Elo Top Stop, 10-Inch Silicone Cover Microwave Collapsible Food Cover,

The practical universal lid made of silicone. Ideal for daily use. During food preparation, the lid acts as a helpful covering for your pots and pans, preventing dangerous fat splashes. It is also ideal for use in your microwave as a cover for your dishes - and when your food is ready, the airtight lid will keep it fresher for much longer. Of course, the ELO TopStop/TopStop Quattro complies with all LFBG directives. It's a truly ingenious invention - once you start using it, you won't know how you ever got along without it!

I have so few pictures of my parents when they were young, but these are two of my favorites..I guess I really don't have to tell you that I didn't take these =)


Below are some fun facts about 1957, the year these pictures were taken!

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There are 47,200,000 TV sets in use in 39,500,000 homes.

Leave It to Beaver premier's on CBS that depict the ideal American.

Leonard Bernstein's West Side Story debuts on Broadway and brings violence to the stage.

Top Movies: The Bridge on the River Kwai, Twelve Angry Men, Sayonara, Peyton Place, Witness for the Prosecution, Around the World in 80 Days, Friendly Persuasion, Giant, The King and I and The Ten Commandments

General Foods Corp. introduces TANG breakfast beverage crystals.

Barry Gordy, Jr. invests $700 to fund 'Motown Records.'

The Pink Flamingo!

Houston, we have a problem...Sputnik is launched.

Britain becomes the third nation to join the "nuclear club" with the explosion of an atomic weapon.

Elizabeth Taylor's 2nd. divorce (from Michael Wilding) and 3rd. marriage (to Mike Todd).

Please Don't Eat the Daisies by Jean Kerr is a book smash! The movie starred Doris Day and David Niven.

The Frisbee is renamed and nationally marketed

One thousand computers are sold. And not one of them had a Windows operating system.

On September 4, the last game is played at Ebbets Field in Brooklyn as the Dodgers prepare to move to LA. On February 23 of 1960, they tear the stadium down. Days that will live in infamy!

Wagon Train debuts on TV.

The National Geographic announces that it has found the resting place of the H.M.S. Bounty.

American Bandstand goes national on August 5, 1957 with Dick Clark as the host.

Elvis Presley emerges as one of the world's first rock stars. The gyrating rocker enjoys fame on the stages of the Milton Berle, Steve Allen and Ed Sullivan shows, as well as in the first of his many movies, Love Me Tender.

Humphrey Bogart passes away 1/14/1957.

5,000 new products will hit the supermarket shelves, including frozen pizza.

Theodore Geisel writes Cat in the Hat as Dr. Seuss!

Margarine sales take the lead over butter.

Williams-Sonoma opens in San Francisco.

Better Homes & Gardens prints its first microwave-cooking article.

It was craft night at Amber's (soon to be Jack's too!) nursery tonight. Lots of glitter, glue and paint. Both kids had a blast although after the first ten minutes or so, Amber just wanted to play with the slide in the baby room and didn't do much making at all!

Have to admit to not taking the top right photo of Jack (it's my hand in the frame!) but it was too cute to exclude. Have processed every shot differently just to see how it looked and I rather like it!

1. Jack plays with the dangly sparkly ceiling decorations
2. Amber and Jack get busy sticking pop up angels
3. Jack has a go at decorating a door hanger (and his mummy's arm!)
4. Amber gets a bauble all glittery
5. Amber gives up on the making, lays the table (after microwaving the wooden banana) and has a chat on the phone...
6. Back home, Jack REALLY enjoys the chocolate spread sarnie I made for Amber...

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