Tuesday's Tip

i enjoyed hearing about all of you washing your strawberries.  my apologies to those of you i grossed out.  i still hold to the fact that the public deserves to be educated.  still, we've all been eating dirty strawberries all along, and if you've determined that strawberry dirt will factor into your pre-determined amount of dirt consumption, have at it.  feel free to walk on the wild side.

this week's tip takes me back to my love of recycling odd items around the house.  

how many of you still have these lying around?

if you don't have kids, you may not recognize them.  but anyone who's had a teething baby knows what they are.  these rubbery water filled toys are meant to be frozen (or kept cold) and then given to a pitiful teething tot with sore gums.  my kids used them.  they served us well.

the tip is that they still serve us well.  i still keep these little guys in the freezer because they are the perfect ice pack when someone bangs a lip, bumps their head, or bruises a shin.  i love them because they have handles, they don't make a mess as they melt, and they are reusable!!  i just throw them in the dishwasher and then back in the freezer for the next inevitable catastrophe.  

patrick just used one this morning on his puffy eye.  no injury - just woke up with a puffy, allergy-irritated eye.  thank you, baby teether thingy.

ironically, we use these nifty gadgets more now than we did when our kids were teething.