Are Your Kids Addicted to Webkinz???

Is it just me or have your kids gone over the deep end with the newest craze to hit the playground...Webkinz!!! I thought they were harmless enough, those furry creatures that you pick up in your local toy store. When we tried to get them the first time, they were totally sold out - I couldn't understand why, but I figured they'd eventually show up and we'd eventually buy them. And so, when we stopped by the store a week later, they were there, and we adopted four Webkinz (two for my daughter, two for my son) - my friend incidentally has 22, so four is pretty conservative if you think I'm being a bit overindulgent with my kids...but I digress.

We then had to fill out the adoption papers for the animals on the Webkinz website and then the kids started playing. And playing. And emailing their Webkinz friends. And playing games against their new friends. And decorating their Webkinz rooms, and earning Kidzcash and then, after my son spent all his cash on a TV, trampoline and toilet and wanted to buy a tub for his Webkinz cat, he ran out of cash. And he lost his mind.

He cried and cried and cried. And even as we tried to win more kidzcash for that damn tub, we'd have to play an entire year before he can afford it. I told him to try the Webkinz employment office but he didn't raise too much capital there either.

So now, we've got a room full of stuff, but no tub and every time he logs on all he wants is that damn tub. If anyone is reading this post and has a kid who owns a webkinz and wants to send my kid a tub as a gift (you know what I'm talking about), please reply and I'll send you back some online flowers.