Giant avocados

I've never seen these before. They are giant avocados. The ones on left are regular sized ones and they are already pretty big.

Next time that I am not in a hurry, I will buy one of these and see how they taste and how big the seeds are inside.

In comparison, look at the apples in background. Or the water bottle there.

Elmer’s Slime Starter Kit - What a disappointment!

I bought this kit since I didn't want to have to go find my own activating agent. The most popular one is borax. While it should be safe, I figured getting everything in a kit would be better.

But guess what? This starter pack contained just 4 bottles of glue and nothing else. I thought maybe someone else had opened the box before, but upOn reading the box more closely, looks like this was intentional. This starter kit is nothing more than glue and clever marketing to take advantage of the slime fad.

Look carefully at the ingredients needed panel. While it lists all the necessary supplies, it says in brackets that only the glue was included.

I mean, the other supplies aren't hard to find. It is just that for a starter kit, I was expecting that I can just open the box and make slime with the kids without worrying about anything else.

Using the brown packaging paper from Amazon Deliveries

When I order things from Amazon, I always get these boxes filled with brown packing paper. I used to just recycle these but wondered if there was a better use for them.

Not sure if they are clean enough to eat off of. At some chain restaurants, they lay out paper for kids to color on with crayons.

Turns out that they are great for handling messy art projects with the kids!  

No more needing to scrubbed down the table after with soap. Better yet, because these are long strands of paper, they stretch across the entire table. So they don't shift around like using newspapers.

Volume limiting headphones are a goner

I bought these for the kids last year. Each of the 3 kids have a pair.

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What is nice about these is that they max out at certain volume, no matter how loud it is set on the device.  Kids tend to underestimate how loud things are, and we certainly don't want permanent hearing damage from listening to music too loud.  Plus, when the volume is too loud, the kids won't be able to hear me when I address them.

Today when I went to help my middle child plug it in, there was just the bare wire and the jack was gone.

The jack wasn't still dangling from the iPad so no idea how the wire and the jack was torn apart.

Is it worth fixing this? It seems such a waste to throw out an entire headphone just for one broken spot.

I googled it. Looks like you can buy a headphone jack replacement. But it requires soldering. Then the question becomes how much stress can it take afterwards. I bet you that since it is right at the jack where the kids willing constantly push it and yank it out, unless the wires were pinched into the replacement jack some how, this would break again very quickly.