Wednesday, December 5, 2007

12-5 Ten tips from last week

1. When you don't put the kids' names on their mittens at daycare, the mittens disappear.

2. When you do put the kids' names on their mittens at daycare, one mitten disappears.

3. Kohl's does not have kids' waterproof mittens.

4. If your kids use a night lite, always have extra night lite bulbs on hand - or an extra night lite.

5. When someone sets up a "quick" nature hike through the woods with the kids, first find out how long the hike is really going to be.

6. Gingerbread men somehow always end up getting their heads chewed off first.

7. When you hire a landscape company to do a Fall cleanup to get all of the leaves off your lawn, make sure it gets done before the first snowfall of the season happens.

8. Kids absolutely love the first snowfall of the year.

9. Let the kids put whatever ornaments they want on the tree - then re-arrange them while the kids are sleeping so the ornaments don't break.

10. Its easier to wrap Christmas presents when the kids are sleeping - young'uns don't understand gifts to relatives that need to be shipped weeks before Christmas.

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