IKEA

This morning I drove Laura up to Dayton airport for her flight to England (via Atlanta) to spend time with our family. Roger, Jen and I are going in July. For those of you who follow my journal, I have kept forgetting to mention during the last week that Laura did get the job with Stepping Stones summer camp for special needs children. She starts her training on June 6th, and then the camp runs through the middle of August, about two days before she will return to University for bandcamp. So this was the only time she could go, and of course it does have the advantage of being much cheaper at this time of year - about two thirds the price we will pay in July! She had a long lay-over in Atlanta (we never like to take chances with short lay-overs, so as I write this she is somewhere over the Atlantic!

The interstate to and from Dayton took me past IKEA, so on the way back I stopped for a look around. We first came across IKEA when we were living in France many years ago, about an hours drive south of Paris, and there was an IKEA store at Evry which we frequented quite regularly especially during the early years. We lived in rented accommodation, and the first house we lived in for six years had no cabinets in the kitchen and no fitted closets in the bedrooms, so we bought kitchen cabinets, wardrobes, bookshelves for the living room and beds for the kids. We seemed to spend half our time in the early months/years putting furniture together! Fortunately, since we were there with the American company, they picked up some of the cost! The kids used to enjoy going too, as they would get to play in their play area!