Kids and the City

Mabel’s Labels Giveaway!

We all know by now, hopefully, that having kids means having stuff. It doesn’t seem to matter if you have one or eight kids, little by little their stuff will creep into your life, your kitchen, your wine glass . . .

Come on, am I the only one who has ever found a Polly Pocket bikini top in my wine glass?

My friends and I fondly refer to the litter of children’s things which seem to take over our homes as shrapnel. As in, kid shrapnel, and it’s everywhere! Be it the offending Lego that you so often step on with a bare foot in the middle of the night, or the whoopee cushion that just so happened to find itself on the seat of your favorite reading chair, this kid shrapnel can be a dangerous thing.

So the question remains, for all of us parents out there fed up with the kid shrapnel, what to do with all this stuff and how the heck do I organize it? 

Ta-da!  Mabel’s Labels!  I have found, in all my years of trying to organize three kids, no better solution to keeping track of what belongs to what child.  Plus, the labels are adorable, durable and available in a rainbow of colors - each with your child’s name and icon of choice on them (my kids have a skull, a turtle and a princess).  Sure, no label can completely eliminate the kid chaos and shrapnel, but they make organization a breeze, which, in turn, keeps the house a little more shrapnel-free!

Mabel’s Labels are the perfect solution for labeling everything from a skateboard (the first place my 11-year-old put his) to a sippy cup.  No need to worry about them falling off, because they are dishwasher, microwave and kid-proof!

I was so excited when we got our labels in the mail, that I went around labeling everything.  I put labels on books, cups, lunchboxes and even their Gameboys!  The clothing labels are especially handy, since my oldest will be going away (can I hear a hallelujah?) next week for summer camp and now I don’t have to worry about him losing any clothes.  He is just happy to have his skateboard labeled because, you know - skateboard theft is a huge concern of his.

Best part ever?  I am not going to keep all this labely goodness to myself (I know, shocking).  Mabel’s Labels wants to give YOU the chance to win some labels of your own!  All you have to do to enter is leave a comment on this post.  We will be giving away a Mabel’s Labels Camp Pack, which consists of 15 Sticky Labels, 40 Iron-Ons or 50 Tag-Mates (your choice), 8 Shoe Labels and 2 Bag Tags, to one lucky reader on Tuesday, June 24th!  Deadline to enter is 7:00pm (Pacific time) on Monday the 23rd, so don’t forget to leave a comment. 

TIME’S UP!  WINNER WILL BE ANNOUNCED TOMORROW, 6/24 AT 12:00PM.  THANK YOU TO EVERYONE WHO ENTERED!

Carrie Blankenship is the mother of three (four, if you count her goofy puppy).  She writes her way through motherhood at Stop Screaming I’m Driving! She accepts bribes of lattes (especially Starbucks) and offers of free babysitting.  If you’re really lucky, she may even do your laundry.  She can be contacted at carrieb-at-seattlemomblogs-dot-com.

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