DIY: Liquid laundry detergent

I have been making homemade laundry detergent for quite awhile now, but recently saw this post on Facebook how to make liquid laundry detergent with the same ingredients as I was already using, now I just add hot water. :)


This is the recipe:
 Mom's Super Laundry Sauce
Recipe adapted from Whipped Laundry Concentrate

~ This makes 1/2 Gallon of concentrate ~
~ Btw, that's a full 128 loads of laundry!! ~

1 bar Fels Naptha (Yes, the ENTIRE Bar!)
1 cup 20 Mule Team Borax
1 cup Arm & Hammer Washing Soda (NOT BAKING SODA!!)
4 cups of hot water 

I made it today for the first time and this is how it turned out.

I put the jars on my blender and walla, its laundry sauce!

I love it so far, I will tell you how its doing in a couple of weeks.
 Have a great day!!

My traveling slideshow

A blog for today, I thought I would share with everyone. This slideshow is made so I can show my kids one day all the places I traveled to. :)

Christmas Fun and New YeAr!

Visiting Joshs Aunt & Uncles hobby farm!

Conner and Aunt Brenda waited and waited for the chicken to lay an egg and just before we left Conner went to look and there was a beautiful blue egg!! He was so excited!

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Our backyard!

Recognize this? I took this and my mom ended up using this as her Christmas card.

I put Almond oil in my hair and it made my hair so soft.  I have heard almond oil is really good for the hair and Coconut oil and if you are trying to get your hair to grow out you put Peppermint oil on it too!

This is my heart necklace Conner found and he insisted I put a pic of him and me in it, so cute!

The walk-in closet project!!

What a mess!

It took us forever to remove all this. 

The boys helped a bit too. 

Hole in the wall!

Going to get our Christmas tree!

Back to closet

Lookin good. ( By the way Josh came home after work and said lets get the walk in closet done and I couldn't believe it, but said ok if thats what you wanna do and we got it done in a week!

We got this and free chapstick after getting a tree! @ BEES&TREES

Getting closer!

Putting up tree decorations!

Baking, baking, baking!

Lemon snowdrops!

What he was waiting for....

 Josh recently got the deer he was waiting for, a 8 point buck, a monster too. At first he thought he got a little buck then he went up close and O WOW, he couldn't believe his eyes, the buck he has been waiting 14 years ( he was 12 the last time he got a nice buck) to get this deer. He will most definitely be getting it mounted, and of course now we will have lots of meat so we just went and bought a big freezer.
 We had our first Thanksgiving at our new house this year, it was a fun time. Me and Conner helped at St. Joes just before our Thanksgiving at home started to help serve Thanksgiving meals to those who needed it. A wonderful time to help serve others and Conner really liked helping and drawing place mats for the tables. I will do this with my boys every year from now on, what a great thing to do. I had a couple of people grab my hand and thank me ever so kindly before we left. It is touching to see people that thankful. :) And Im so glad Conner got to experience some of that too.
 Thanksgiving lunch was a hit and I got everyone to sit at the same table this year, yay. I know it sounds silly but Joshs side of the family usually eats while watching tv during a thanksgiving meal, which is ok sometimes but on Thanksgiving at my house I really wanted to be all together at the table. Thats just how I see and like Thanksgiving or any holiday to be, its a way to talk and get to know each other better I think, just the right thing to do. Per avere la conversazione e il vino. ;)
Anyways now on to a Christmas party here in a couple a weeks again, let the cleaning begin again.
 I hope everyone had a wonderful Thanksgiving and were able to have thankful heart moments. :)

Thanksgiving 2013

The moon taken by my new camera!

Conner teaching Carter letters

The monster 8 pt. buck!

The deer stand we went bow hunting in again. When I saw how high it was I said are you joking, but hey I climbed it.

This is what we see almost everyday outside our window. They're our new neighbors, lol.

Helping serve at St. Joes for Thanksgiving 

Rainbow is 1!

She looks thrilled, doesn't she?!?

Family pis with the monster buck

I worked hard for this shirt. This is my "I conquered  Barron County shirt". This was for all the 3 and 5 k run/ walks I did.

I went to Farm and Fleet for 2 things today on Black firday :/, but I found one of my favorite movies and it was on sale today for 3 bucks! Yay, I was happy to get a couple good sales.