Sew Crafty Friday

This week I only had about a day or so to get something done, so I experimented with something that I had in mind to sell in our "store" once it's ready to go. I made a coaster. ;0) I know it sounds weird, but I made a coaster with a small crocheted doily inside. Here is the doily. Sorry for the bad picture.
I made it as a tester to see it if was easy to make. Even though the doily was small, I think next time I will make it a little smaller, so that it will lay flat, without bunching up. Now the children can put their cups on the wood part of the table. ;0)

YAY!! I'm pretty happy with the way it came out. I can't wait to experiment some more. I think the boys will have some fun with thinking of things to put in a coaster. lol
I can't wait to try this with some bugs. We won't kill any bugs to put in the coaster, but sometimes we find dead bugs that are still completely intact, which would be perfect. I know the boys will get such a kick out of that. ;0) Maybe we can sell some of those coasters too. ;0) I will say that while reading the instructions on how to make it, I saw that they had molds to make a fake ice cube. In the picture, there was a bug in the "ice cube." Imagine that!! What a scare that would be?
If you have something crafty, feel free to link up. Put a small blurb on your blog pointing others here, so they can participate. If you don't have a blog, just email me your pics for me to post here. I'll be back in a bit to share about Britney's bake sale. ;0)

Garden Update

This whole gardening thing has chewed me up and spit me out. ;0) Between VBS and my parents visiting, my blog has not been the only thing getting neglected. I went about a week without checking the garden. I knew it was getting enough water because it has been raining pretty consistently. When I finally did get out there, I noticed the tomato plants looked as if they were dieing. I thought maybe that was it, the season was over or something. When I got a closer look, I noticed some interesting caterpillars. The boys were so excited at how beautiful and bright they were. Here is Micah petting it. ;0)

Sure enough, as I looked around, I noticed this.

My pepper plants were devoid of leaves. ;0(

Then, Micah(4) says, I know what these are. He went running inside the house and came back outside with one of his books. He opened up to this page.

Sure enough, he was right on. I'm embarrassed to say I had no idea what they were until Micah enlightened me. lol ;0) The dilemma then becomes what do you do. In our house we don't kill anything, aside from mosquitos and waterbugs. I asked Micah, "what should we do?" He said, "plant more tomato plants." We didn't have the heart to just take the caterpillars off of their food supply. Silly, I know. They are now gone. I wonder if I can do what Penny did with hers.

The only plants thriving really well is my lettuce. Thanks, Penny.
My Basil.

And some parsley.

The baby carrots have stumped me. The tops look like they are growing, but there are no carrots underneath. It's been a few months already. I need to look into what went wrong.

The broccoli as well. The plant keeps growing and growing, but no broccoli.

I was able to harvest some lettuce yesterday. I was so excited with it. It looks so fresh and colorful

This is what I mean by colorful. The seeds were a salad mix.

Well, that is about it on my garden update. I am in the process of planting some more tomato plants.

It does feel good to be sharing again. Thanks for hanging in there with me. ;0) My brother is still here, and we are enjoying him immensely. He leaves tomorrow. ;0( Hopefully I can share some more pictures of him and my parents soon.

Sew Crafty Friday

Sorry I'm late with this. This is an update on Judy's cross stitching project. She has really come along on this. I am impressed. I can't wait to see the finished project. If anyone wants to participate in SCF, but doesn't have a blog, just email me your pictures, and I can post them here for you.



This is the bag that I never got a chance to share last week. Since I didn't get a chance to do anything crafty this week, I guess I will share last weeks. lol ;0) The bag is like a denim material, so it's kind of heavy duty.
The handle goes all the way around, to give it good support for grocery shopping.

I made the flap so that I could fold it up and close it to make an envelope, but the flap came out too small. I have to fool around with the measurements.

I know I haven't been around this week, so I'm not sure if anyone will participate this week. If you have anything crafty to share, please link up, so others can visit. If you want to put a blurb on your blog leading visitors back here, that will be great. The more the merrier.

Sporadic Blogging

As you can see, my parents have arrived. lol

I guess you can see where I get my gray hairs from ;0)



I don't know if you can see; maybe if you click on the picture below, but I was able to get my dad a hat with the children's names. I would love to get one for my beloved, but personalize it a little more. Like a little boy fishing with Micah's name next to it, etc.
I guess I will be on a mini blogging break until Sunday or Monday. My parents leave Sunday morning, and my brother arrives Sunday afternoon. I can't wait to see him, and for the children to get to know him again. It will be easier to blog with my brother around, than with my parents. I'm sure I will have more time, as my beloved will steal him away from me, like always.

I'm sorry, I realized I never posted my SCF last week. URGH!! It was a large tote bag. It came out a little larger than I wanted. I did it with the flap, so that it can be closed up in an envelope. The envelope came out too little for the bag. I'll try to share either tomorrow (Tues) or Wed. My parents might be going to visit someone, so I might have a little time then.

I hope everyone is doing great. Thanks for all the comments and emails. I will try to get to them shortly.

Sew Crafty Friday

I'm so sorry. I left at 6 something this morning to run errands. You gotta love those 24 hour stores. ;0) I just got home. My beloved is outside mowing the lawn, so I'm going to run out to help do some yardwork. I will be back in a bit to post my pictures. Feel free to link up. You know the drill. ;0)

It's Been A While

I'm still here, hanging on to my sanity by a thread. lol ;0) All is well. Two days left of vacation Bible school. It's been going great. I think what is rough is that we are getting home late, around 9:15, so the children aren't getting to bed until 9:40 or so. The boys are the ones acting a little ornery the following day. Yesterday they took a nap, at which time I tried to catch up on therapy with Brit, school with Kayla, and some much needed housecleaning. I thought I would have time to blog after said things were done, but by that time the boys woke up....cranky!!
For VBS we are doing Galilee By the Sea. They have been learning about Rabbi's, and how things were done during that time. My beloved and I have the tribe of Simeon. VBS is broken up into the tribes of the sons of Jacob. Yesterday was our time to bake bread at the bakery.


The lady in charge of the bakery said my beloved was a taskmaster. She said our tribe worked the fastest. lol Our tribe was the only one making heart shaped and donut shaped bread. Whenever my beloved is involved, things always go off the normal course. ;0)

While we were waiting for VBS to start, and other tribe leaders to get there, the children were sort of running around. My beloved was able to coral all of them into a game of Simon says, or maybe Simeon says. lol Sorry, couldn't help it.
Towards the end of the evening, two children have to go get water out of the "well" for the tribe to drink with their bread. Yes, it's plastic, I know. ;0)

This was the "synagogue school" where the "Rabbi" taught them how Jesus was able to touch the lepers without getting leprosy, and how He is able to cure us of our "diseases, sin" without getting "dirty".
They really grabbed the concept with an illustration using some mud. ;0)
Kayla has been enjoying herself as well. She also helped out a lot. The bakery lady said she was going to take her home with her. Apparently Kayla helped her with the dishes and cleaning up the kitchen.

As I was downloading the pictures to the computer this morning, I noticed this picture. I guess one of the children felt compelled to take a picture of their glue. The picture behind the glue caught my eye. That is a picture of my sister, Delilah, and I. Can you tell my mom wasn't Christian when she named her? lol Anyway, my sister turns 24 tomorrow. I'm not sure if she will read this, but just in case, Happy Early Birthday, sis. I love you. I'm so proud of you. This picture was taken two years ago. I went to NY for her graduation, she's a nurse. Hopefully I can get a normal post up sometime today. I know I have some questions and emails to answer as well.

Bring It On....

My beloved has confirmed what I have been thinking for the last few weeks. My biggest blog fan, my beloved, has told me my blog has been BLAH lately. ;0) My beloved's exact words were, "bring it on strong or don't bring it at all." (with a wink and a smile)lol So I wanted to let you all know that it has not gone unnoticed. I know I have been blogging, but my heart hasn't been into it much lately. I think the preparation for my parents' visit has pretty much taken over. Things should get back to normal soon, after the flurry of visits. I hope. ;0) In the meantime, I will enjoy my family.

Kinda Sad

My beloved and I have some alone time every evening once the children are in bed. Part of that alone time is taken up talking while we walk the dogs. We live on a double cul-de-sac, so we are able to walk the dogs and still have a clear view of our house, the front door, etc. Hard to explain.
Anyway, while on our walk last night, we came across our neighborhood children. They all live within 4 or 5 houses of us. As we were approaching them, all you could see were little lights in the middle of the street. It was already dark out. They were so engrossed in their little electronic gadget that they didn't even realize they were sitting in the middle of the street. Since it's a double cul-de-sac, we don't get any thru traffic, which is great.

My beloved has since told me that the electronic gadget is a called a DS. N*ntendo DS I think. On one side it was kind of funny to see all of them sitting there with these little lights glowing, but at the same time it's kind of sad that they weren't running around playing tag or kick the ball or something. The ironic thing is that my beloved had gone outside a couple of hours earlier with our boys to look for insects and to throw the ball around a bit. Those very same children came over so quickly and asked if they could play. It reminds me that we(my beloved and I)as parents, need to play WITH our children.

I was thinking of doing a week of sharing our family time games, or what we do for family time. This week our evenings are filled with VBS. My beloved and I are both tribe leaders. Our four children make up half of our tribe. I think you get 8 children total. Next week my parents are here. My brother might be arriving the day my parents leave until that Thursday. So if my brother doesn't come, maybe I can start sharing our family time the 27th. If he does come, I will start the following Monday.

Sew Crafty Friday

EDITED: I added my pictures below.
Hey there. The batteries on my camera are dead. Normally I just have my camera sitting on the docking station when it's not in use, so the camera is always ready to go. However, whoever used it last didn't place it properly on the little connector. ;0( They should be working shortly, and then I can take a picture of my project.
In the meantime, feel free to link up and show us what craftiness you have done. Make sure to link back here, just in case anyone else wants to link up. If you don't have a blog, you can still join. Email me your pictures, and I will post them here for you. I just realized I don't think I visited everyone who participated last week. I'm sorry. I will visit both sets of SCF's today.
Well, I better get running, my beloved comes home today. We're so excited. YAY!! It's been a long 2 days. I will be back in a bit, as soon as my batteries are up and running.

Okay, here is what I worked on this week. I think I did them because I knew they would be quick. The pattern calls for a little piece of white elastic to go across, almost like Mary Janes. Do you think I could crochet around the elastic? It feels like it would look unfinished to me, if I just left plain white elastic. As soon as I find the online pattern, I will share, just in case someone wants it. Now I need to find a little baby girl to give them to. lo ;0)

Wastewater. Waste No More!!

COMMENT:I have been washing dishes by hand for over 5 years now. I don't own a dishwasher and truly I don't want one:) I also do not let the water go down the drain, we pay for sewer service in our little town, so my garden has been receiving all of this water and doing gloriously. Thank you for sharing.

Maria has gotten my wheels turning. As soon as I read her comment I went to my home binder and grabbed my water bill. Sure enough I do pay for wastewater. The total was for 109.72. Since I have been making changes to our home, it has gone down. My bill used to come in the 130's. Now that I look at it, my bill says last year for this month I used 12, and this year I used 6. I don't know what that number is. I know it's the number on my meter, but I don't know what measurement they are using. Either way, I cut it in half. Here is a breakdown of my water bill.

Water- $19.47
ITDD Service charge- $2.50
Wastewater- $23.32
Garbage- $19.05
Cable- $38.65
Tax Fees- $6.73

I have no say, neither can I change the amount of the garbage or the cable amount. Our city is actually sewing the cable company. When our city was built, they signed a long contract with the cable company. This was before satellite became very popular. Mostly everyone has satellite dishes now, and don't use cable. So even if you use a satellite, you pay for cable in your water bill. Confusing, I know. Anyway, I only used $19.47 in water. It's kind of unreal that my total water bill is $109, but only 19.47 of that was water use. lol Well, back to my original reason for writing this. My waste water is was 23.32, which was more than my water usage. So now I am curious in finding out ways to cut our monthly waste water amount. When I think of waste water, the first thing that comes to mind is the toilet, but there are so many other ways we accumulate waste water. Washing machine, washing dishes, brushing teeth, bathing, etc. We can put a bucket in the shower to catch some of it, which we can then dump that into our garden or landscaping in the front. I have mentioned using gray water in the past to water our garden. I decided not to for our vegetable garden, but it can still be used for the flower garden and for the front shrubs, etc. I do have a siphon that I use when we clean out the boys aquarium. I wonder if I can use the siphon after I bathe the boys to make it easier, and also after I wash and rinse the dishes. My washer has a hose that goes into a nice little spout in the wall. I never thought about that. I know I can pull that little hose out, and maybe I can put that water in a bucket and dump it outside in the garden. I only wash one load a day, so it's not like I would have to stand by my washer all day long trying to get that water. lol Is anyone else trying to reduce their wastewater?

p.s. Cathy, I am still sane enough to teach your children Sabbath school. I promise, I am.

Q & A on Washing Dishes By Hand

QUESTION: I hope you don't think this is a silly question, but exactly how did you wash your dishes? Did you fill up a sink of soap water and wash them all from that and then rinse them all off at the same time? I'm just curious as I've been using a dishwasher for a long time.


ANSWER:It's not a silly question at all. When I shared with my beloved that I only used 2. something gallons of water to wash the dishes, after being impressed, his first question was, "how did you know it was under 3 gallons." ;0) "I measured it," was my answer. My poor beloved I think is getting used to the wackiness in our house. The only reason I measured it was because I wanted to know if I was really saving water by washing dishes without the dishwasher. I filled up the sink with a gallon of water. It didn't look like a lot. I was a little disappointed. I said, well, let me try it out. I put some of the dishes in the little bit of water. I washed the dishes and put them to the side. I then grabbed the next amount of dishes and put them in the little bit of water, and washed them and put them to the side. ;0) I repeated this a total of three times. I have two sinks, but it's not necessary. Once that was done it was time to rinse. I didn't want to just fill up the other sink to rinse the dishes in a little bit of water, as I felt that once the first one or two dishes were rinsed, the water would be soapy. ;0) So I put the stopper in the sink and I put the a little bit of water to run out of the faucet. I knew where a gallon of water got up to. Anyway, I put all of my soapy dishes in the sink and rinsed them off with the little water coming out of the faucet. To be specific, I grabbed a cup in each hand. I rinsed one, and with any water that was in the cup that I was rinsing, I would pour it over the next one that I was rinsing, to speed it up. lol I did that quickly. I did keep rinsing even though I knew it had passed the one gallon mark. Out of curiosity, I grabbed my huge blender which has cup markings on it, and measure out my rinse water. It came out to 1 gallon and about 3 or 4 cups. So I used a gallon to wash, and a gallon and few cups to rinse. I used a little more water to wipe the counters, ledge, and sinks down, so I just rounded it up to 3 gallons, but I don't even think it passed 2 1/2 gallons.

Maria S. left me a comment yesterday about wastewater. (thanks Maria) I am writing a post about that for today. I hope you come back to read that, as that might save even more money.

Q & A On Recipes

QUESTION:Hi. I just came across your blog and am looking through your recipes and meal weeks. Wanted to ask what the veggie chicken cream sauce was? Is it something you made and if so, can I get the recipe, or is something you bought? Thanks!

ANSWER: This is the post she was referring to. Okay, here is the recipe for the vegetarian chicken cream sauce. My beloved ate a non vegan version of this years ago while out on a business lunch. We looked around and found something that we thought might work.We tweaked it a bit to make it taste like what he ate at the restaurant. lol ;0)

Blend in blender till creamy:
1 cup of cashews, raw, washed
1 cup water

Add and blend:
1 1/2 cups water
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/2 teaspoon onion salt
2 teaspoons arrowroot powder(you can use cornstarch as well)
2 teaspoons mock chicken seasoning(I have one that I love. You can email me if you want it. My email is on the right side bar)
1/4 teaspoon of turmeric(seasoning, you should be able to find it at your local supermarket)
1 Tablespoon of dried parsley

Pour into pot and stir it. It should thicken up fairly quick. I normally stir and walk a way for 2 minutes or so, stir, walk away, stir, etc.

QUESTION: Hi. I would love the recipe for these too. Also, do you know if you could freeze these and then just reheat in toaster oven? That would be a super easy breakfast!

ANSWER: This is post she is referring to. I have never tried freezing them. I have made them up the night before, without putting it in the oven. Then in the morning I just pop them in the oven. If you do try freezing them, please let me know.

4 cups of oats
2 cups of whole wheat flour(I used whole wheat pastry flour)
3/4 cups of sucanat(which stands for SUgar CAne NATural. I get it at my local health food store. It's a healthy substitute for brown sugar)
1/2 teaspoon of salt
1/2 cup canola oil
1/2 cup natural applesauce(no sugar added)
1 cup of milk (we use soy milk)

Mix the first four dry ingredients in a bowl. Then add the oil and applesauce until it's sort of crumbly. Lastly, add the milk and mix well. It should be fairly thick. Pat it into an 8x8 pan. Don't smoosh it down in the pan, as it will not rise. Put it into an oven at 350 degrees for 35 to 40 minutes. Then, like in the original post, just heat up whatever fruit you want and pour it on top. The original recipe said to add a teaspoon of sugar. I use Florida Crystals sometimes. It's a substitute for sugar as well, it's just dried sugar cane, nothing wonky.

Scary!!

I had a really bad migraine yesterday. It hurt just to open my eyes, forget about looking at the computer screen. I still feel it slightly today, but not as bad as yesterday.

As I have mentioned before, my parents will be here next Sunday, the 19th. I have been in cleaning mode, as my father always somehow looks into each and every little crevice. ;0) Not looking for a mess, but wanting to point something out to me, we'll come across something that wasn't spotless. lol Anyway, I was cleaning out and wiping down my washer and dryer today. I haven't used my dryer in about a month, and it was looking kind of icky and dusty. I remembered that the last time the dryer was serviced, I saw the repairman pop the bottom panel of my dryer off.


I didn't even know that bottom panel came off. lol As I was cleaning the exterior of the dryer this morning, I decided to pop that panel off. Lo and behold it was FULL of lint. Did I say full? It was overflowing with lint. I will admit that when I used the dryer, I didn't empty the lint trap with every load, maybe every other load.

I'm not sharing this to embarrass myself. I think I do enough of that on here with other things. ;0) I did want to share it because while I was sprawled out on the floor, with half my body in the dryer, I took out some lint that was burned. Yep, burned!! Look.

That's scary. I just wanted to remind you to properly clean your dryer out. If you don't dare do it alone, enlist the help of your beloved. Don't forget to unplug it. ;0) It's really not enough to just empty the link trap.

My beloved left for Texas this morning, so I should have some time to catch up on answering questions later on this evening once the children are in bed. Also, welcome to a couple of new readers that have left me some comments. Thank you so much for stopping by and visiting with me.

They Have To Be Wrong ;0)

There is no way that "their" studies are right. Everything I have read says that you save money, and that it's environmentally friendly to use the dishwasher. They say to make sure you are running a full load. I checked the manual to my dishwasher, and it says that it uses 9.9 gallons of water for a normal load. I always use the normal load, and it runs for 77 minutes.

I washed all of the dishes you see above with less than 3 gallons of water, and I obviously saved the 77 minutes of electricity. They aren't stacked properly, as I wanted you to see how many dishes were washed. I can't wait to see how much my electricity bill comes for. I got my last bill on Friday, but it doesn't really count, as it was an estimate. They come to read the meter every other month. I have been addicted to reading my meter daily, but that's a whole other post. lol
Does anyone wash by hand as opposed to using the dishwasher, and see a difference in their electricity bill?
p.s. I will share our little store address this week. I'm almost done with the pictures and descriptions. Please, please be patient with me. I know I have some comments to respond to and recipes to share. I will definitely do those this week. My beloved might be going to Texas this week to help his younger brother with some decision making on the purchase of a house. My evenings will be empty without him. ;0( I will try to catch up on everything during that time.

Sew Crafty Friday

For my Sew Crafty Friday this week I did one, Mary Jane slipper. I started to make one for Britney a while ago, but I was still pretty new to crocheting. It took me so long that her foot grew. lol ;0) I pulled the yarn out this week and started one for myself. It worked up so quickly. Now I have to get the other one done. ;0)
They are really comfortable. It feels like I am wearing socks. My beloved was asking me if I could put a soft sole or something on the bottom. Does anyone know?
One of the reasons I would really like to learn how to knit, is to learn how to make socks. The crochet patterns I have seen for socks look really bulky. So until I learn how to knit, I will make these for the girls and I. ;0) I would have to try to figure out a way to adjust the pattern for the boys. Any ideas?
If you want to make a pair of your own, you can find the pattern for them
here .

So tell me, what craftiness have you done this week? It doesn't need to be completed, it can be a WIP (work in progress). If you want to share, link up below, and just put a little blurb on your blog pointing back here, so that maybe others can participate. The more the merrier. If you don't have a blog, just email me your pictures and I will post them here on my blog. My email address is on the right column.

Pick Your Title Below ;0)

Faith or Foolishness? or Answering Our Own Prayers

I wasn't sure what to title this post, so I figured I woule let you choose.

I have been struggling with something lately. When we pray about something, some people say you need to do everything in your power to answer it on your own. For example. If someone loses his job, and then prayed to the Lord and says, "Lord, please help me to find a job, I really need to work in order to pay my bills." After this person prays, they sit down and watch TV or play video games all day long. They look at it as, "I prayed, the Lord will find me a job." Is that faith? Is it foolishness? Would you say, that person needs to try to answer as much of his prayer as he can? Do you think he needs to get a resume typed up, and start sending his resume out , knocking on some doors.
The other day I came across some verses in Genesis that blew me away. Genesis 22:2 And he said, Take now thy son, thine only son Isaac, whom thou lovest, and get thee into the land of Moriah; and offer him there for a burnt offering upon one of the mountains which I will tell thee of.
And Genesis 22:12 And he said, Lay not thine hand upon the lad, neither do thou any thing unto him: for now I know that thou fearest God, seeing thou hast not withheld thy son, thine only son from me.

For those of you that don't know, I will give you the reader's digest version of Sarah and Abraham. The Lord told Abraham he would have seed(children), as many as the stars He showed him in the sky. Sarah was old, and she hadn't had any children. What did they do? They answered as much of that prayer as they could. (Abraham had asked him earlier about having children Gen. 15:3) Sarah told Abraham that she was too old to have children. She suggested that he lay with her servant and have a child. That's exactly what they did. Abraham and Sarah's servant had a child name Ishmael. It turns out the Lord did bless Sarah with a child. In her old age she gave birth to Isaac.
So what blew me away was that in those verses I mentioned above, it's as if the Lord didn't even recognize Ishmael as Abraham's son. The Lord considered Isaac to be Abraham's only son.
So now, when we pray, at what point are we dropping our faith and turning it into foolishness. At what point are we taking things into our own hands? Not only are we taking them into our hands, we are messing up really bad.
Even though Abraham messed up and answered his own prayer by having Ishmael. Abraham did have plenty of "seed" through Ishmael, as he was the father of the Ishmaelites. The founder of the Muslim nation. So yes, he had plenty of seed through Ishmael, but they didn't even believe in the Lord.
How many times do we pray and ask the Lord to open the door for this or that, but then we go and knock the door down ourselves? And yes, we get what we wanted, but it's not what the Lord had for us.
I guess my question is, where do we draw the line? How do we know when to step back and let the Lord just answer our prayers? On the other hand, when do we go and "get those resumes" out?
Sorry for rambling, it's just something that I have been trying to study out a bit.

A Great Find

My beloved had a quick 10:00 meeting this morning, so I went out early to buy a few things before he had to leave. I was so excited to find these stainless steel cups. I found them for a lot less than the $9.99 I kept seeing them for online. When I got home I hopped out the car to show my beloved with excitement. As you can see, it doesn't take much to make me happy. He was outside walking the dogs with the children. The first thing he said was that I should have bought more to sell them at our shop. ;0) I don't know how many more they have left. I will try to pick up some more, just in case anyone wants some.

As you can see, I purchased 6 of them. I'm so happy I didn't pay $60 for them. They hold 16 oz each, which I thought was great. Now I just need to make sure I drink 4 of these worth of water a day. Sorry they look a little dirty, the children and my beloved already drank from them. ;0)

He's Trying/Cloth Napkins

This is probably a TMI(too much info) post. ;0)

Can you tell summer is getting the best of me? ;0) My beloved worked from home today, and will be for the next few days. It's hard to stick to my normal schedule when he's home, hence the late posts. Not that you all want an update on the cloth wipes, but it's the end of the day, and I'm having a hard time trying to figure out what to write about. I really want to get my hands on some crocheting that I want to finish for Sew Crafty Friday. I'm so excited about it.

Anyway, back to the cloth wipes. I figured out why Micah didn't want to use them. He didn't want to get them dirty. He has since started using them, but he only uses the girly ones. He now prefers them over regular toilet paper. As long as he's dirtying the girly cloth wipes, he's okay. The other day I got excited because my beloved said, "I had to use the cloth wipes today." I whipped my head around in shock. It turns out he meant Micah brought it to him to be wiped. My beloved asked Micah," are you sure you don't want me to use regular toilet paper on you?" lol Micah said, "no, that's okay. I like these." That's my boy. He didn't cave under pressure. He wants to save the trees. ;0) My little tree hugger. YAY!!!

On the other hand, my beloved is really trying. We ran out of regular toilet paper the other day, and this is what he came home with.....

...recycled toilet paper. He said, "all in due time." So I'm not pushing. All in due time. ;0)

On another cloth note, I'm still taking lots of pictures to put up for the little family business. We are having lots of fun using the cloth napkins. They are working out great for us, and they are washing great. The only thing that I think might stain them is spaghetti sauce. I know it stains the boys' shirts. We haven't had a spaghetti stain on them yet.
They fold up just like regular sized napkins. I am having too much fun with them. This one is supposed to be like a candle. This was for one of the tea parties with the girls.

Here I was testing to see if I could stick some little utensils inside. It worked.
Anyway, I have a load of laundry calling my name, and then on to some crocheting. I hope you are having a great evening.