I'm certain I read this some time ago in a magazine, Good Housekeeping or Real Simple, I think.  I just wanted to share with you -- and show you -- what a great idea this is. Mainly because it's a no-cost solution, and who doesn't love ideas for freebies in this economy?

Forget spending anything on fancy organizers for your junk drawer, sock drawer or underwear drawer. All you need are lightweight cardboard boxes used as food packaging, like cereal boxes.

I used this idea to organize a drawer filled with kitchen utensils and cooking gadgets.

All it took was a Cheerios cereal box and two Quaker oatmeal boxes. I measured and cut them to fit in the drawer.  They neatly store everything.

I'm always looking for inexpensive organizing solutions (free is even better!) to try. Care to share any ideas?

Last week was a bad week. I had a migraine followed by a nasty cold that left me bedridden for several days. It sucked lemons.

The first day actually went by really fast because I spent it asleep. I was so battered and weak, that was all I could do. The following days, however, were really tough. I knew I had to stay in bed, confined to our bedroom, to recuperate and avoid getting the two little ones sick. But I became restless.

If we had a television set in our room, I could have easily spent the entire time glued to the tube. But our room is a no-TV zone.

So I read the paper. I flipped through parenting magazines. I watched a couple DVDs on my laptop. I went on Facebook and Twitter. I browsed the Web -- for whatever. Sometimes I found myself just staring at the ceiling.

This lasted for just a few days, but it drove me absolutely mad. It made me wonder how other people -- like women with high-risk pregnancies, for example -- manage being confined to their beds for weeks, even months.

Have you ever been bedridden? What happened and how did you spend your time? What activities helped keep you sane?

The entries took many different directions this week and it took us a while to decide on a winner. For some reason, captions in the form of questions seemed to work particularly well for this photo, and we think appagom found the best phrasing.

Here are the Top 3 this week:

1. "Is there matching eyeshadow that goes with this?" — appagom
2. "Chocolate kiss anyone?" — cami68
3. "Got chocolate?" — RRRR

Congratulations appagom! You've been posting captions for months now and you've gathered a bunch of second and third places along the way. This week, the gold is yours!

RRRR's winning streak was broken this week but she still has the second spot in the overall medal count, with her four golds, one silver and one bronze. cami68 remains the leader, with her four golds, two silvers and three bronzes, and Brian is still in third place, with his three golds and three silvers.

Come back and play again on Monday!

One of the great things about having kids is that they give you plenty of reason to pause for a second and think about stuff you're taking for granted, sort of find a new appreciation of things.

The other day, when I had picked up our girls from Auntie's house and we were on our way home, our 3-year-old kept talking about "Koko," "Wilson" and "Brewster."

I wasn't sure what she was talking about until finally I realized she was referring to characters on a new television show she had seen and instantly fallen in love with: Chuggington.

Chuggington is a British cartoon about little engines that, like Thomas the Tank Engine and his friends, get themselves into brief adventures that usually end with some sort of moral lesson.

Our daughter asked me again and again if we could watch it when we got home. I told her no, but we can read some books instead. The way she was asking, though, was kind of odd. She said something like, "It's on TV at Auntie's house — is it gonna be on when we come home?"

I wasn't sure exactly what she meant but denied the request anyway. She seemed concerned but got over it.

The next day, Zee found out that Chuggington was showing on the Disney Channel in the morning and she decided to let our daughter watch it. When I walked into the living room a few minutes later, our beaming little girl pointed to the screen and exclaimed, "Pappa, look! It's Chuggington! It's on here too! It's on our TV too!"

That's when it occurred to me what she had been so concerned about the evening before. She was worried that her new favorite show wouldn't be available on television at our house, only at Auntie's house.

That got me thinking about the wonders of broadcasting and that — easy as it is to take it for granted — it's pretty fascinating that you can send the same television show to hundreds of millions of people.

And then I thought about how it's even more fascinating that you can write down your thoughts on the subject and share them with people on something as simple and commonplace as a blog.

Did your kids discover Chuggington yet? Do you think this show will take the throne from "Thomas and Friends"?

We threw a birthday party recently for our oldest, who just turned 3.

There are two things our daughter really likes in life: Thomas the Tank Engine and eating cake. For her 3rd birthday, we got her a Thomas the Tank Engine cake.

So, even though the party wasn't a big affair in terms of number of guests, it certainly carried its weight in terms of impact.

Other than the Thomas cake, we also thought the party was a good occasion to break out our chocolate fountain, which we got a while back so Zee could enjoy some chocolate-covered bacon.

We skipped the bacon and went with strawberries, cherries and mango bread. It was oh, so messy and oh, so good. Our daughter especially enjoyed the strawberries and even offered one of her rare on-camera smiles for this shot.

What is she saying in the photo? Post your caption suggestion as a comment below. You can post as many as you want, as long as you post them before tomorrow Tuesday at 9 p.m. Tune in again on Wednesday to see who won.