I was off on a business trip to a technical conference this week, leaving last Monday and getting back late Wednesday. I brought back some freebies from the conference — I can tell I am getting old because now the freebies don’t thrill me, but instead represent time savings because the kids will like them and I don’t have to shop for them. Sadly, Corwin is a bit too old to really appreciate them, but for Charles I brought back three notebooks, two of them leather covered bound blank books with lined paper with “Ernst & Young” embossed on the front. For Alice I got a little book with post-its for pages on one side and little label sized post-its in various colors on the other. She and Charles loved their loot and 2 out of 3 ain’t bad.
On the other hand, I took the monitor from Charles’ computer for the trip (because it’s a special design for traveling and between trips we let Charles borrow it). Charles was upset when I mentioned this to him but after I got back he didn’t actually bring it up until this evening, so he can’t have missed it too much.
For Mom, I bought some T-shirts for the kids. What do you think?
