I use butter often, but I don’t like trying to cut the butter into small bits in order to get every square inch covered. Then I had an “ah-ha” moment – why not grate the butter? It worked perfectly. The bits were just enough to add a butter flavor and I was able to get the butter to go further that way.
Another great use of the grater for butter – making pie crusts. With great pie crust recipes (like this one on allrecipes.com), you have to have a food processor to process the butter very finely while it’s cold. Instead, you can freeze the butter and then grate it and add it to the flour for pie crust. Works perfectly without the need for a costly appliance that takes up self space!
So before I tried to potty train my daughter, I didn’t understand why potty training was ALWAYS a hot topic of conversation among mother’s who are in the midst of it. Now I do. You might remember our last efforts to potty train our daughter. Well, after a week, she got the basics, but just didn’t seem ready and to be honest, neither were we. A friend of mine had successfully potty trained her son a few months ago with a method she recommended so she sent me the link to 
I love my Swiffer wet jet. I don’t like the cost of replacement cleaning solution. For the longest time, I thought they were impossible to open, refill and close again. But one day, I was able to unscrew it without a problem. So now I refill my wet jet bottles with Pine-sol and water. If you need a little help opening the bottle, try this 
When our daughter was about 4 months, a mother of a toddler gave me our first snack catcher. I can’t tell you what a life saver this thing has been! If you have a toddler and don’t have one of these, buy one. 
My daughter has been on 13 different flights and she’s about to take her 14th. We’ve purchased tickets to fly to FL at the beginning of June to visit my parents. Since she is under 2 years of age, she is still considered a lap child. I think over the last 13 flights we’ve flown with her, she’s had her own seat and sat in her own car seat for 10 of those flights. But we didn’t pay for a single seat for her – we’re too cheap.