An Apple Today

My little tip for today. Sometimes I have those. And trust me, they are little. But, after all, isn't it the little things that count?

When making lunches for my kids, I often want to put in apple slices with peanut butter. The dilemma is that if you cut up the apple into slices, they will brown by the time the kids get to them and who wants brown apple slices? If I don't slice the apples for them, I need to put a plastic knife in their lunchbox and hope they will bother on their own - which they inevitably won't, so the whole apple comes back home again in the lunchbox.

Here's the solution...I slice the apple almost all the way to the bottom, so it stays together. Then, I put a rubberband around it. This holds the apple together in the lunchbox, the inside of the apple doesn't "get air" so it doesn't brown, and the kids don't have to bother with the plastic knife.

I'm telling you, sometimes solutions are so simple it just kills me. Duh...you just have to use that little thing inside the head they call a brain.

Oh, and completely unrelated, Grace made up a little song this morning that's been keeping me going all morning.

Happiness
Happiness
Happiness Floats.

Happiness Floats. I love that idea. I visualize happiness as a wispy, low floating cloud, and that at any moment I might just walk through it, causing a sudden overwhelming warm feeling of happiness. Now who couldn't use that? Thank you Grace.