Quality Time

Yes, it's about time that I had some quality time outdoors with the family. So what better than spending a few hours with them in the car, shops and restaurant. Quality time is all about being there without nagging and without getting angry about something. Just thinking about happy thoughts. And yeah, no freaking screens/headphones aloud. 

So we start off in the car, the road to our nearest Ikea takes approximately 20 minutes. In the backseat, I almost played the whole ride with the cute little baby. We went to search for a sleeping bag for the little fellow but those items weren't on sale yet. I love the fact that I do influence my family about pricing and sale items. If it's not on sale, most of the time you can get a better deal online. 

Next stop is Ikea which is just a few minutes from the baby shop. I really forget how crazy it is with the elevator. Those things are just awful, they are crazy slow, walking the stairs is even better, healthier and faster. But with a baby it's not possible to choose the fastest route, it's always the safest route we have to choose. 

I was hoping to buy a flour sieve but that particularly shop didn't sell it and I ended up with buying a pan. It's kinda funny cause yesterday night I decided to throw our old pan (older than 6 years) away. Though we have another pan that one is kinda huge. The largest pit on our stove isn't big enough to fit it. So I bought a 20 cm diameter pan with 10 years of warranty. The great thing about it is that I can even put the pan in the oven. Hurray for me, now I have to find a recipe that inquire such pan. 

And of course when your in Ikea I always eat those cheap hot-dogs for €0,50 each and as a member of the shop a free coffee. Afterwards we rushed ourselves out of the store to get lunch at 2 o'clock in a supermarket with a restaurant/lunchroom in it. 

We ended each of us in a different row, we got sushi, Chinese and fried fish. The whole lunch together was under €30,- for four adults, even if I include the things we ate in Ikea. So it was great but it didn't meant our quality time ended here. The supermarket also offered wifi, so I immediately checked on sales item at that store. It's the only time I've pulled out my screen. So after browsing the store I decided to buy a fruit-tart for teatime.  

Getting back at home, I boiled some water and made tea. It's really nice to have a nice lunch and tea within 4 hours we spent. So that's what I do when having quality time out of the house. Next time, I don't know when, I will be writing about how I spend quality time indoors, at home.