Wednesday, 06 May 2009
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For the love of chores...
...well, speaking for our children - the chores they love would include anything that involves wiping, scrubbing, and especially spraying. Translation: they don't get so excited about cleaning up their toys or papers. However, I couldn't help but want to quickly snap just several pictures (in fact here are all three of them I took) today of our children so anxiously cleaning our rug in the living room after it had some loose leakage from Claire's diaper get on it. Unfortunately that is part of the virus that we (and almost every other child we're close to) has dealt with to some extent over the last two weeks. Just when I thought we were passed it Joseph woke with an upset tummy last night and lets just say it wasn't good. I ended up setting him up a bed on the living room floor (that's what you see in the background of the third pic) and slept on the couch near him for the rest of the night. Joseph has seemed fine today and very playful despite him and Claire having some loose bowels. I didn't write this post to announce that to the world though! I'm writing this post because of how tickled I got over Joseph so sweetly saying, "Mom, I'd be happy to help you clean that up." Those were his exact words, when really what he was saying was "Mom, pleeeeeeease let me help you." After I got Claire all cleaned up with a quick shower, Joseph went to spraying my favorite all purpose non-toxic cleaner for me while I scrubbed it in with a rag to help get the stains out of the carpet. Claire caught on and was helping her little heart out as she scrubbed here and scrubbed there (and anywhere really). It wasn't long before the "fun" drew Natalie in as well. I didn't want to use a flash and obviously they were moving so the pictures are blurry, but I didn't mean for these pictures to be pretty! I took them to preserve a memory for my mother's heart. Quite frankly I'm tired of cleaning up after this virus and them jumping to the occasion with such "JOY" just made my day. Not one of these pictures is staged.
Okay, I'm going to go ahead and do some advertising for the cleaner that I love. It's AFM SafeChoice (concentrated) Super Clean all purpose cleaner & degreaser. It contains no phosphates, alkalines, acids, ammonia, butyl ethers, chlorine bleach, nor any chemical scents used to mask the odors caused by such harsh compounds. It is people safe (though you CANNOT drink it!) It claims it does not irritate sensitive skin, nor does it give off noxious fumes (I can verify that - I can't even stand Simple Green fumes) yet it is strong enough for industrial strength cleaning chores. For routine home cleaning you dilute 20:1 (20 parts water to 1 part cleaner). This is so easy to have ready in a spray bottle for whenever needed. I'm a firm believer in using natural things such as baking soda, vinegar, and peroxide for cleaning as well, but I just LOVE having this spray ready and handy at all times without the smell that vinegar has. It does a GREAT job at taking out smells even though it doesn't really have any scent (I have experienced it taking care of a urine smell on a cushion, mattress, or carpet instantly)! Last week it got ball point pen off my sofa! I've used it on counters, sinks, refrigerator, stove, tub, shower, tile, to clean my painted walls, doors, and as you know to clean my sofa and carpet. I just LOVE it. I mainly love that when I use it that it doesn't leave a fumy scent lingering in the room or house. You can use it for heavy duty cleaning jobs diluted at half cleaner/half water for jobs such as ovens, lime deposits, soap scum, mold and mildew stains, grills, engines, grout, concrete (I should test it on the oil stain on our driveway!), laundry (I've never tried it out on laundry, but I've always meant to experiement with it on baby clothes and kids stains), decks, smoke stains, and pet odors.
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