Liquid Laundry Detergent:

2 gallon Recipe:

3 Pints Water

1/3 bar Fels Naptha Soap, grated

1/2 cup Washing Soda (Arm and Hammer, NOT baking soda though!!)

1/2 cup 20 Mule Team Borax

2 Gallon bucket to mix it in

1 Quart hot water Hot Water

Mix Fels Naptha soap in a saucepan with 3 pints hot water and heat on low until dissolved. Stir in Washing Soda and Borax. Stir until thickened, and remove from heat. Add 1 Quart Hot Water to 2 gallon Bucket. Add soap mixture, and mix well. Fill bucket with additional hot water, and mix well. Set aside for 24 hours, or until mixture thickens. Use 1/2 cup of mixture per load.

5 gallon Recipe: (my favorite)

Water

1 bar grated Fels Naptha soap

5 gallon bucket

1 cup washing soda (Again, Arm and Hammer)

4 1/2 gallons water

Put grated Fels Naptha in saucepan and cover with water. Heat on low until dissolved. Fill bucket with hot water and add soap. Stir to combine. Add 1 cup washing soda and mix well. As it cools, it will thicken. May be used immediately. Use 1- 2 cups per load.  I sometimes add

Powdered Laundry Detergent

1 cup grated Fels Naptha Soap

1/2 cup washing soda

1/2 cup 20 mule team borax

Mix and store in airtight container or bag. For light loads, use 2 tablespoon. For heavy loads, use 3 tablespoons.

To make a large batch – grate 6 bars of Fels Naptha Soap and then add 3 cups of Washing Soda and 3 cups of 20 Mule Team Borax.  Mix well and store in covered container.

2. Sit in silence for at least 10 minutes each day.

3. When you wake up in the morning complete the following statement, ‘My purpose is to __________ today.’

4. Eat more foods that grow on trees and plants and eat less food that is manufactured.

5. Drink green tea and plenty of water. Eat blueberries, wild Alaskan salmon, broccoli, almonds & walnuts.

6. Try to make at least three people smile each day.

7. Don’t waste your precious energy on gossip, issues of the past, negative thoughts or things you cannot control. Instead invest your energy in the positive present moment.

8. Eat breakfast like a king, lunch like a prince and dinner like a college kid with a maxed out credit card.

9. Life isn’t fair, but it’s still good.

10. Life is too short to waste time hating anyone.

11. Don’t take yourself so seriously. No one else does.

12. You don’t have to win every argument. Agree to disagree.

13. Make peace with your past so it won’t spoil the present.

14. Don’t compare your life to others’. You have no idea what their journey is all about.

15. No one is in charge of your happiness except you.

16. Frame every so-called disaster with these words: ‘In five years, will this matter?’

17. Forgive everyone for everything.

18. What other people think of you is none of your business.

19. GOD heals. . . and He can heal everything if its in His plan. We just need to trust His bigger picture.

20. However good or bad a situation is, it will change.

21. Your job won’t take care of you when you are sick. Your friends and family will. Stay in touch!!!

22. Envy is a waste of time. You already have all you need.

23. Each night before you go to bed complete the following statements:  I am thankful for __________.    Today I accomplished _________.

24. Remember that you are too blessed to be stressed.

Monkey Munch Recipe:

9 cup Chex
1 cup chocolate chips
1/2 cup peanut butter
1/4 cup butter
1/4 teaspoon vanilla
1 1/2 cup powdered sugar

Put cereal in large bowl. Melt chocolate chips, peanut butter, and butter. Remove from heat and stir in vanilla.

Pour over Chex cereal, put into a large plastic bag with powdered sugar and shake well to coat.

Spread mixture evenly on wax paper and allow to cool.
]]> http://weefay.wordpress.com/2008/07/09/monkey-munch-recipe/feed/ 1 weefay http://weefay.wordpress.com/2008/07/09/my-favorite-prayer-book/ http://weefay.wordpress.com/2008/07/09/my-favorite-prayer-book/#comments Wed, 09 Jul 2008 02:52:32 +0000 weefay http://weefay.wordpress.com/?p=43 ]]> THE CHRISTIAN MOTHER:

First published in 1880, Rev. Cramer begins at the door of the Church with the mother who has come for God’s blessing upon her as a mother. He continues to explain along with this beautiful ceremony, the vocation of Motherhood and the virtues necessary to fulfill this important vocation.
Rev Cramer explains how a young woman should approach the sacrament of matrimony and then assists her in the proper education of her children. After all the important advice on raising children many prayers are included covering all the situations of a mother and her children.
This book, considered timely at the turn of the century, is more so now since in the past many lessons that may have been overlooked by mothers were taught by the sisters at Catholic schools and mothers could also find true Catholic answers to the circumstances of daily life. The lessons that are learned at the foot of the mother are necessary all through life and unto eternity. This treasure for mothers will provide the advise mothers need to raise their children and the prayers she should daily raise to heaven to request graces for her family.

MOTHERS WILL LEARN:
* Duties toward their children and how to fulfill them
* The proper love they should have toward their children
* The examples both good and bad that they give to their children by their actions
* How and when to introduce the children to the truths of our holy religion
* How to behave with regard to the faults of the children & how to rid their children of faults including:
* Stubbornness
* Vanity
* Lies
* Irritability
* Anger
* Selfishness, and more..
* The importance of modesty and innocence
* The mother’s direction of her children
* God’s word concerning parents and their duties
* How to pray for her children and herself
* The duties of a mother of a priest
PRAYERS:
* To offer Holy Mass to obtain the graces necessary to fulfill her vocation.
* To offer Holy Mass for her children.
* To obtain the grace to give good example
* For the most important situations and necessities of a mother,
* To obtain the gifts of the Holy Ghost
* Prayers for children preparing for their first Confession and for children preparing for their first communion
* The Holy Way of the Cross to be made by the Christian mother for the benefit of her children
* The Rosary of the Christian mother
* To obtain for a son a vocation to the priesthood
* Many more!

Here is our daily routine that we generally follow:

Morning:

I do not set an alarm in the morning, but I usually wake up between 6:00 and 7:00. Here is my morning routine:

• oversee breakfast prep. / prayer reading while kids eat
• kids morning routine: make bed, wash up, brush teeth
• discuss chore lists w/kids 
• start laundry
• Play time outside (we’re taking a summer break from studies)
• Dinner @Noon

Afternoon:
After dinner clean up I send the big kids up stairs to read and the two little ones stay in my room for quite time. I usually read or put my feet up for a bit.

After an hour and a half, I get everyone up and give them a snack. Then we take a walk or play outside some more.

Around 4pm I start supper and the kids get to watch a show or dvd while they fold their laundry.
Evening:
We eat supper between 5:00-6:00 and everyone helps with clean-up.

• Free time
• showers and brush teeth
• room clean up
• Read family story to the kids
• Prayers

Kids are in bed by 8pm

Quite time for me reading, prayers.

I try to get to sleep by 9:30, here lately it’s been way later.

 

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FOR TODAY

Outside My Window…the skies are cloudy.

I am thinking…all the Saturday chores that were left unfinished

I am thankful for…good friends

From the kitchen…dishes are screaming at me.

I am wearing…my husbands Army t-shirt and my black skirt, hair is swept up.

I am creating…chore charts for the kids rooms.

I am going…to stay home all day.

I am reading…my favorite prayer book!

I am hoping…to postpone our trip to Texas, hopefully we can wait till October.

I am hearing…silence…the kiddos tummies must still be full.

Around the house…there is much to do.

One of my favorite things…is writing in my journal.

A Few Plans For The Rest Of The Week:…classes for three days and maybe a Friday night movie with the kids.

Here is picture thought I am sharing…

Do you have a plan for each day? If you have children, a routine is a must!  Life is made so much more difficult by not having one.  Finding ones rhythm can be challenging at first, this is especially true for us who’s own mama’s did not equip us with the necessary tools.

 I did not have a childhood with chores or routines.  My dear mama believed kids needed to be kids and enjoy much freedom.  No chores were served up…nope not even our own rooms were cleaned by those who dwelled there.  I never did my own laundry till I was a teenager…for shame.  For us grown-ups that “enjoyed” such a leisure childhood such as mine know all to well that they have been “handicapped” by a lack of discipline in the domestics from an early age.

If you have yet to find a routine that works for you, do not despair; I will share more as this day allows; however I will end here since I have a few “to-do’s” this morning to accomplish.

Take care~