….Thanksgiving

I hate Thanksgiving. Not the actual act of giving thanks. That, I think is important to do on a regular basis. However, this particular holiday is quite the depression inducer. Luckily, I have loads to be thankful for, so it’s easy to snap out of it.

I do miss my grandmother more on this day than any other in the year. Thanksgiving holidays in my family used to be something really special…loud, festive and warm family gatherings that I’d actually look forward to it…but it seems that now that all of us kids have grown up and moved all over the country, it’s more difficult for everyone to connect…so it usually only happens at Christmas (which after my birthday, is my absolute favorite holiday…and yes, my birthday is in fact a national holiday ).

At any rate I hope that you and your loved ones have a great holiday, and thank you for taking the time out to read my blog. I really do appreciate you, and am happy you stopped by. Have a safe and wonderful rest of fall!

Talk to you in the next one!

I Need a Vanity

That is all.

Useless Rant About Toy Packaging

I often wonder to myself why toy packaging is so difficult to get through…

Is toy theft really that bad?

When I was a little girl, all you had to do was peel back the cardboard from the plastic front, or just pull the top of a box open, pour out the contents, and play.

Today my little one and I went perusing at our local toy store. We left with a Power Rangers Megazord, and a transforming Optimus Prime truck. It seems like it gets more and more difficult, and unnecessarily complicated to get these things out of the packaging.

I could barely get my little scissors in to snip the Megazord free. And the truck…

oh my goodness…

hmmmmm….twist and pull?

Too bad I didn’t see that until the damage was done. But in my opinion, if you need directions to instruct people how to open your packaging, it obviously isn’t as intuitive as it ought to be.

Who the heck wants to fiddle with the packaging anyway?!

OK. Rant completed. I’m going to go play now, and you should do the same.

Bye now!