On Sunday, we took a little field trip to Ikea. I love Ikea, I can't help myself. For those of you who've never had the pleasure of visiting our little elf house covered in dog fur, it's a tiny little cottage, not unlike, I often imagine, the same type of cottage where the three bears lived. It was built in the 40's as a summer house for some of those fancy pants types in Washington D.C.. Over the years, people have added onto the house, but it's still a little place with narrow doorways and small rooms. I can't actually shop for furniture in traditional furniture stores, 1) because we can't afford real furniture and B) Real furniture is built with the giant McMansions in mind so none of it fits in my little 3/4 size house.
But Ikea. Ikea is furniture built for people in small apartments - for trendy, chic, young, upwardly mobile people who have a definite sense of style. In other words, people completely unlike me. However, their furniture fits in my house so I love it there.
On the way over, the Pickle asked what Ikea was. When I told her it was a Swedish furniture store she looked a little confused and so I asked her if she knew who the Swedish were.
Her face lit up and she answered, "Yes! Those are the people who celebrate Hanukkah!"
Excellent.
By the way, it just occurred to me that if the Pepper grows up and decides to attend medical school she'll be "Dr. Pepper."
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LOL Great! Sweed-ish, Jew-ish - what's the difference? Ahhh... someday when she's older you have to tease her about that! And by her I mean, possibly, Dr. Pepper :-) So funny!
BTW: IKEA is the only furniture that fits into our elf sized CO house also :-) Only I think of ours as a hobbit house because we read The Hobbit so often! Unfortunately we don't have IKEA here... yet. The rumor is they are coming sometime this year to Denver. Fingers crossed!
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