So, I posted a little while ago about making some homemade dish soap...well, it wasn't a total bust....I had to tweak it a little bit.. The recipe was as follows...
1/4 Cup Felz Naphtha Soap
2 Cups Water
1 TBL Spoon Vinegar
You melt the soap in the 2 cups of water, on the stove, but don't let it boil...That part was easy. Then you added the vinegar and let it cool, that was all fine and well...but when it came time to wash the dishes, I found that it left my dishes still greasy feeling...Not cool...So to my mixture, I added a tablespoon of vinegar, and a tablespoon of Borax...It seemed to help...now it works!! Yay!!
So I have been reading different posts on facebook, as well as watching different couples in public. What I have learned while just sitting back is that there a lot of women are tearing down their husbands instead of building them up. I am a very fortunate wife, and my husband works very hard to support our growing family. I know that sometimes I let stuff pile up around the house sometimes, but he doesn't nag me for it. But it's almost as us being women, if a man forgets to do something, we nag and nag and nag. I got to thinking, what if the shoe were on the other foot, and husbands began nagging the wives about backed up dishes, or backed up laundry, or sandy floors? It wouldn't go over to well, would it? I love what the last part of Ephesians 5 says: 21 Submitting yourselves one to another in the fear of God.
22 Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord.
23 For the husband is the head of the wife, even as Christ is the head of the church: and he is the saviour of the body.
24 Therefore as the church is subject unto Christ, so let the wives be to their own husbands in every thing.
25 Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it;
26 That he might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the word,
27 That he might present it to himself a glorious church, not having spot, or wrinkle, or any such thing; but that it should be holy and without blemish.
28 So ought men to love their wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his wife loveth himself.
29 For no man ever yet hated his own flesh; but nourisheth and cherisheth it, even as the Lord the church:
30 For we are members of his body, of his flesh, and of his bones.
31 For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall be joined unto his wife, and they two shall be one flesh.
32 This is a great mystery: but I speak concerning Christ and the church.
33 Nevertheless let every one of you in particular so love his wife even as himself; and the wife see that she reverence her husband.
God took woman from man, not to be walked over but to fit under his arm, and to work together. Life deals some pretty hard cards, and we should work them out together, hand in hand. Husbands are a gift from God, and I know I hardly ever take the time out to say thank you to my husband, but I do thank God for a man that works so hard, and who leads his family under God, and the Bible. Thank God I got a Godly Man :) This song is an awesome song and I pray that our kids see their daddy like I do!
So, as a stay at home wife, and soon to be mother, I try to come up with ways to save money for our family. One of the ways we do save money is make homemade laundry soap. It makes 10 gallons, which lasts us forever. Now I'm on the hunt to make homemade Dish Soap. I will let you know as soon as I find something. I may even have to come up with my own. But I'm willing to try anything once. :D
So as you all know I had to go for my Glucose test. Well the night before, we had revival at our church, and we had some refreshments afterwards. Well, there was some tuna salad there that looked sooooo good, so I at a little bit with 4...count them...1...2...3...4 Ritz crackers. That was it. I hadn't eaten anything sugary or high in carbs at all that day. Well anyways. I drank the Glucola stuff (which wasn't that bad, by the way) and sat there and waited to get my blood drawn. Then I went home. Well the next day I received a call from my Doctor's office, and my number was 134....it's supposed to be 130....how much was I over? Count it 1...2...3...4....Ugh. lol; So now I go back next week for the 3 hour test. Luckily I have Netflix on my phone!!
So yesterday I went for my glucose test. I was pretty nervous since I read a million horror stories about reactions. I began drinking the drink on the way there, and it was not that bad. It actually tasted like a melted orange Popsicle. I don't know if I was the only one that the glucola burnt my throat, but after I finished it my throat was on fire. But it went away after a few minutes. So now it's just a sit and wait kinda thing.
So there is a song called Stand Still by the Isaac's. This is an amazing song and it has reached out an touched me today. We got some news the other day (nothing major or to do with the pregnancy) but it kind of brought us both down...But God has a way of working everything out in His time. I know he has a plan for us and we will be where he wants us...we've just got to keep on praying for what we need. He knows our future and he knows what we need. Stand Still by The Isaac's
So I know most of you out there have a pinterest account, and if you don't, you're just plain crazy. It makes life soooo much easier...If you don't just go on a pinning spree, and actually do some of the stuff. I recently found this pin on there. I mean the title said "Cut your grocery bill in half", and who doesn't want to do that right? So I clicked on it and looked at it and it had some AMAZING ideas....all about going homemade! Randall and I have been making our own bread for a while, since my mom gave us a bread machine(tastes way better) But anyways, I read on in this blog, and it had so much more about going homemade & had a lot of tips on grocery shopping. Go once a month, and you make your meals at home, so you cut out the cost of going out to eat (we are worlds worst at doing that) But anyways, what you do is pull out different recipes that you have collected from Pinterest, cookbooks, and such (I use a lot of my papa's and my moms too!) But anyways, you take inventory of what you already have in your house, and then you write down what you need from the grocery store, and you plan out for one month of meals...so you are only having to go to the store one time a month...who would've thought. In plus, you can use a web site like www.couponmom.com to see if any of the items you need have a coupon for them...On nights you don't feel like cooking (we all have those nights) You can have sandwich nights, or, breakfast for supper...(who doesn't love breakfast for supper?) Any who, I've added the link to this blog...it has so many ideas....http://www.blissfulanddomestic.com/2012/03/31-days-to-yumminess-grocery-shopping.html?showComment=1342681248761
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Now, I shall go finish cleaning, and go ahead and get started on dinner :D
