He is European, I am Asian.

Whenever he skips lunch to drive our kid or me to hospitals or parties, etc. I would pack him food which he can eat in the office when he gets back. One time I packed him noodles and included wooden chopsticks. Guess what? His officemates teased him that I forced him to use chopsticks instead of fork. Yada! I’m not Chinese, I eat with spoon and fork. The irony is, he’s the one who taught me to use the sticks.

Anyway, I bought some colorful chopsticks couple of weeks ago while shopping. Haven’t got the chance to use this yet. I wonder what his office mates will say when they see this:

Weekend drifted quickly. We weren’t even able to do some serious shopping except for this week’s food supply. Nonetheless, I was able to pick what would be a fun game to play in beaches or any wide open spaces; flying discs! Summer is fast approaching and beaches will be the famous hang-out, I took the chance to grab few pieces.

For only a little over $1 USD, kids and adults will have a grand time running and catching these flying discs. It’ll be a good exercise for the limbs too. Get one for yourself or your kids! It’s a cheap way of having fun!

Now is the best time to go shopping for next winter’s clothing! Why? Coz most stores are having sale and discounts on their winter stocks. They want to dispose of these products as much as possible coz winter’s going to end soon and they also want to sell new products next time.

This weekend I’ll be malling to check out the shops and see if I can grab some nice jackets or coats which I can use for this year’s cold days. Why don’t you share with me your shopping finds and escapades too?

We were at Ikea last weekend to buy some baby stuff. Of course I couldn’t help but buy few pieces of OTHER stuff for the house, to make the trip worth it coz it’s actually located far from where we live.

Before heading home, we decided to eat in their cafeteria as our tummies were already grumbling. There were plenty of high chairs for infants, so we were able to eat comfortably while the little one was having a grand time in her throne. But before that we had a little problem to tackle before settling to eat. The dad left the diaper bag where I stashed a canister filled with crackers for the little one. I looked at our ordered food of meatballs with french fries and the dad’s fried cheese, sadly those weren’t good for the baby. Achhhh and there she was, all eager to eat! What I did was mashed the french fries for the baby to munch or else we won’t have peace!

One surprising deal we got when paying for the food was that the second order came for free! We only paid less than $10 for the bottomless drinks, medovnik (honey cake)for dessert and two food set.

One last plus is that they have a small private corner where moms can breastfeed the baby. I gave baby a quick feeding before we left. We all went home satisfied.

This will be our subject example, an Eddie Bauer diaper bag which I’d like to have.

I first saw this bag at diaperbags.com with sale price of $34.98.  But I’m not sure if they ship worldwide so I “googled” this bag style hoping that other merchants deliver to countries outside US.

I was delighted when I saw it at Eddie Bauer’s official site, but their diaper bags links to the site of withcharacter.com.  I was surprised at their price, it was only for $24.99! See how much I saved? a huge difference of $9.99!  But it was only because I was looking for worldwide delivery service. 

Unfortunately With Character Kids don’t ship worldwide, so I have to find a way how to get it.  Maybe I’ll ask any of my US contacts to buy it for me and send it here in Europe.