am buying my wonderful kids $600 worth of backyard awesomeness. yes, i am compensating. but we're not spending all summer inside this year, oh no. plus, planning on staying where we are until we get money for our own house and build up our credit.

anyway, pretty excited. just waiting for Walmart.com to start working again so i can hurry up and get the stuff on its way.

daughter will LOVE it. we'll have her very own personal little park in our backyard. she'll have a tricycle, a fort with a slide and rock wall, an outdoor playhouse with all kinds of awesome stuff in it, and a water/sand table for sensory play. she's going to love it.

we've been meaning to get her all this stuff for the past year. but we have had the money since tax returns. just hadn't made up our minds if we were staying in this house for long enough that we could make use of all the stuff we wanted to get. but now, we can and we'll set it all up and i'm going to look into setting up a pea-gravel base so husband doesn't have to mow all weird around her playthings...