Thank you pinterest....

...and Aquafresh for fixing my table.

Yep. Toothpaste. The boys love {LOVE!} to sit at the table and draw and color and cut and create. One day they found these amazingly awesome markers they had never seen before. They loved them, and used them, and my table has permanent {or so I thought!} proof of that.

Enter pinterest. I saw this blog pinned, and the timing couldn't be better! So I figured why not rub toothpaste all over my table, the worst that could happen is the dining room will smell very minty for the afternoon.

Luckily, it worked! There were several spots that needed this extra special treatment. And now my table is back to normal. You know...just the scratched, banged up, table. And the permanent markers have been put up where small hands cannot find them! : )