Week

Lauren got to mow the lawn with Dad today. She was so sweet and helpful! It probably had something to do with the photo shoot happening all around her.

Lauren's cake all served up

(on her own dishes).

Lauren, icing a cake for the first time

All by herself!

The pesky animals always come

That belly needs some cake.

The end product.
Good job baby!

Silas and the first love of his life: Karate Kid. He's obsessed.

He is watching Karate Kid Part 2 as I type.

This week, Poor Claire endured her first sunburn. Poor baby. You can still see a little bit of rosy on her cheeks from it.

So you wanna know what I used on it? VINEGAR. It sounds like it would sting-because of the acid, but it is actually very soothing to a burn. Call me crazy. Its o.k. my husband thinks so too.

Sometimes I feel like the dad from the movie My Big Fat Greek Wedding, except his thing was Windex (which doesn't even touch vinegar in my opinion). If you don't remember, watch the movie. Its cute.

Jake hates vinegar with a passion (He can't stand how it smells). He didn't seem to notice it on her though, and I think it helped.

I also use vinegar to clean our counters because it is the only non-streaking cleaner for the granite (even Windex didn't work!) It is our window cleaner, table cleaner (safe for the kids to use when helping out!), and it really does the trick. Its astringent properties make it safe-even for meat juices and on cutting boards.

I put a cup in every load of laundry because our river water is soft, and prone to making our laundry mildew smelling. The vinegar makes our laundry smell like nothing (unless perhaps it spills out quickly spills. Then you can smell it for sure).

What do you use it for? c'mon I know I'm not the only one!
Oh, another great vinegar trick: Fungus killer!

My poor lemon tree has been attacked by fungus especially hard this year.

See the black stuff on the branch? Its all over the leaves too.

I have been using my vinegar spray on it.

(about 1/4 c vinegar and a squirt of dish soap, and filled to the top with water)
I actually have lots of healthy new growth since I started spraying.
I think its slowly removing the black stuff too, but that could be my vinegar bias getting to me.

I am ready for a new week and new weather. We were not able to get out much because of the Rain. There was a TON of rain. This does not sit well with a 3 & 4 year old, or with their mom.

Say Say oh sunshine, come out and play with me

Bring back my sanity

dry out my lemon tree

come in my window

dance in my living room

were going nuts inside

now's not too soon!