It’s happened to me everytime I bring the baby clothes down. And yes, most of the stains will come out with oxyclean. Usually I try to soak them at least overnight in hot water with the oxyclean added. Good luck!

Yep, had that happen and yep, oxyclean! Use the hottest water you can and let them soak until it’s cool.

I have had great success with BIZ soaks or I make a paste out of BIZ and water, cover the spot with it and let it dry.  After a day or 2 throw it in the wash on the hottest setting for the garment.  Only had one or two items that I couldn’t get the atains out!

If you lay them out in the sun to dry, the sun will take away the yellow stains - it’s magic and works every time! I use this for my stained cloth diapers as well and they come out looking good as new. I received many hand-me-downs with my sun with the yellow stains, and the sun has resuscitated many clothes!

Just a a suggestion…. A Mr. Clean eraser. My girls colored with permanent marker on a cloth footstool and the eraser took it out (I live those things!). I would do a test spot first to make sure it doesn’t fade the car fabric. Good luck!

Oooops… suppose to say love those things

Woolite OxyDeep is the BEST.  It works really well on baby clothes for getting out stains too!  Target should have it.

We are regular smoothie-drinkers.  As in, maybe 3-5 x/week winter; just about every day in the summer.  This is our blender:

http://www.amazon.com/Waring-MBB518-Professional-Beverage-Stainless/dp/B00004S8F8/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1327772997&sr=8-1

It goes thru the dishwasher everytime, handles ice and frozen fruit, etc.

The motor is a workhorse.  Off, low & high.  We did have to replace the glass container once, when a long spoon got dipped in, caught in the blade & shattered/cracked the glass.
 
You might find some used ones online….Craigslist, maybe Amazon refurbished?

I have a cuisinart blender. I’ve had to replace the rubber ring seal a few times, and wish it was a bit heavier duty, but it’s lasted for 5+ years so far and makes great smoothies. I have the food processor and blender combo.

I have the cuisinart blender as well. When the rubber ring needed to be replaced, I just popped a thick rubber band around the base of the glass container.  Works like a charm, washes in the dishwasher, is easy to replace & free!!!  It doesn’t do very well for smoothies, though.  We use my cuisinart mini prep food processor.

Thanks for the suggestions; I will look those up.  I saw some blenders in an advertisement.  They were Ninja Professional blenders and some are in my price range.  Does anyone own one of those?  If so, do you like it?

Does anyone have tips on buying “chargers” or anything to keep hot food warm.  Ive seen one in Bed Bath and beyond that is approx. $50 but it has a space in the lid to rest a spoon and I heard that all the heat escapes.  Are electric best or the ones that use candles.  Thank you in advance

I’m not sure how many smoothies at once you’re trying to make, but after going through a bout of making them in our large blender we decided to get a magic bullet. It works great and the clean-up is a breeze since you’re making the smoothies in the cup you’re going to drink it out of. We just throw our cups in the dishwasher and wash the blade off really quickly. It takes a lot of the hassle out of making the smoothies…no more need to lug the huge blender with 4 different detachable parts out from under the counter!

I bought a Ninja after getting tired of trying to make smoothies in the blender and it is great!  and was the right price…

My DH likes to make smoothies and he uses an immersion blender. It’s a KitchenAid and he got it at Target. They generally run somewhere in the vicinity of $30-$50 I think. It comes with a large plastic “cup” to mix the ingredients in, including ice and frozen fruit. We did have to replace to cup once, but find the blender itself works great. Just stick everything in the dishwasher when done.

I’ve surfed the web too, but come up with nothing.  None of the information I found said there was an original sketch.

I don’t know where to find it online, but I do remember watching a show on EWTN about her and they had the original (if memory serves me right) hanging in the convent where she saw the visions of the Sacred Heart.

Thanks for the tips!  I’ll do some more digging.  Fyi, what piqued my curiousity was seeing this:
http://www.msgrjohnesseff.net/?p=303
 
—a painting of St. Margaret Mary Alacoque holding up a little square drawing of the Sacred Heart.
I went to what I thought was the church/convent - Paray Le Monial (?) -website, but couldn’t decipher much.

I neaten up, but I don’t mind having a few toys out (my son has to have something to play with while waiting for the playdate to start!).  I try to make sure the kitchen counters and bathroom fixtures are presentable.  I don’t necessarily vacuum before a playdate.

It all depends on who is visiting. The in-laws are laid back so a quick sweep of the house is good enough. My family on the other hand required a deeper clean, but a minimal amount of toys are always present. With four kids they can’t be hid all the time.

If there will be crawling babies, I make sure the kitchen is swept and the living room is vacuumed just so no one eats something they shouldn’t.  And I make sure the chairs/couches aren’t piled with stuff.  But I leave toys out (I have a basement playroom and figure if the kids are going to tear it apart anyway, why clean up twice; I also have a couple baskets in the living room, mostly full of toys for littles who can’t play unsupervised) if we’re having people over to play.  Hosting Christmas was rather a different story, but for most low-key things like having friends over, I just do basic cleanliness of kitchen/living room/bathroom and leave it at that.  No extra floor scrubbing for me!  And we don’t let the kids go up and play in the bedrooms with friends (we don’t really have toys there anyway), so I don’t worry about whether those areas are clean for guests.

I tidy up for guest but clean for my family.  Unless there are going to be crawling babies.    Happy visiting!

If I had to super clean for company, I’d hardly have any company.  I read a nice little book once that made the distinction between Entertaining and Welcoming Guests.  When you entertain, that’s more formal and you should put your best foot forward.  When you welcome guests for a visit, you want them to see things as they normally are—obviously you should put all your clothes on, flush the toilets and pick up the banana peels!  But for friends and close family who come over often, a quick tidy should do.  I’ve always like the “box” method of cleaning, wherein you take a laundry bin or a big Ikea bag and just stuff clutter into it and throw it in your bedroom.  Sort when company leaves!

We have recently started to force ourselves to “put the labor” down on Sundays. My spouse and I are self employed, and we never stop working - be it work work or housework. We have recently resolved that Sundays are fun days. Even if that fun is chilling with a book or working on a project or making a special meal (for enjoyment). It doesn’t include household cleaning (recognizing that sometimes I have to throw a load of laundry on because one of the children might be short a uniform or something in prep for Monday).

We try not to do any unnecessary work on Sundays.  That being said, there are exceptions.  We will clean up if company is coming and we didn’t get it done the day before.  I will wash sheets or bedding if someone wet the bed.  If someone had an accident like on the floor I will intend to just clean up that spot, but, yes, I have also continued on the roll and just finished the whole room.  Sometimes being alone cleaning a bathroom doesn’t necessarily feel like work but a mini-break   We do a lot of work around here on Saturday.  If the kids want to play a long game or PS3 or something like that we remind them, that’s part of what Sunday’s are for.

I try to keep my Sundays free of work by doing all my chores during the week. But somethings have to be done now even if it’s Sunday. I will do the urgent cleaning like potty accidents, of course, and I usually clean the rest of the floor, because it will only take a few more seconds and I’ve already got the stuff out. But I try to be done with it quickly so I can get back to the family. If I take too long, they will make a bigger mess elsewhere I have to clean.
We try to get out of the house on Sundays so it doesn’t get messy and we don’t have to clean much. Or I plan some fun house projects that the whole family can help out with like washing the car, planting flowers baking desserts for dinner. If the task is enjoyable, and relaxing and helps us appreciate the gifts God gave us, I don’t see a problem with doing it on Sunday.