Carlos built a cardboard model train today. Our friends gave him the real cool kit for his birthday. It’s from Japan! The instructions were entirely in Japanese of course, but that presented little challenge to Carlos’s deep understanding of train engineering.
When we were remodeling upstairs we carefully planned out the kitchen in great detail. After we moved upstairs, it took all of two seconds to realizes that we had forgotten to leave a spot for all the family organizing stuff (the grocery list, schedules, etc). So we found a spot (a little non-optimal, but fine) and I bought a dry erase board from Amazon to fit. Of course we wanted a good one. One that’s porcelain over steel so it would last and so it would be magnetic. And the good ones cost money. Ching!
We put it up and it was the ugliest thing ever. It did not go with our neo-shaker all natural and wonderful kitchen and living room.
I took my pliers and went to work to remove the existing frame. I and the the now completely blank piece of whiteboard went to the local framing shop and got them to frame it. Ching Ching!
They did a great a job and we put it up in the corner and it looks wonderful.
(The frame cost more than the whiteboard.)
P.S. The “security” picture hangers the shop recommended did add a lot of stability to the board.
Today was the big birthday day for CF. We had the party last Saturday at the local gymnastics school and had 20 kindergartners running around like maniacs. Great fun.
Today we had cupcakes at school and a quiet family dinner at the local Italian restaurant.
