Okay, okay, enough new posts today...

But seriously, what IS the etiquette for when you get a gift you don't want, or doesn't fit, or whatever? I kinda thought you smiled, said "Thank you", and went and exchanged it, or returned it, no?

We had an interesting exchange where half of the gifts ended up remaining with us, as OUR responsibility to return/exchange. Frankly, I'm not sure what to do with them... especially since I'd checked sizes before hand, and now the items are no longer in stock in ANY size (they were pretty popular, I guess), and one of the items was just "repetitious" to something they already had... and it's not too big a deal to return it, but I don't know what else it is I'm supposed to come up with to replace it now - I kind of thought the point was that if they returned it they could pick out something THEY liked.

Am I missing something?

p.s. Speaking of tapas recipes, anyone know any GREAT ones that they can send me before tomorrow when I go shopping?!? Just hit the "comment" button below...

:-)

I'm laughing. We got the girls walkie-talkies for Christmas. Phoebe is now old enough that she and Piper can go outside without us, and play around the neighborhood. However, our neighbourhood has just enough twists and turns that you can't then walk out and yell for them when you're ready for them. Other neighbors, in response to this exact issue, had gotten their kids walkie-talkies as well. So now, they go out with one end, and we keep the other. It's brilliant.

Actually, one of my neighbors had been sending their girls out with the dad's cell-phone, until they forgot to turn on the ringer and couldn't find them when they wanted them.

So how have we been using these walkie-talkies? Today Phil is outside with the girls, and I'm inside... well, posting here... (really, I'm cleaning up the kitchen, shhhh, don't tell!!!) and we're going back and forth about tapas recipes for tomorrow (New Years Eve) evening's get-together.

Yup, right, we got them for the girls.