Archive for the ‘Referrals’ Category

Washable toddler diapers

Wednesday, September 26th, 2007

For future reference:

Gerber All In One Waterproof Trainers
Gerber webpage

Cheapest price so far (same as at Babies R Us if I recall correctly, about $7):
Store webpage

The Google link:
Google search results

Thank God for friends!

Sunday, August 12th, 2007

Steve recommends this site: http://www.christthekingabbey.org/

Thanks for sharing your spiritual wisdom and letting us feed you and playing with our daughter today! We hope to welcome you back soon.

Links to close tabs

Wednesday, July 18th, 2007

I need to close most of the tabs on my Konqueror window so here are some links for my benefit, if not yours:
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Solving an ant infestation

Saturday, June 9th, 2007

When you open that package on your counter that you thought you had so cleverly protected by putting the opening upside down and find your cookies swarming with ants…do not fear! No, don’t eat them either, but do not panic or get angry. There are methods you can enlist to help you defeat the little crawling intruders.

*Seal everything. Put cereal into plastic or other (glass?) containers and make sure the lids seal well. Put flour bags into other bags and tie the outer bags, and put your other baking ingredients, like other flour, sugar, brown sugar, salt, etc. into properly sized containers made and sold for that purpose. Mine are hand-me-downs from my mother and they work wonderfully.

*Check your dishes before you put them back into the cupboard.

*Start using a designated ant rag. I am using this idea from a friend and I am so happy with it. My ant rag is pink and I hope the ants have come to fear it! Once you have a few dozen ants squished or otherwise captured on it, you can take it over to the sink and wash them all down the drain. Mwahahahaha!!!

*Rotate and check your cup before you drink out of it, even if you have been holding it the whole time. Ants can be sneaky and one almost crawled onto my face the other day via my water cup.

*If you must leave food out on the counter, be sure it is properly covered. I baked banana bread yesterday for Luke’s birthday today and there is a big bowl over the baking pan. Normally I put it in a big plastic bag; I just haven’t done that yet.

*Throw away your soiled napkins and kleenexes. Take out the trash as soon as it is full enough. Pick up bits of food you see on the floor, table and counter and throw or wash them away. Clean your pots and pans until they are squeaky clean before they go back on the stove or their storage to wait to be used again, so they do not attract bugs. Make the extra effort to avoid spraying with chemicals.

*Teach your children and pets that the bugs you are trying to kill off are not friends. Let them see you dispose of them.

Thank God for FlyLady!

Friday, May 20th, 2005

FlyLady
Reasons to become a FLYBaby:
your sinks will be clean
you will become more generous (yay, 27 Fling Boogie!)
you will know what SHE, DH, BO, FLY, DS, etc. mean
you will learn to stop procrastinating - or at least procrastinate less
after a while you won’t remember how messy your home was
you’ll be able to see the floor in every room - no clutter allowed here!
you will have time to have fun again
you will be reminded at least once per day to eat and get some exercise
you will enjoy thoughts like “I can make my home cleaner than Mom’s! This is easy and fun!”

my Mother my Confidence,
Corinne

Great links

Thursday, February 17th, 2005

Hello! Here are two wonderful articles to check out, emailed to me by a friend:

1, on Catholic Exchange

2, on Catholic Online

Here are two encyclicals everyone should read, which I haven’t finished yet:

1: Humanae Vitae (Pope Paul VI’s encyclical dated July 1968, “On The Regulation of Birth”)

2: Familiaris Consortio (Pope John Paul II’s encyclical dated 11.22.1981, “On the Christian Family in the Modern World”)

Last but certainly not least, a store that Luke and I might buy from:

Leaflet Missal Company, an online Catholic store

Goodnight and may God bless you abundantly,
Corinne -Jr