No surprise, life has been a bit nutty lately with work, a 6-month-old and limited childcare, an elementary school kid who keeps having 1/2 days and snow days, etc. etc. Luckily I've got some amazing grandparent babysitting (thanks especially for all the extra time lately, mom!) and a grocery store pickup subscription (here's looking at you for shopping my orders and adding on all my extra requests, Karen!) saving my life lately - along with a few random products that seem simple but are huge in the way they simplify life. Thought they all deserved an honorable mention here:
Also no surprise, several of these are baby-related items... The Mixie bottle is leftover from Hendrik's baby days, actually, and now that Freddie's partially on formula I got it back out (apparently not available any longer, but this and this look to be similar products with the same idea), and I need to sing its praises: you fill the little inner slot with powdered formula and the outer with water, and they stay separated until you push the button on the bottom of the bottle to release the powder, then shake up and feed. Brilliant to have such fast prep for a bottle, and to have something you can keep in the diaper bag all pre-measured and ready to go in an instant. I love this thing.
The pacifier clip saves my sanity of not picking up the thing from the ground all the time, plus Freddie is now quite skilled at putting it into his own mouth if in reach - which it always is with this! Not to mention that he really loves gnawing on this particular one, so it keeps him entertained all the time, such as when we've got to ride back and forth across town to do the school run. Also handy for that is the car seat cocoon cover, which is super warm and takes the work out of figuring out what to bundle him in, and saves time because it just lives on the car seat and easily unzips to get him in and out. Wasn't sure about buying one because this is just one season of a baby in a little car seat - but the daily use and ease is worth it!
Also worth it is multi-use products. I already like micellar water (+ washable cotton rounds) for cleaning off makeup at the end of the day because you just swipe with no need to rinse. Quick and easy which means I'm wayyyy more likely to actually do it. This Burt's Bees 3-in-1 does makeup removal, cleansing, and toning, which means that it puts me another step into the facial care routine, and again makes it more likely that I'll actually do the rest of the serum and moisturizer stuff. Clutch when I'm still going to bed really early because of really early wakeups to work/pump.
Minced garlic and ginger paste seem like pretty weird things to include on a product collage for a blog post, but wowza do I love having these in my fridge for making dinner - so quick and handy to have these ingredients prepped in advance that it really feels like a big step in getting a delicious dinner on the table quickly (not to mention that I really just don't enjoy mincing and peeling them in the first place).
So how's that for a random collection of life savers... What's saving yours lately?
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