Random Updates

Let's talk about laundry, ok I'll just get to the point, the best things for stains EVER is shout ULTRA gel for colors and clorox bleach pen for whites. Enough said. Until I couldn't find them at our walmart almost all freaking summer. I tried shout ADVANCED gel, crap, zout-crap, this new Tide stain lifter-crap, oxyclean powder in the wash-crap. After taking Isabelle to school I went to kmart and target, kmart has bleach pens and target had both, my beloved shout ultra gel.... how I DID miss you. I'm not big on perfumey crud, and I dont' like harsh detergent because it seems to wear clothes out faster. I use All free and clear. Anyway so in my analness, I am now at laundry peace with my trusty stainlifters back in my life.

Can I just say that yesterday was just as sad taking Isabelle to school?? Today was better. She remembered her room number and I told her I would go in with her and follow to make sure she really knew where she was going. She heads all the way down the long hall, ahead of us, she walks much faster than Christian and I see her, open up her locker, put her backpack in and head for the gym to find her teacher like she's on a mission, I say have a good day!! as she heads up the hall too fast for Christian's legs shes says ok!! and she goes in the gym and finds her teacher. She's been learning a little spanish, each day she tells me something new she know. Yesterday I guess 3 kids called a girl in class fat and the little girl cried. So we've gotten to have some good discussions about how words can really hurt people. I've always hoped my kids could somehow be confident enough in whoe they are in the Lord that they would stand up for weaker picked on kids... but that's a hard thing to teach a kid in school, they are just trying to make it through themselves most of the time. She said some older boy pushed her at recess. So we had to talk about that. But hey it was someone's birthday and they all drew her a picture and had cupcakes so all in all a good day!!

First soccer game last night, and oh my, the confusion, the crying. ( one poor little girl just cried while out there and didn't want to play) Kindergarteners are entertaining. At halftime I asked Isabelle if she even knew which goal she was supposed to be trying for. She said " uh, no". I had to explain, this goal GOOD, the other goal BAD, you don't want the team to score!! That seemed to make her much more involved since she knew there was an actual game plan and not just a blob of kids fighting for the ball which she wasn't too in to getting in the mess of at first as she didn't know what to do with the ball if she even got a chance. So lots of room for improvement and I'm guessing even though there was no score keeping that it was probably 15-2. our loss. :)

The Dryer Screen

I had always gotten forwards about how if you use dryer sheets how it leaves a film on your lint filter. I was skeptical but wondered if it was true and never did the water test. Well today a load didn't get as dry as normal so I pulled out the lint filter (I clean if off after every load) and poured some water on top... the water just sat there, I was amazed, it's true, it's ALL true!! At first I thought, hmm well maybe that's just what water does on lint filters....I got an old toothbrush and dishsoap, scrubbed it, then ran more water over it, the water went right through, no pooling. So just a friendly tidbit to pass along.