[kelly]

My dream is to line my sons' new bedrooms with Billy Bookcases! Our home is filled with IKEA from kitchen cabinets to lighting and PAX. My husband and I are big readers, and an important part of the boy's new bedrooms is a space for them to read, work and display what's meaningful to them now. Billy will be the home for a preserved juvenile shark, a tiny bird's nest with bits of shell inside, binoculars and books of all kinds.

What will be really great is how different each of them can make Billy look with all the options- one wants the red bookcases and the other wants medium-brown with Byom glass doors.

It's also important to us that the materials we put in their new bedrooms do not off gas formaldehyde and other noxious chemicals- definitely not a gift we want to give our kids. We're really happy that we have an IKEA near us so we can make our kids' rooms look great and still be responsible (saving for college and not fill their rooms with poisonous gases!).

But mostly, we really need a home for that shark.

[Chuck]

Silly Kelly/Plain Kelly.

Do they not have pet shops in Minnesota? Here in Philadelphia, these things come in all sorts of sizes. And this one even does double duty - you could do an entire herb garden in the right size tank. Especially if your shark is named Peaches.

[Chuck]

Have you ever tried a bit of juvenile shark preserves on a slice of toasted 7 grain bread? Man, is that ever good eating!

[kelly]

Chuck, you've really nailed it there- the shark IS good eating. That's why we need a home for it- TO PROTECT IT from the ravages of juvenile McGuyvers. Right now, they're testing the glass with their teeth...