Comments on: Never mind her bad table manners, check out those mouse skills http://allthatcomeswithit.com/archives/251 Wed, 07 Jan 2009 08:29:15 +0000 http://wordpress.org/ By: Ain’t no cure for the flat pack blues at All that comes with it http://allthatcomeswithit.com/archives/251#comment-1116 Ain’t no cure for the flat pack blues at All that comes with it Thu, 11 Jan 2007 12:48:21 +0000 http://allthatcomeswithit.com/?p=251#comment-1116 [...] Our most recent purchase has been a dinning table and chairs. I have previously said that we don’t have room for such luxuries in our rather tiny house. The only way we thought it could be done would be to knock down a couple of walls. It was during a conversation about the cost of this that I had a flash of inspiration. And lo and behold once I had shifted a bit of furniture around and taken off the skin on one finger with the IKEA allan key we now have a fully fledged dining table and chairs. No doubt we will spend many a quality evening sitting round it as a family, forsaking the television in order to bond over shared meals, games of snakes and ladders, and tales of what we did that day. Either that or it will become yet another surface to cover with our piles of crap. Either way is good. [...] [...] Our most recent purchase has been a dinning table and chairs. I have previously said that we don’t have room for such luxuries in our rather tiny house. The only way we thought it could be done would be to knock down a couple of walls. It was during a conversation about the cost of this that I had a flash of inspiration. And lo and behold once I had shifted a bit of furniture around and taken off the skin on one finger with the IKEA allan key we now have a fully fledged dining table and chairs. No doubt we will spend many a quality evening sitting round it as a family, forsaking the television in order to bond over shared meals, games of snakes and ladders, and tales of what we did that day. Either that or it will become yet another surface to cover with our piles of crap. Either way is good. [...]

]]> By: Kristina http://allthatcomeswithit.com/archives/251#comment-595 Kristina Fri, 15 Dec 2006 17:25:43 +0000 http://allthatcomeswithit.com/?p=251#comment-595 Hey, thanks for the ping. I wondered what British people did with all the toys that come with having young folks running the house! I think that not having all that extra space can be a good thing in many ways - it leads to less excess and commercialized living. We're back home in the states now, and waiting for final word on if and when we are moving to the "home country". Once we have more info, I'll start posting again. Hey, thanks for the ping. I wondered what British people did with all the toys that come with having young folks running the house! I think that not having all that extra space can be a good thing in many ways - it leads to less excess and commercialized living.

We’re back home in the states now, and waiting for final word on if and when we are moving to the “home country”. Once we have more info, I’ll start posting again.

]]> By: Shelli http://allthatcomeswithit.com/archives/251#comment-592 Shelli Fri, 15 Dec 2006 16:01:53 +0000 http://allthatcomeswithit.com/?p=251#comment-592 It is really fun to think ahead and try to figure out what it is going to be like. I remember about 12 years ago, one of the doctors told me that every exam room in the clinic would have a computer in it and that we would be doing all charting on the computer. I just nodded my head and said, "uh, huh," thinking he was out of his mind. Now, not only is that true, but we have parents who bring their laptops to the clinic so that they can get work done while they wait. I am not sure if this is a good thing or not. If it is me bringing my laptop, then it is good, but if it is the patients bringing theirs, then it is annoying. LOL It is really fun to think ahead and try to figure out what it is going to be like. I remember about 12 years ago, one of the doctors told me that every exam room in the clinic would have a computer in it and that we would be doing all charting on the computer. I just nodded my head and said, “uh, huh,” thinking he was out of his mind. Now, not only is that true, but we have parents who bring their laptops to the clinic so that they can get work done while they wait. I am not sure if this is a good thing or not. If it is me bringing my laptop, then it is good, but if it is the patients bringing theirs, then it is annoying. LOL

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