Kitchen Confidential

Back when he was two, Jacob told us he wanted a Jeep for his third birthday.  He got two toy Jeeps, but apparently they were not really what he had in his little toddler mind.  He wanted an actual Jeep.  Or at least a kid-sized Jeep that he could drive around.

In the last couple of months, post-Christmas, he was telling me how he still wants a Jeep.  He’s also been keeping tabs on all the things Santa “forgot to buy” him: A play kitchen.  A climbing rope.  A whale rescue mission.  It was like a laundry list of everything he’s ever asked for during the four short years he’s been on this earth.

For the record, I’m fairly certain he wanted a climbing rope with a grappling hook that he could shoot at buildings/bunk beds and then climb up them.  I’m 100% certain the toy market does not have an offering of this nature with a “safe for 3 and up” sticker.  And also for the record, I read all about whale rescue missions on Amazon and the reviews were the pits.

Now, let us recall that just a few weeks ago, I still had an old white refrigerator taking up valuable space in my dining room… left over from our fancy camping days.  James finally got Julio to help him move it to the garage.

And then what happened?  Just as I had finally moved the entire kitchen out of my dining room?  I got the brilliant idea to move an entire kitchen into my dining room.  You think I’m kidding…

If you can’t have a play kitchen when you’re thirty-something, I mean 4 and 2, when the heck can you?  And yes, I did have my Craig’s List cast-off painted to match my new kitchen.  If I’m going to reinstall the fancy camping set-up, it’s most definitely going to be on-trend.