Are you tired of picking up after your kids? A toy by the door, a magazine carelessly thrown on the couch, a video game console’s controllers all over the coffee table, a jacket on the floor… The mess is only half the frustration — the other half is that it happens constantly.
What if you confiscated these items and allowed your children to retrieve them only on a particular day? Call it your “Monday Turnover Box.” The rule: Any item that isn’t picked up or put away after dinner will be placed in the box. Kids (maybe even Dad) can …read more

I mentioned in an earlier post that I make Marshmallow Chicks for AJ and I have, successfully, in the past. This year, however, it was a catastrophe. From the moment I opened the sugar and poured it into the pan I had a mess on my hands, and on the stove, and the counters, and the floors. See for yourself.