snack cups

If you use those little butter cups (like Brummel and Brown) or any similarly sized cups with a lid, you can make your own snack cups.  Just use a sharp pair of scissors or craft knife (be careful!) to poke a hole in the center of the lid.  Then cut toward the edge, not all the way through, making pie-shaped cuts  (you should end up with 6 pie-shaped flaps.  Next, cut the sharp points off the tips if the flaps, to save pinching those little fingers!  Voila!  This would be good to hold all those little pieces from games, too.

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Much needed break taken @ Wrightsville Beach

We spent a short, but very relaxing weekend at the Blockade Runner in Wrightsville Beach.  It was only 4 hours away, right on the beach, and within walking distance of restaurants and shops.  The room we stayed in was newly renovated and nicely decorated.  I think the shower needs redesigning (it doesn't close--that makes it challenging to shower a two-year-old without getting the floor soaked.  The AC was a bit noisy coming on intermittently through the first night, but I fixed that by turning it from "AUTO" to "LOW."  
It is amazing that it can be 100 degrees outside, but if you have a breeze at the beach, it is quite pleasant anyway!  We ate dinner the first night a 22Lumina.  Touristy, as expected.  The menu was a big chalkboard they moved from table to table.  Dave had the chicken and dumplings, I had the pink snapper Calabash, and Lily had the popcorn shrimp.  Everything was very tasty and fresh.  Lily made a little friend of a 1 year-old tyke named Max.  To be continued....