Tis' the Season . . .

Have you ever noticed that every Christmas present you buy always has all these required extras in order to make it work? You want to spend $50 on a gift, so you buy a fifty dollar gift. Then you spend $20 in cool accessories that it just wouldn't be complete without. Tyler & I actually experienced the funniest "suggestive selling" tactic ever while shopping for the kids at Toys R Us this season. We heard the last beep, beep, beep of the scanner and as the cashier reached up to hit the total button, she begins rattling off, "You need 24 AA batteries, 13 AAA batteries, 4 C batteries, & 1 9V battery." The computer actually kept track of it as she rang it up! The guy behind us in line cracked up as she rolled off the tally, and all I could do was finish her little jingle with, "and a partridge in a pear tree?" Just a little shopping experience to brighten your holiday season!