Candle By Night

I make my own laundry detergent. Yes, you read that right. I make my own laundry detergent. I used to purchase a large bucket of laundry detergent from Sam's Club. Since we don't have a membership there anymore and I don't like spending money on name brand detergents I started making my own. It's so easy and so cheap! All you need is some water, washing soda, Borax, and a bar of Fels-Naptha soap. That's it! Easy right? First you just need to grate your soap. I grate it right into the pot I am going to use. I have a pot, plastic spoon, and grater that I purchased from the Dollar General just for this project. Once you have the bar shredded just add 4 cups of hot water and put it on the stove at a medium-low heat. Keep stirring until it's all melted. It will go from this..... to this. Oh, I should also add that you need a 5 gallon bucket. You can find one pretty cheap in the paint department of most home improvement stores. Fill the bucket up half way with hot wat...

This past weekend was so nice. The weather was pretty close to perfect if you ask me. Sunday afternoon brought a time for relaxing and playing with the children. Beloved became a dragon, Special K and Sweet E were princesses, and Big T and Little E were knights. Beloved swooped in and captured the princesses. So what were the knights to do.....but to rescue the damsels in distress. :-) And run from the dragon , And use the catapult to throw things at the dragon. It was pretty much worthless trying to save the princesses when the oldest one wanted to be captured. :-) While the battle was going on I had a chance to lounge in my chair I got for Mother's Day and enjoy the beautiful weather. Every once in a while the children and I would use our imaginations and see what the clouds turned into. For a split second we would see a turtle in the clouds and it would quickly change into a dog. We had so much fun and the sky was so blue. It was beautiful. When Special K was freed she spent a ...

This post is going to have a little of this and a little of that. I'm sorry...okay? But I fell WAY behind in my posts once again. And I am too lazy to write multiple posts. ;-) First up we have Robin H0od. Little E was having a good ol' time with his bow. Too bad his overalls are a little too small. haha And then I found proof of Little E touching the camera after he has been instructed multiple times not to touch it. We finally built a second bench for our dining room table a couple of weeks ago. Here is an in-progress picture. It has a slight wobble to it, but it works just fine. Nice and sturdy. :-) (You can find the plans at Knock Off Wood/Ana White ) While we were building the bench Sweet E wanted to fly her kite. At least she wore herself out a little bit. :-) Who's that coming down the road? Why...it's my Dad and Mom riding bikes with the children! They gave our bikes a try and I think they liked our set-up. Every time I thought they were going to stop, they woul...

I am so far behind on posting pictures, but I promised my sister I would get some soccer pictures up. The first soccer game was August 28 th , but Sweet E is the only one that I got pictures of. Big T and Little E played at the same time and since we coach Little E's team....pictures did not happen that day. :-( But I did make up for not getting any pictures of Big T this past Saturday. I promised to get a lot of pictures and I did. :-) Still don't have any of Little E though. Running around a soccer field with a camera in my pocket doesn't seem like the best idea. Big T and Sweet E both scored a goal in their games. I missed seeing Sweet E's goal but I did get to see Big T dribble the ball all the way down the field and score! Anyway here are some pictures from Game #2 this past Saturday. There she goes! Then it was Big T's turn. And they're off! Now that is a face of determination! It looks like she is fending off the whole other team! I will do my best to po...

It's hard to believe this was 3 years ago! Sweet E is just too adorable :-)