Works for me Wednesday...(stop kids coughing at night)

Last night was a long night with one of my girls up coughing and complaining of a super sore throat. 
I am so thankful that a couple of years ago I learned of this remedy to stop your children (or your own) from coughing in the middle of the night...

Here's all you do:

• Get Vics Vapor Rub ...( you know the one that our moms used to put under our nose to keep our noses from running)
• Rub generously on the bottom of your childs feet...layered thick
• Put socks over the top to keep it from getting everywhere...And like magic your child stops coughing!!!

This is something that you can even do while they are sleeping and they don't wake up!  I have used this for a couple years now and everyone I recommend it to, swears by it. 

Just thought this might be the right time of year to learn how to stop your children from coughing all night.

Go to Kristin's site to see what works for other people.

Works for me Wednesday...Online Shopping Coupons

I love participating in Works for me Wednesday. It is an awesome blog carnival hosted by Kristen at We Are THAT Family. I love seeing other blogs and have found some really cool blogs from it. I have also benefited from others finding me on there. If you have a blog, I strongly suggest you participate. It is a lot of fun and a great way to meet others.  This week’s edition of Works for Me Wednesday is about doing the opposite. Instead of sharing your tip, you ask for others' tips. This could not have come at a better time. I am in need of some of your tips. And since I have the smartest (and coolest) women that read this, why not ask you?

So the TIP that I am hoping to learn more about is...

Online coupons?  I have heard many people talk about all of the free stuff and discounted stuff you can get on the internet if you know what you're doing...and well I don't.  So I am hoping you will fill me in on your experience with online coupon clipping.

Please link up and participate in this awesome carnival with Kristen

Works for me Wednesday...

For this Works for me Wednesday, I have two things to write about.  First, I have 6 year old identical girls and as much as I would love for them to keep their adorable outfits clean, they don't.  When they get home and they have something on their clothes, I instantly have them take it off and in the laundry room I always keep a bottle of dye free dishsoap...I put that all over the stain, fold it over and let it sit there until the next load of laundry.  Then I throw it in there and it comes out perfect.  That has saved many items of clothing.
Second, the thing that helps me clean my microwave is so easy and works so good.  I get a coffee cup, fill it 3/4 of the way full and then microwave it for about 3 minutes.  The steam that is created by the cup of hot water loosens everything on the microwave and when you are done, you can take a wash cloth and just wipe everything out.  It works perfect!
Those are a couple of things for my Works for me Wednesday!  For more things that work for others, click here.

A fun Halloween craft...

When working in the classrooms (my twins are 6 and in first grade), it's fun to know some inexpensive crafts that you can do quickly and that really WOW the kids.  This is one that I found to be a great success. What you will need:

• A salad spinner (The Dollar Store usually has them cheap)
• white cardstock paper
• orange, black and possibly green paint (you can find this in the bottles at The Dollar Store)
• orange glitter, black glitter and possibly green glitter
• containers to hold very watered down paint
• plastic spoons

The night before volunteering in the class, I would find a really cool pumpkin outline and print it on all of the cardstock.(1 per child in the class).  This will be used for them to cut them out.  (Another idea would be to print out a couple, cut them out yourself and ask them to trace that pumpkin and cut out their own.  Depending on the age of the class).
Then you would take the paint and squeeze a medium amount in each container, add glitter (a fair share of it) and then add water and mix it up.
When you get to the classroom, you would ask the students to cut out the cardstock pumpkin and put their name on the back.
Then one by one, you place the individual pumpkin cut out in the salad spinner, ask them to put how many colors and the amount of paint they want on the pumpkin in the salad spinner. (Keep in mind the glitter is in the paint and I found that works the best instead of adding glitter after the paint).
You then place the salad spinner lid on and ask the child to spin really fast for about 10 seconds and when they open it up, it looks like spin art.
They love it and each one is very different.
You can do this for any holiday with any cutout...for example:  a christmas tree, valentine heart, shamrock, easter egg, etc.
The clean up is very simple as the paint is a water based paint and will come off of everything.
Happy Spinning!
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