Squishable love...

Love stuffed animals (or pancakes or teacups or tentacly Old Gods?) Love GIANT stuffed...stuff? If you haven't seen Squishables, well, you have my pity. But get to it!! Go to squishable.com right. Now. I've admired them for YEARS but have never been able to justify purchasing a huge stuffed beast. (They offer minis but really, part of the novelty is the sheer size.) Nor could I decide on just one anyway. Hedgehog? Narwhal?

And then I saw him. The Squishable Yeti. Yes.

Partly as a challenge to a relative who hates giving gift cards and hassles me when I say that's all I can think of, I said, "Hey, I finally thought of a 'thing' I want for Christmas...a stuffed yeti! I'll even give a second choice in case the yeti sells out...Arctic Fox." Booyah! How ya like that for an actual thing you can buy an adult relative? I might add she's pretty conservative and doesn't tend to shop outside her comfort zone of, like, housewares. (I did score a sweet vacuum cleaner from her several years back when I got my first single-mom apartment though, so don't think I'm ungrateful!!)

Whaddaya know...holy buhjeebuhmuhs...

 

*pics from Squishable, edited by me*

I brought BOTH of these guys home from Texas!! I internally took back EVERYTHING I'd ever thought of her uptight gifting believe me LOL. How sweet on so many levels!!

They are even squishier and softer than I'd imagined. Offspring is seriously eyeballing the arctic fox, but I'm all hay-ell no, boy! (Don't think him deprived. He has bushels of stuffed animals AND has plenty of Christmas dough saved. He can buy a Squishable for himself LOL.)

If I lived in my Dream House (I love my boyfriend, but refuse to stop imagining a solo dream house of my very own!) I'd totally get Narwhal and Seal (harp) too and just leave them on couches as throw pillows!

Holiday travels...

I'm so excited over the fact that the Offspring and I got to spend most of his winter break in Texas with family! We haven't visited in winter for, oh, seven years? Anyway, we had a blast with aunts and uncles and tons of cousins.
As always Mom and I did serious shopping- even if we're getting older and "shop 'till you drop" isn't so much of a joke now. Ha! I have much to tell about everywhere we went so more posts to come. But here're a little about the pics above...