My husband is a very inside the box thinker -- he's practical, calculated, deliberate, purposeful...you get the picture, he's a very 'type A' personality -- which makes him perfect, in my opinion, for the military and as my husband! Sometimes, I think he is so far inside the box that he is actually outside of it! Which is why I shouldn't have been so dumbfounded by the genius of this:
It's so simple, so obvious -- poke a straw through the foil of a yogurt cup and voila! no mess!!! Why didn't I think of this!? Why would this have NEVER, in a million and one years, even crossed my train of thought!? I thought I was supposed to be the creative one!? Even more concerning was the matter-of fact way my husband took out the yogurt and plopped in a straw....as if we had been poking straws through yogurt foil our entire parenthood! Quite the contrary actually, before this stroke of genius swept through our kitchen, I literally planned my kids' yogurt consumption around 1. what outfits they were wearing 2. how close we were to bath time 3. whether or not there was any chance someone from the public might see my kids after they ate their yogurt....
I just stood there, with my jaw on the floor, stunned. My husband just cured my yogurt heartburn!! It was as if I fell in love all over! And him, none the wiser, stood there with a giant grin on his face, loving the the fact that he, in the blink of an eye (and probably, oddly, without much forethought) just became my hero, again! ...It's not often he's able to out 'McGyver' me :)
I just stood there, with my jaw on the floor, stunned. My husband just cured my yogurt heartburn!! It was as if I fell in love all over! And him, none the wiser, stood there with a giant grin on his face, loving the the fact that he, in the blink of an eye (and probably, oddly, without much forethought) just became my hero, again! ...It's not often he's able to out 'McGyver' me :)
And who knows, maybe you all are reading this right now, and saying 'duh, i've been doing that since the beginning of time...' But to me, it's news! Wonderful news! Now, I will bravely walk up to the dairy case and grab 'regular' yogurt, breaking my strict Danimal/Gogurt policy (because they are the least messy of all the yogurts). I will confidently poke that straw through the foil of a Yoplait and leave it in front of my toddlers, no longer having to hold the straw in the cup or spoon feed it to them. Heck, I may even start taking yogurt with me in the car as a snack! Yes, I am THAT excited about this :)
Now, if my husband could contrive a way to get spaghetti from the plate to the mouth without half of it ending up on the floor, walls and ceiling....
Now, if my husband could contrive a way to get spaghetti from the plate to the mouth without half of it ending up on the floor, walls and ceiling....
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