July 18: Bean Bag Chairs

We're doing some "renovating" in the kids' rooms, and today we added bean bag chairs to the mix. Both kids have these mini chairs they received as gifts a few years back, but they've both kind of outgrown them. I have fond memories of bean bag chairs from my childhood. And, yes, by revealing that little tidbit I am dating myself. However, the chairs have changed some since my days with them; specifically, they're a lot fuller then I seemed to remember and they have a new safety feature: glue on the zipper. I guess that warning about children suffocating from the filling was not just a precautionary message. My daughter knew all about bean bag chairs from "iCarly", and, of course, an opportunity to have something that Miranda Cosgrove finds entertaining, albeit on a fictional TV show, was quite appealing to her. I'm not sure my son knew exactly what a bean bag chair looked like, but once he got his first glimpse he was sold! So, we dragged both chairs around Meijer in a cart as we picked up a few extras for the week, and then came the task of getting them both into the back of the Vue; which was not an easy task for the record. But, in my opinion, the bean bags put the finishing touch on both of their rooms! Now, if I can just figure out how to remove the glue from the zipper so I can eliminate some of the filling from my daughter's chair, life will be good.