Pepsi Wishes and Nanaimo Bar Dreams

I went out for a walk first thing this morning, which was cold but really nice. J made banana pancakes for breakfast, which were yummy but probably counter-productive.

I took L to a movie this morning - The Wiggles Big Big Show. She really enjoyed it, except for when she saw the concert audience on the screen holding up a Wiggles twisty light-thing. She owned one once, and it broke, which caused a great wailing and gnashing of teeth at the time. When she saw it on the movie, she remembered it, and spent a full minute sobbing uncontrollably into my shoulder. What can I say - she loves the Wiggles, money-grubbing jerkwads that they are.

We took a drive out to an open house outside town this afternoon, and I am really not sure if we ought to have gone or not. In short, we loved it. While it wasn't our absolute dream house, it did have all the elements, with only a few cosmetic changes or other upgrades. It had a huge front and back yard, and a jungle gym already in place. A beautiful deck, finished basement, three bathrooms... I really loved it. So much so that it made me almost unbearably sad. We just can't afford it. Even if our house sold tomorrow, we still couldn't afford it. We went to see it because we were hoping that the owner might be willing to lower the price a bit, which happens around here since sale times are slow. But the real estate agent told us that they have had offers already and aren't willing to budge. So really, all that we achieved by going to see the house was to remind ourselves what we can't have.

We don't have champagne tastes on a beer budget - it's more like name-brand pop tastes on a store-brand pop budget.

I'm going to go do what I do best at times like these: bake.