I consider myself a laid-back kind of mom, for the most part. I'm cool with letting the girls pick their outfits, willing to overlook the Cheerios in the crevices of the couch, to let my kids paint and play with Play-Doh at will. But there is one product I cannot stand: Magic Sand. A kind of always-damp, sparkly sand you're supposed to be able to mold into shapes. Except, it isn't as moldable as they show on the box (at least as far as I've seen). It's weird to have sand that always maintains this damp feel (even though it isn't damp)—which makes me wonder what the company who made it put in the stuff. And the sand makes a horrible, horrible, horrible mess.
The first time, we were silly enough to let our daughters play with it in our dining room. Six months later, we were still vacuuming up sparkles. We vowed to ban it from our house—except my aunt unwittingly provided our daughter with a deluxe set for Christmas.
We saved it for this summer, and let the girls and their friends go to town with it a few weeks back. And today, even now, I'm still trying to sweep away hunks of the purple stuff from our patio. I almost have to use my fingers to dig it up, tiny hunk by tiny hunk. This, apparently, is my mom's version of Kryptonite. And so I'm forewarning you—avoid the stuff like the plague.
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