This Little Toenails...

How do you do it? I am at my wits end in trying to get my 3 year old to cooperate with me when it comes time to trim her nails - fingers and toes. Tonight, for example, I had to "bargain" for five toenails in exchange for a small handful of smarties - and even with that "deal" - my husband AND I had to try to hold her down so I could get five toes clipped.

We used to have a problem a year ago and somehow worked through it to the point where she'd sit on Daddy and let me cut away...and lately - it's really just a fight from the second I get the clippers to the second we let her run screaming bloody murder...it's awful for her and awful for us...

So...for those of you who have been here and mastered the trick - PLEASE LET ME IN ON IT!! The only other idea I have is to get a mini-maglight and sneak in to do her other five toes when she's sleeping...ugh.

What Do They Say About Me?

Do you ever listen to your co-workers gossiping or talking trash about another co-worker who isn't around at that time...and then snicker about some shared animosity they feel towards that person? I hear it on a daily basis and it makes me wonder when I call in sick or am out of the office for whatever reason what smack they're saying about me. I'd love to be a bug on the wall one day...although if I knew the crap they potentially said about me, I might not be so nice the next day and that doesn't make for very pleasant working relationships, does it?