Game-changer

Don't you love when a positive game-changer is introduced to your domestic life?

Like, say, your mother-in-law showing you how to finally, FINALLY fold the fitted sheet so that your linen closet doesn't look like a war zone. Or when you purchase an upright mini-vac when your kid is already 18 mos old. Perhaps the day you figured out dried strawberries were a fine substitute for the real thing (during the winter). You know the moments I'm talking about. These moments can either make you feel like a genius (wow, that idea is brilliant!) or a dufus (duh, why did I not think of that earlier?!?).

I had another game changer recently. I was at my friend KS house for dinner with the kids. I noticed that on her kitchen table she had a vinyl table cloth. BRILLIANT, I thought excitedly. DUH, I thought densely. Of coarse. Vinyl + kids = no more washing 4 cloth table cloths in a week. Now, ask my why this was such a huge epiphany and my only answer is..."Hey, give momma a break!". I immediately went out and purchased two. Granted one is lime green and the other hot pink (Meijer doesn't carry the widest range of options), but they have changed my life. A little wipe with a cloth and a deep clean at the end of the day and voila! If I knew how to make one of those heart symbols appear [right here]....I would.