerskates from Grandma.....she's been whizzing around the carpet on them, whilst dd1 is still clinging onto the nearest available adult, nothing physical seems to phasing dd2, must be that youngest competative streak!
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Tuesday, 6 November 2007
Monday, 15 October 2007
The quest for shelves
I've been attempting to obtain shelves for about a week now, out of stock has been the stock phrase, but wait! possibly in???? so I went to the hallowed halls of Blue and Yellow.......
Then I lost my rag. Had a nice breakfast there for 95p! and then made the mistake of joining the throng, in an attempt to get served in the shelving department. The girls and I, formed a nice que just before 11am at an information point, along with about 10 other couples. Eventually someone in 'customer service' dragged themselves to the area to say, oh, no staff here yet (11.08) you'd better go and join the que at the sofa department. Took one look, 30 deep minimum. Left in a huff along with several other people. So my search for shelves for the shop window began in ernest elsewhere, having waited a week in vain.
B&Q we're not far away, so we payed them a quick visit. Very quick, as they had no free standing shelving at all........why not????
Next on the list was Argos, which luckily for me had two of the shelves I settle on and two TV stands as well :-) (small stack on one side?!) Even got a nice young man to help me to the car with the lot, although his manager didn't look very happy about it! I just waved 4 items, a buggy and a 3 year old at him and he told the young gentleman to help :-)
Popped into Homebargins, which was fortuotus for dd1, as they had the last Dora Blanket on sale, so its residing on top of the freezer as her end of week, been good as gold treat! The threat of dd2 getting it if she fails seems to be working ;-)
So that was it really, more trudging than I'd have liked with the kids in tow, but you can't have everything, right?
They're now up in the shop window, ready for opening on Thursday (one day I'll get photos on this blog) mainly with stock on them, although I'm expecting 3 deliveries tomorrow, which should complete our little venture for now! I spent the rest of today putting the GW (Games Workshop) racking together, then getting the stock onto it. I'm getting quite excited now, I even have throwing dice for the first person who tries to rob us, improvised weapon right ;-)
Then I lost my rag. Had a nice breakfast there for 95p! and then made the mistake of joining the throng, in an attempt to get served in the shelving department. The girls and I, formed a nice que just before 11am at an information point, along with about 10 other couples. Eventually someone in 'customer service' dragged themselves to the area to say, oh, no staff here yet (11.08) you'd better go and join the que at the sofa department. Took one look, 30 deep minimum. Left in a huff along with several other people. So my search for shelves for the shop window began in ernest elsewhere, having waited a week in vain.
B&Q we're not far away, so we payed them a quick visit. Very quick, as they had no free standing shelving at all........why not????
Next on the list was Argos, which luckily for me had two of the shelves I settle on and two TV stands as well :-) (small stack on one side?!) Even got a nice young man to help me to the car with the lot, although his manager didn't look very happy about it! I just waved 4 items, a buggy and a 3 year old at him and he told the young gentleman to help :-)
Popped into Homebargins, which was fortuotus for dd1, as they had the last Dora Blanket on sale, so its residing on top of the freezer as her end of week, been good as gold treat! The threat of dd2 getting it if she fails seems to be working ;-)
So that was it really, more trudging than I'd have liked with the kids in tow, but you can't have everything, right?
They're now up in the shop window, ready for opening on Thursday (one day I'll get photos on this blog) mainly with stock on them, although I'm expecting 3 deliveries tomorrow, which should complete our little venture for now! I spent the rest of today putting the GW (Games Workshop) racking together, then getting the stock onto it. I'm getting quite excited now, I even have throwing dice for the first person who tries to rob us, improvised weapon right ;-)
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