"Mommy, look at the snow falling from the sky. Isn't it beautiful?"
"Mommy, I think Simon [the cat] is beautiful."
"What a beautiful necklace you have, Mommy."
• Love spending an afternoon making vegetarian chili and honey whole-wheat bread while both of my kids slept for three hours.
• Love the AMC show "Mad Men" (thank you, Netflix), even though I usually feel drunk and like I've smoked two packs of cigarettes after watching an episode (I'm not and I haven't). Dan and I are hooked.
• Love that I found a 2008 model of the Chariot Cougar double bike trailer on MEGA sale at REI today and bought it right there on the phone, to be picked up tonight. We've been hemming and hawing about buying the double ever since we found out we were pregnant last year, since biking is such a huge part of our existence (I don't know why we didn't just get the double right away for Jackson, but that was maybe just too much planning for the new parents back then). These things are not cheap so we tried to find a deal forever. They never come up on Craig's List and rarely show up at consignment shops (except that one time last spring when I bought one at Once Upon a Child only to learn later that night that it was stolen property and I had to return it...grr...). You can imagine my excitement when I found this one for not only less than the price of that stolen-used one, but 70% off retail. It was less than the cost of the single Chariot that we bought two years ago! This Biking Girl is WAY too excited about this. It's only January 9 and I'm already dreaming about biking with both kids.
love, friday
6 comments:
I am JEALOUS! We got a double burley (also an insanely good deal) the first time around, but the Chariot is *nice*. Do they have more?!
Two things:
1. LOVE Madmen too...we are totally hooked. We also get it through Netflix, which means we are a season behind...but don't care...LOVE it. Great show.
2. LOVE your Chariot...LOVE those things and Bobs (strollers) too...starting to research...just waiting for the day...
SCORE! Nice deal on that trailer! We use our Burley a ton and I am very much looking forward to being able to take it out again.
I'm continually amazed at how Catherine works it at retail!
Thanks Grampa for teaching her the ropes.
Those things do get stolen! I had one stolen when I ran inside to pick up Amelia from Montessori when she was three! (I ran after the guy Xena warrior Princess Like and tackled his friend to the ground and held him there until the police came!!) I got it back but then it was stolen from my porch a month or so later...I was a single mom in the city and it was my only mode of transporting...such a bummer. I moved to the country soon after.
Great buy!
You will LOVE biking with both kids!! I'm so sad as I'm pretty much missing out on family biking for two summers now...last summer being pregnant, and this summer Spinner will still be too small:-( I'm hoping for a warm fall so once he's hits that first birthday we can still squeeze in a few months!
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