Cloth Diapering Mamas Rejoice! Part 2: Remove Diaper Cream from Diapers!

They said it couldn't be done.

I proved them wrong!

You CAN remove Desitin, Calmoseptine and other diaper cream build-up residue from microfiber diaper fleece! I know because I did it today!

Here's the story: I recently started putting Miss Tips in the large diapers since her legs were getting sores from the mediums being too small for her now (she is almost 18 months now - and I had my son in large diapers from the time he was about 14 months old). On Saturday her diaper leaked completely through to her jeans and when Tips changed her diaper he said the fleece was completely dry. Ugh!

Cloth Diapering Mamas Rejoice! Part 1: Remove Ammonia from Diapers

I don't care if you use Charlie's Soap, Rockin' Green, Allen's, your own laundry soap or the free and clear version of national brand laundry detergent.... we ALL get ammonia buildup in our diapers. I've even learned over this past year of having soft water and brand new pocket diapers and inserts I made for my daughter, that it doesn't even matter if you have soft water or hard water.... you will still get ammonia in your diapers!

Parenting with Love and Logic... dinnertime

About a year and a half ago my friend was telling me about Parenting with Love and Logic, which she had just started reading. It sounded good - especially when I read the reviews on Amazon.com so I put it on my wishlist.

It took over a year until I finally got me this book for Christmas. I LOVE IT!!! It makes so much sense to me. But like all self-help books, I needed to know if 'the system' would work in MY family.

Practical Life: Laundry -Team work!

Miss Tips and Tips Jr. wanted to help me do laundry last month and so I made a video to show you all just how well my almost 4 year old and my 1 year old work together AND actually enjoy working together!

Victory Garden 2011: quick update 8/26

My life has been just a little hectic lately with the garden in full swing, working on the Cub Scout Leader Pow Wow Committee (I'm a sub-committee chair) and having our exchange student Hanna with us this last month and traveling with her. That's not even including the fact that I have two little ones!

I haven't taken pictures of our garden since the 6th of August, but we pulled out our corn stalks a week ago and I am getting ready to pull my bush beans out since they have slowed down on their production and some of the plants aren't looking so great. My project this coming week is to prep those two rows that hosted the corn and bush beans for my winter garden! Speaking of.... I received my seeds for my winter garden 2 weeks ago and I am so excited to get my winter garden in!

 

I harvested all of the food in this picture almost 2 weeks ago - the morning that we left to visit the North Rim of the Grand Canyon. I had 5 heads of lettuce that were getting ready to bolt, a gallon of beans and 19 ears of corn that were getting old... not to mention the obvious zucchini. I didn't have time to take the food to the local food bank that day, so I called our ward's Relief Society president (the woman in our church who oversees the distribution of goods to needy members of the ward/neighborhood as directed by the bishop) to see if she knew if anyone in the ward could use the food. She said she knew a few families so she would come over and get it. I think she was really surprised by the amount of food we had harvested in our garden just that morning! She was so impressed I would share it and I thought to myself, 'But it is my surplus and we can't eat it all. Isn't that what we are supposed to do with our surplus? Pass it on to help other people who need it more? Isn't that what the Law of Consecration is all about?"

I was just so thankful that the food would not be wasted and that it would go to someone who truly needed it! We have been so blessed in our garden this year that I know God expects me to share of our wealth! If  everyone who could garden actually did and then also developed a charitable heart to share of the abundance from their garden with needy neighbors and others in the community, we would have a lot less hungry people in the world. Perhaps that is the reason some of the seed companies are participating in the "Grow a Row for the Hungry" initiative and encouraging their patrons to grow a row of food specifically for their local food bank.

So next time you are thinking about decreasing the amount of food you grow in your garden because you know you and your family won't eat it, remember that your local food bank is always grateful for donations of fresh produce from local gardens!