Happiness is an attitude. We either make ourselves miserable, or happy and strong. The amount of work is the same.
~Francesca Reigler
I hope to teach my daughter to be this kind and caring. What an amazing group of Young Women!
So, I am constantly finding blog posts that excite me, give me inspiration, make me cry, and make me think. I want to share these with all of you, but listing them one at a time would be annoying. So I thought I would give something a try.
Every so often, I will post a compilation of my favorite posts. I hope you all enjoy. Here we go.
A Shallow Immature Angry Rant. This is an excellent explanation of why I hate camping. This is written by one of my favorite bloggers, Braden Bell, who wrote "The Roadshow." Excellent book.
On Women and Men: Can't We Just Get Along. Another post by Braden Bell. I have to admit I have been guilty of this before, and I am going to try harder.
Healthy Halloween Party Food Tis the season...for Halloween. Here are some really fun ways to get your kids to be excited about vegetables!
Halloween Ideas More Halloween ideas!
LDS ABC's Quiet Book Finally, a quiet book that is so cute. I am going to make one, even though my kids don't need it!
Enjoy!
When I download the pictures off my camera, I immediately back them up to a CD. I learned my lesson in 2004 when I lost 4 months of pictures because I hadn't backed them up before my hard drive crashed. Over the years, I have accumulated quite a stack of CD's.
I will not keep them exclusively on a hard drive because hard drives crash. Even the expensive ones. But they were starting to take up a lot of room and I needed a different option. Then I remembered that DVD's hold more than CD's do. So I took all my pictures and saved them onto DVD's instead. I went from 48 CD's to 4 DVD's.
Very cool!
Back in June, my dishwasher stopped washing my dishes well. It was leaving white stuff all over the dishes, and left a white film on my plastics that wouldn't come off. I tried running an empty load with just vinegar, I took apart the drain and tried and clean it out, I did multiple things and it just wasn't working. So we shut it and locked it and put it out of commission. We didn't have the money to replace it so we went to strictly hand washing. The children were not thrilled, and neither was I, but we didn't have any other options.
Two weeks ago, The Doctor was listening to the local news radio and they mentioned that recently phosphates had been regulated in dishwasher soap, going from as much as 8.7% to 0.5%. This was causing a lot of people to complain that their dishes weren't getting clean and it was leaving a white film on their dishes.
Sound familiar?
When he told me about it, I immediately got online and started researching it, and found a lot of people who were complaining about it. Some had even gone out and bought new dishwashers, to no avail. A lot of people had resorted to crossing state lines and buying dishwasher soap in states where it hadn't been regulated yet!
I wondered about my dishwasher soap, so I went and read the box. "Contains no phosphates." Ah-ha!
So I did more research and found the solution. I went to Lowe's and bought a box of TSP - trisodium phosphate, which cost less than $5. I added one tablespoon of it to my dishwasher, and 1 tablespoon of my dishwasher soap, then loaded the dishwasher and prayed.
Ta-daa!!!!!! It worked! My dishes came out clean and sparkly! I was so excited, but not anywhere near as excited as my children were! It was The Chocoholic's week to do dishes, and when I told him he could use the dishwasher, he squealed with excitement! He had so much fun doing the dishes that night! If only that would last!
So if you are struggling with your dishwasher, try this out. It worked for us! And saved us a lot of money!
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