One Wild and Precious Life…

What will you do with your one wild and precious life? ~poet, Mary Oliver

WILD: mini cars skidding across the floor, crayons rolling an obstacle course, a toddler making himself dizzy by spinning in circles, Cheerios flying through the air in his excitement at using a spoon, water all over the floor from a scuba diving mission in the tub, sticky fingers and faces (peanut butter? bubbles?), stickers clinging to every counter-door-tshirt-wall he can find…

PRECIOUS: random hugs and kisses, pats on the belly for little brother, being handed my own fake flowers by my toddler-son, him telling me “mommy’s prity,” him rubbing my arm to make me feel better when I bump into something, telling me “I did it!” when he turns on the CD player by himself, watching him carefully line up his cars “in the garage” when I ask him to clean up, listening to him tell his stuffed dog, “Let’s try this one!”…

Life certainly is wild and precious… and full of messes that need to be cleaned up! We’ve always used Glad white trash bags in our house for regular trash, but recently I was sent the Glad Black Bags with Force Flex. Now these are the ones you’ll want for those heavy duty messes, like cleaning the basement, hauling items to be donated, and other big messes … like making pizzas, playing with play-doh, and more! (Sometimes I use a trash bag as a drop cloth!).

Glad wants moms to know they can handle the mess (but we have to do the rest!). To support recycling and creativity, Glad has partnered with the Picker Sisters, who built their business on a “trash-to-treasure” concept that takes relics from the wildest moments of life and recreates them into something new, beautiful, and memorable!

Taking the Picker Sister’s expertise and partnering with celebrated mosaic artist Jason Mecier, Glad® Black Bag is showing the beauty and benefits of turning trash into treasures. Right now through April 26th, you’ll find four amazing pieces of artwork from Mecier up for auction on Ebay.com! Each piece in the Glad Black Bag Art Auction was created with discarded objects collected during Keep America Beautiful’s Great American Cleanup!

Here’s my favorite mosaic of a brown bear – it’s unbeleivable the individual items you can pick out in the collage!

All four pieces by Mecier are up for bid until April 26th, and proceeds from the auction benefit Keep America Beautiful.

Also check out Glad’s latest campaign – The Wild Life, at Facebook.com/Glad, and watch as real life becomes the wild life. Visitors can take part by creating sharable trailers for a chance to win $25,000 and other prizes and coupons, or follow the family’s happening on Twitter @GladWildLife.

Tell me about your own “wild and precious life”… how do you keep up with the messes?

I wrote this review while participating in a blog tour campaign by Mom Central Consulting on behalf of Glad Black Bag and received a Glad Black Bag product and a promotional item to thank me for taking the time to participate. I was also asked to “pin” one (1) Glad Black Bag Art Auction photo on Pinterest.