Here's a Handy Tip...

When you have been sweating your butt off trying to get kids in and out of cars in minus 20 degrees, just to get a break from the four walls you have been stuck in for 48 hours...don't take them to the grocery store without a list and a plan. And nothing to contain the 2.5 year old with. And then, when they walk around for 20 minutes and you tell the 2.5 year old she gets a "treat" for being good, don't enter Rite Aid, cruise the Valentine's Day crap aisle, and buy her a Dora lip gloss bracelet. Because then, the bracelet portion will break before you leave the store and the 2.5 year old will be sad. Then, you will realize that the "gloss" is not sheer but, in fact, a creepy bright pink. That stains. Everything. Then, they will dig their little fingers into it and wipe it all over their new shirt from Old Navy and their winter coat. And the car seat.
And you will think to yourself..why...why..why...