November 10, 2011
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While standing guard…
…I thought I would jot some things down. In the last post I wrote that I made laundry soap. Here are my thoughts on that. First it was really pretty easy to make. However when making it, I wondered if the bar of soap I was using was too small. As my laundry soap turned out very thin, next time I will either add another bar of soap or use less water. I have used 2 instead of one cup and it cleans pretty well. The clothes feel clean an smell good. As for stains, I think this is where adding borax/ boric acid helps, but otherwise, a good stain remover goes a long way in helping where the laundry soap I made couldn’t get some stains out. By stains, I mean the really stubborn kids like pasta sauce and the like. Since I learned the Japanese for boric acid, I have kept my eyes open for it. All the looking paid off, because I found some on the pharmacy. They keep it in the glass case at the register. I asked if I could buy a box, and she kindly rang it up for me. Next time I am ready to make laundry soap, I will give the boric acid a try to see how that helps to take the cleaning up a notch. Now that I am typing this, it occurred to me that I must have a scientific curiosity towards Linsey detergents. Remember, mom, 5th grade science fair project? How many different types of laundry soaps did I test? I remember using dish washer soap too as a test subject. Do you remember the little clothes line we created and those tiny wooden clothes pins we used to hang up the washed samples? I guess some things never change. This week was a bit strange, but I suppose they all are anymore. There was no school on Monday for the international school, so the kids that left for the long weekend came back late Monday night. I suppose Tuesday was normal, save that it felt more like a Monday. Wednesday, Corey and Skyler left for a church planting conference. One of our students went to Korea for a volleyball tournament, but we still have our month long boarder. My numbers are all mixes around for meal times. I have a cold which just figures. Tomo had a loose tooth but the permanent tooth was growing in already. That was causing a bit of pain for Tomo, so last night I spent the evening muscling it out. I won, tooth lost! It was either that or shuffle Tomo to the dentist the following morning. He really wanted to go pull sweet potatoes with his class, so he willingly let me yank that baby out. He was fine so long as I did not push down on the tooth. Problem solved except for the fact that he has lost three baby teeth and gained two permanent teeth and there is NO ROOM for any more permanent teeth. Tomorrow Tomo’s school has a field trip to the aquarium. He is excited. Now I need to go and get his things ready for the said field trip. Such is life for kindergarten moms. I am especially looking forward to getting him to the city hall for the bus pick up in the rain, with Maya, and my lovely head cold, by a certain time. Maya and I will make up for it by going shopping! Probably just window shopping, but it will be fun nonetheless. Not taking time to check over this post because I am doing it from my phone and proofing is hard to do on it. Hoping it is coherent and with out too many errors.
