Tide to-go
This is an instant stain remover product packed in the size of a pen. I almost stopped wearing light-colored clothes to work altogether in fear that I’d get some embarassing smears from the kids’ fingers that I’d have to wear like a badge all-day at work… that is until Julia presented me with this cool discovery. She bought me this pen and another moist-towelette pack made by Shout that basically does the same thing (remove stains instantly from clothes). What a fantastic addition this has been to my purse!

3M Post-it® Self-Stick Sketch Pads
One of Nicholas’ teachers surprised him with a birthday pack of arts and craft goodies (all individually wrapped in different colored tissue paper) for his birthday and the products are really neat (even to me). The coolest of the bunch was this Self-Stick Sketching Paper that he can pull right off the pad to stick onto the walls. He doesn’t have to bug us for tape and he gets to decide for himself exactly where his drawings should go. Nicholas even drew a cute little picture of me (as a little girl) and Alex (as a little stick figure boy) holding hands encircled by a heart and posted it smack in the center of the headboard in our room. It was funny and cute at the same time.