No fair me taking credit for this one since I learned it from the kids’ mother; then again, she can start her own blog, right?
Here’s the hack: we always keep 4 or 5 juice packets (Capri Sun) in the freezer. She started doing it for the kids’ lunches — it would keep everything in […]

This is brilliant: a simple mnemonic device for kids to learn how to set a table correctly. FORK and LEFT both have four letters; KNIFE, SPOON, and RIGHT all have five. So the fork goes on the left, the knife and spoon on the right. What’s more, they’re in alphabetical order: (F)ork, (K)nife, […]

FinanceIsPersonal.com offers up some advice for cutting your grocery bills. The advice is good enough, but I doubt it will help much. One thing I disagree with is that Wal-Mart is cheapest — there’ve been a couple of studies that show very little savings on the overall grocery bill between Wal-Mart and other […]