I have been suspecting this for a while - but now I think it's confirmed. I have a serious addiction- I'm addicted to Target. I mean, like, I am always there. It's a great store. So today I was dressing my 2 year old daughter and I told her she has a pretty shirt "where did you get it?" i asked her. Promptly, without stopping to think she says "target"! Only when she said it it sounded like "tohgit" i laughed so hard everyone came running to see why and so I made her repeat it over and over again, and they all laughed. anyway, why do I love target? example: boys striped polo 3 button shirt: Gap 36.00, Childrens Place 18.00, Target 7.99 comparable quality. What's not to like?

I was gonna write a kvetch post about school ending and the kids being home and bored, but I just know that everyone will start mussaring me that I should be happy to spend time with them and some people wish they have kids and so on so I dont think I will bother.

Instead I will write a kvetch post on the topic that it seems to me that it used to be that camp/day camp was four weeks a trip but lately for the past few years they keep shaving off a day here and a half day there and now camp is only about three and a half weeks, and of course the price is going up, not down.
So that's annoying, because the summer is so expensive, it strains my finances every year. And yeah, I know, I am glad I have kids, I love them to pieces, and they are healthy and I could almost afford camps and tuitions...
I'm just saying...

I was standing on a long line yesterday waiting with my kids, and holding my two year old daughter, when suddenly she announces, appropos of nothing,
" I dont like Cheerios, I like oat squares"
She's so cute.

Later on I was trying to make dinner, and I thought I'd be a little creative and different, so I tried to make strawberry pancakes. First I blended the strawberries ( which my daughter calls suddybuddys) then mixed it with the regular recipe. Sadly, when I tried flipping them, they stuck to the pan so badly and I had to scrape them up in the process messing them up totally so that they looked ugly and completely unappetizing. after the fourth flopped pancake, I suddenly remembered I had an event to go to so I dropped the whole mess and got dressed and ran off, leaving the husband and family to fend for themselves... HAHAHA(evil laugh)

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I was talking to a 19 year old girl,(lets call her Leah) who is (sadly) finding out some of the unfairness and hypocrisy that goes on in UO society. To be specific:
Girl #1, lets call her Sara, grew up in a frum family where the father is still learning, the mother works once or twice a week, but one of the grandparents apparently has alot of money, so they have a very comfortable lifestyle. Sara's father hand picks the best chassan he can find for Sara - alla maalos, and mazel tov - theyre engaged! Big wedding, expensive gown, and everything...
They will be moving to Israel for five years, which of course means full support. They have an apartment in Israel that will be costing them a mere $1200.00 a month blah blah blah. Sara gets the learning boy, and the kollel life without having to sacrifice a thing.
Now we have Leah, who comes from a modest family, who may have to even pay for part of her own wedding expenses. She would like to marry a learning boy, too, and she is very willing to live with mesiras nefesh , work, and sacrifice some comfort for that goal, but sadly, she is not likely to get the learning boy at all, because her dad is not in a position to support her like Sara's dad (grandad) is. The eligible bachelors will likely find more "Saras" before they even consider Leah. She feels the unfairness of it - she , who is happy to live with mesiras nefesh is not going to get the learning boy , while Sara is.