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oytoys.com and moderntribe.com are great sources for the holidays. Target has had cute melamine pesach sets the past couple years that I use for the kids' table.

humidifier parts, refrigerator shelves and bins, oven racks, microwave carousel, outdoor/sandbox toys, teething toys, sponges and dish scrubbers, liquid soap dispensers, anything metal or plastic that's going to go into the recycling bin.

If you're worried about lead poisoning, move. Or have professional abatement done. (Which cost my SIL over $40,000 and 4 weeks in a hotel.) You do not want to expose your kids to lead, period.

All four walls and the ceiling are wood in my kids' rooms. It makes them very cozy. I also have no qualms about putting nail holes in the wood, so it has not limited my decor choices. The only drawback seems to be that spiders love wood.

Everyone tells you to "sleep when the baby sleeps," but I flipped it...I napped when the baby nursed (about 45 minutes) and worked when the baby napped (about 2 hours). I sat up in a glider with a boppy pillow while nursing. If I wasn't tired (yeah, right) I caught up on reading...no ipad or kindle back then, but that would have made one-handed reading so much easier. Also, the boppy pillow works better if you add long ties or velcro to the ends and tie/fasten it around your back. It'll stay put better.

You can make banana slices in heart shapes, too. Peel the whole banana, then cut a v-shaped notch all the way down the inside-concave length. Shave the banana into a pointed edge along the opposite length and slice. Your slices will be heart-shaped!

Made it for the big game and it was a hit. The sauce smells alot spicier than the meat turns out to taste, which was OK for my crowd but might be disappointing if you were looking for something with kick. Maybe less beef stock would help.

I would add, as the kids get older and the clothes are less onesie and more "outfit," especially for girls, it helps to fold the entire outfit together into one bundle. My daughter is the 5th girl to get our extended family's hand-me-downs and I love that my SIL keeps each outfit, including socks and hair clips, all together.

Instapaper. Lets you bookmark things in the cloud, so you have them on your laptop/desktop, ipad, phone, etc. You can choose to read the pages on the web or download as text to your device. You can organize the bookmarks into folders. I have a folder for work, one for researching my travel destinations, one for recipes, etc. Well worth the few dollars it costs.

If you go to the link, it has a pic of the closet, which is amazing...and practical.