Wonderful poem about the importance of righteous parenting

Colon cancer support ribbons

A topic that has *recently* become close to my heart. If you can use these, please feel free to post them on your profile, or wherever.  Love to you and your loved ones from my family to yours. 

Just some random stuff I liked

Tooth fairy pillow

My son is about to loose his first tooth.  For a while now I have been trying to think of a way to make it special for him.  I have never been fond of the idea of trying to sneak into his room and get a tooth out from under a pillow without waking him up the tooth fairy having to look for a tiny tooth under his pillow.  I found a super cute pin for tooth fairy stationery, and in that post it showed a note from the tooth fairy in a pillow with the money.  (Get the stationery here ) So.... I totally copied paid tribute to that idea and made him his own.  Now we just have to wait for that tooth to come out!

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Monster knees!

My son is SUPER hard on the knees of his pants.  It used to drive me CRAZY... until I found this totally cute way to "fix" them in Family Fun magazine!  He loves them and now they will last a bit longer.  I used flannel and felt, hopefully he won't wear through them right away.  Even if he does, at least they got one more wear, right? =)

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Best way to peel/chop crayons

There are lots of great tutorials on how to use silicon molds and melt your crayons into shapes. This is not one of these. This is the best way to get the crayons out of the wrappers BEFORE you melt them and make them into better crayons.

Peeling and chopping with a knife is labor intensive and a pain in the...well hands. I thought to myself "Self, there has to be an easier way."

VOILA! I present to you...an easier way. Use a hammer. Start at one end and with a medium amount of pressure start whacking along the whole crayon. The wrapper should tear in one easy line, and the crayon inside is left broken up in perfect small pieces.

You should be able to dump the crayon out in one easy motion and have a whole wrapper to throw away instead of tearing off small ridiculous pieces.

Simple as that. You can divide your colors up easily (or dump them all together if you are going for a multi color look.

100th day of school treats

For the 100th day of school, I went to WalMart and got some of the "100 calorie" treats. I used address label to print "It's been a great" and "days in Mrs. Robbin's class" and stuck them above and below the 100 printed on the package. I also made my boy a 100 day shirt by cutting vinyl and sticking it to the shirt then spraying with bleach. It was cute and super easy. I blotted the bleach with a white towel so there were no puddles, then peeled the stickers off before washing.