This summer has been really awesome. Start it all off with a trip to Greece-it can't get better than that! (Check out the cute photo of Tony and me in Paros.) Last summer sucked-I did get married which was awesome but I wasn't working and had a teaching contract but wasn't getting paid b/c I hadn't started yet; blah blah blah. I was bored and too broke to do anything about it. Anyways this summer I'm rich-just kidding-but I have stayed a perfect balance of productive and relaxed.
My biggest goal this summer was to revamp all of our photo albums and scrapbooks and to create a wedding album. I have successfully accomplished this goal and all of our photos and memories are preserved and beautifully displayed in albums-check. I also had a goal to do some gardening and I got a huge pot and planted some herbs that are growing too fast for us to eat-check. I have taken some great vacations other than Greece such as Disney World and I am going to VA to visit Hilary next week and my house is immaculately clean-check, check.
The only thing left that I want to do is to cover the window on our front door with some type of cloudy screen thing-it has a name but I'm not sure what it is. Oh yeah-Tony and I also put new super organized shelving in our closet and I reorganized all of my jewelry into trays in my wardrobe. Wow-I've been super-productive this summer. It hasn't been all work though-I've had my share of tv watching and laying out by the pool.
I've always had aspirations of making my own cleaners at home and I have started doing that as well. It is actually way cheaper than buying them at the store and if you've read my previous posts you know I love non-toxic, eco-friendly cleaning solutions. The one I use the most is an all purpose bathroom or kitchen cleaner. It is the easiest, cheapest thing you can imagine; equal parts water to vinager. I got a gigantic bottle of vinager at Target for about 2 dollars and free water from the tap and put them in an old spray bottle from my store bought cleaning solution that ran out. It works better on mirrors than anything I've ever used and keeps my shower clean longer. It does smell like vinager so don't use it right before you have guests over but the smell goes away in a few hours.
Another that I've used is a fabric whitener. I didn't want to buy bleach b/c anything that smells like it will burn my nose hairs probably isn't that good for me and honestly I'm pretty sure I would ruin stuff with it. I found a recipe used for whitening fabrics that consists of soaking said fabrics in a solution of 1 tablespoon salt and 1/4 cup baking soda. These are all things that we have at home anyways and nothing toxic or damaging about that. I soaked my white towels for an hour and it worked pretty good. The only thing I will change is that I may soak them in hot water next time instead of cold.
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