Busy Saturday running errands.......

Spent most of Saturday running errands. Had to pick up the rug we bought, that I posted about here.  As it is 9' x 12' it means we have to clear out the dining room to put it down.  The dining room is 10' by 15' but as we have the large table that seats 8 we were finding the 8' by 10' rug in there too small, length wise.  I will post a photo when we have it laid.  The good thing about this rug it is top quality and if we move it will go anywhere.

I ordered dh some winter boots on December 26th, and to cut a long annoying story short two pairs finally turned up on Friday, so had to go and pick one of the pairs up.  Needless to say I don't have a lot of good things to say about this company, especially the online division of this chain.  Their online customer service division sucks!!!

Dh wanted to call into a store called Sayal Electronics to pick up something.  Now that type of store typically bores me, however I found it very interesting as they had all sorts of educational toys in there, to do with science.  I picked the three older grands up a new place mat each, a dinosaur one, a map of the world one and flags of the world one.  Told dh we need to go to the bigger store's nearer Christmas as they have such interesting things in it for the kids.

Went to Walmart and bought a new doormat, it's not the best quality but it'll do for the winter:

Then hit up the dollar store to get all the birthday cards for February and a craft to do with Nora next Friday as she has a PA day at school.  Love the dollar store for things to do with the kids without spending a small fortune.

We had lunch out at a place called Jack Astor's.  We haven't been in that restaurant for years, but were pleasantly surprised at the quality of food.  We had Crispy Broccoli Caesar Bites, as we had a coupon for a free appitizer, they were greasy and would not order again, luckily it was free.  Dh had the Chicken Clubhouse with fries and I had the Chicken and Goat Cheese Sandwich with salad for our mains.  Both were excellent, top quality and would order again.  Here is the menu.  I will say we found the place expensive; $3.99 for a soda/pop is crazy.  I always order water, dh won't.

All in all we had a good few hours running errands and spending time together, with me doing what I love to do, shop 😊

Family Rug........

Once upon a time, there was a family who went out and bought rugs for their respective homes.

First it was the daughter who purchased the rug for her living room.

The mother and father admired it and decided they would like one for by their front door.  They ordered it and lo and behold it turned out they had ordered the same colour as the daughter.

Son and wife were visiting the same store and saw a beautiful rug on clearance/sale and thought that it would look perfect in their dining room.  They brought it home and it turns out it is the same colour as sister's and parents rug.

Son's wife's parents saw the rug and loved it also, so they went out and bought one.......this time though in a different colour, and I think it was for the laundry room.

Mother and Father needed a new rug for their dining room and after searching high and low decided that the rug they wanted was going to be the same rug as the rest of the family; BUT they would get it in a different colour..............

When the parents got to the store and saw the colour of rug in real life (chili), they HATED it, so decided to stick with the tried and true colour.

Their rug should be here in a couple of weeks and they will be very happy.

That is the story of the family who all love the same rug.  THE END

Here is the rug, which you too can buy from Pier One as well. 

Ours are all in the teal colour and it is a very hard wearing rug which will last for years.