California girl, transplanted and blooming in Utah. In recovery and loving life!
Did you know that cleaning your house is good for you health? Me either! As a matter of fact, there are times that I’m pretty sure cleaning my house is BAD for my health. Like the times when I am so frustrated by the lack of effort being put forth by other people in the house that I my blood pressure starts to boil….yeah…that can’t be good for my health. :-)
But if you go about it with the right state of mind and a couple of easy techniques, house cleaning can actually be stress-reducing!
I have had a couple of recipes rattling around in my computer for awhile now that I have wanted to try out. Not surprisingly, one of them involves LEMON. :-)
The first one is a recipe for lemon pudding that I adapted to make in the blender….and the other is more a “method” than a recipe for making whipped coconut cream!
One day I got the brilliant idea to combine the two and ended up with the creamiest, dreamiest concoction I think I’ve ever tasted – Lemon & Coconut Cream Mousse! Oh my!
It’s been a long time since I have addressed the subject of Homemade Dishwasher Detergent. I guess I felt like I’d said all there was to say on the subject. I have posted about my original Homemade Dishwasher Detergent, and my Revised Homemade Dishwasher Detergent, and my Homemade Dishwasher Soap (Not Detergent).
But yesterday I got a comment from a reader named Heather on Facebook who had made my Homemade Dishwasher Detergent and while she loved the way it worked, her user experience was less than ideal.
I have a confession to make. For someone who majored in “Communications”…I’m not very good at it. Actually, I’m a LOT better at it than I used to be…but let’s just say it’s still not my strongest suit.
But I’m not talking about the kind of communications I studied in college…I’m talking RELATIONSHIP (or interpersonal) communication. Some of the most difficult and frustrating communication you will ever participate in.
For the past several weeks I have been working on the book that I have been promising all of you. It’s taking longer than I ever imagined it would, so I apologize for that. But rest assured I am going as fast as I possibly can and I promise to keep you updated!
We eat a lot of potatoes in this house. Baked, fried, boiled, mashed….we’ve never met a potato dish we didn’t like. :-) But one of our FAVORITE ways to consume this starchy tuber is the traditional baked-in-the-oven way.
There’s just something about the perfect baked potato that is…well…perfect! But as simple as baking a potato sounds, the perfect baked potato doesn’t just happen. It actually took me quite a few years to realize that there was a certain “art” to it.
