What a Great Idea

When I was in Cancun with my girlfriends we went out to eat several times and each time there was something available, all around the seating area I’d never seen before: a purse rack.   It was like a coat rack, only at chair height, for ladies to hang their purses on.   Here’s what they looked like:

This is such a great idea.   I’m always figuring out where I can put my purse.  Sometimes it will hang on the chair, but that doesn’t work on a lot of chairs.   Sometimes I put it beside my chair but that can interfere with traffic patterns.   Sometimes we’re in a booth and the cleanliness of the floor under the booth is in question or it’s cramped under the table.  With booths, the width of the seat can make having the purse beside me cramped.   There are all sorts of things we do as ladies to find a place for our purse given different seating scenarios.

But this purse stand is great.   It worked well everywhere we went.   I wonder if it will start to be adopted in the United States in the future?

The Big Boy Update:  My son and daughter like to have Alexa play something on the Amazon Show screen while they’re eating breakfast.   My son gets into the show and can lose track of time—but he’s responsible for getting himself ready for school to depart at eight o’clock.   This morning I could tell he was watching a Miles From Tomorrowland show that wasn’t going to end until two minutes before we left—and that wasn’t going to leave him enough time to get his teeth brushed, shoes & jacket on and icepack in his lunchbox and then into his backpack.   I paused the show and told him not brushing his teeth wasn’t an option.   So he multitasked.   He ran into the bathroom and brought his toothbrush and flosser back into the kitchen.   He got his lunch box ready and put his socks, shoes and jacket on at his chair.   He got everything done in time with a lot of running back and forth.   We’ve been working on complimenting him and even though it wasn’t my ideal way for him to get ready, I told him I was impressed at how he got everything done in time when we got in the car—right at eight o’clock.   Instead of getting in trouble, he was praised for his creativity.   It was a positive morning instead of a potentially negative one.

The Tiny Girl Chronicles:  My daughter had a paragraph she had to memorize for the Famous Americans event her class is having on Thursday this week.   She took memorizing her lines very seriously.   She reviewed and practiced for about a half-hour this weekend and got the lines down.   She has complete confidence for the upcoming event on Thursday in which she’ll be dressed as Amelia Earhart and have a button on her shirt.   When someone presses the button she comes to life and recites her lines.   She’s looking forward to having her father and me come to see her at school for the event.