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Baby Safety Magnetic Cabinet Locks - Product Review

This review is from: Baby Safety Magnetic Cabinet Locks 6 Locks 2 Keys For Cabinets & Drawers Comes with 2 Safety Latches + 8 Extra 3M Adhesives + Ebook, No Drilling or Tools Needed- Easy Installation by Infantcity (Baby Product) I was in love with these from the word go - they were pretty easy to install and they're surprisingly strong. I appreciate that you don't have to look at them - so your kitchen isn't transformed into some sort of daycare. They're cleverly hidden and the kitchen still looks very grown up. The magnet/keys can be tucked away and out of reach and eyesight of little ones. Our older children figured out how to use them, and even our 2 year old has now figured it out, so it's not like some locks that even grown ups struggle with. Our youngest who is 1 is now safe to explore without getting into chemicals or other dangerous items. Another thing I really like is the ability to turn the locks "off" so you can still work around t...

Does My Sparkle Amuse You?

If you were a boat, the following could be said: When the waves are tossing you about and the turbulence is more than you can bear you return to port. Returning to the safety of the harbor where you find refuge and safety among others of your kind. Life isn’t entirely different than sailing. When a woman feels as if her very being is shattering – during childbirth – she calls out for her mother. Our natural instinct is to return home. Sometimes home is a town, a building, the loving arms of friends and family, and sometimes it is merely a smell or a memory. I place we long to be but can never find in the physical sense. I feel that way myself from time to time. I seek the camaraderie of a particular melody or the words of a poem. Today it was the lovely words written nearly one hundred years ago by poet Amy Lowell. I have a delightful text book from 1923 that describes Amy in the following way: No one has fought, in theory and in practice, the battles for the experimental a...