Today the kids, particularly Alice and Charles, helped me achieve something that I have never managed before — to completely use up a box of staples. Before children, I used staples so rarely that I would lose the stapler, the box of staples, or render the staples unusable through some accident, long before the box was empty. But today, little Alice came in to work on a project and I was able to put the last two blocks of staples in to the stapler. I had previously used up all the broken rows so these last two were in pristine condition. Oh, what a proud day!