Dabbling Divas

A couple years ago my husband taught me a little trick with super glue and baking soda.  He said if you need something to really hold and super glue isn’t working try this.  I had a wood baby gate that was broken.  He got some super glue and put a big glop around the area that was broken, the sprinkled it with baking soda all around till it set.  It stuck and held it back together again.  It lasted a good couple of years till we were done but it held up rather well.

I would recommend the super glue in a tube that you have to squeeze out not the one that has that little point that you need to press to make it come out.  You’ll be there all day with that one.

Doesn’t it drive you mad when your kids get gum in their hair!?  Yesterday I was watching a show where they took several “tips” on how to remove gum from hair.  We had the old school ice cubes, nah didn’t work and people werent too peachy about using it.  Then came the peanut butter, which worked wonderfully and I have used that many of times and will use it again if needed.  However, the thing that worked the best and is preferred, was cooking oil!  Of course you have to let it sit for about 20 minutes or so, but that gum just slid right off.  So whatever your preference is, at least you know, you don’t have to freeze your fingers anymore with ice!

You know how we hear about miscommunication all the time?  Well let me tell ya!  It can be mind blowing when ONE single word can change things!  Recently there was some miscommunication between my husband and his father. Not anything argumentive but just mind blowing. 

While my husbands father was visiting about two weeks ago, the dreaded conversation of money comes up.  My father in law starts up with it again, just like every single time.  My husband oh so the wonderful man he is says, if I had $10,000 I would give them to you.  So the conversation changes through out the day and my father in law leaves.

 Days pass and my husband is not so himself and I asked him what was wrong?  He said, that his dad called and that my father in law and sister in law were talking that he was going to call my husband and take him up on that money.  My husband was floored!  I said WHAT! Rewind just a bit.  My father in law heard wrong!  He thought my husband was giving him $10,000 buckaroos! My husband replied, with dad I was saying “IF” I had that I would give it to you, I didn’t say that I “had” it. 

So one single word my friends can blow your socks off!  So lets listen carefully and speak clearly, we don’t want people thinking something else.