The Rabb's Farm Life Adventures

I only have two "followers" of my blog, but I know that you are reading my posts, so thank you very much!  I would love to have you "follow" me, so if you are so inclined, please click on the link to follow me along this journey.  I was thinking how funny my week was so I had to share some of the humor.   Our countertops were finally installed this week and the final touches completed on the cabinets.  During the process, we discovered that the outlet to the new dishwasher wasn't hot.  Meaning, there wasn't any power going to it.  We knew we needed to contact our electrician friend and have him take a look at it for us.  He gladly came by and fixed the problem.  After he left, however, our bigger problem ensued.  We lost power to our bedroom.  I mean all power, no lights no outlets, which means, no alarm clock, no heater, or blow dryer, etc.  We didn't discover the problem until right around bedtime so we decided to deal with it the next day.  It was

I have been reading posts on Facebook recently about homemade laundry detergent.  We like the idea homemade so I thought, why not?  I made my first batch today.  I must say the process was very easy and I am excited to try it the next time we do laundry.    One of the major eye openers for us since moving to Louisiana has been how much less laundry we do now.  Christopher lives with my parents and Stephanie is away at school so we only have laundry for three now.  It is shocking.  We have five children and though we have never had all five of them at home at the same time, we have had our share of laundry to do.  I remember when we first became a family, laundry piles were large!  It would take all day to do all the laundry, and that didn't mean that it would all be complete at the end of the day.  Today, when we did the laundry we only had two large and one small load.  What a difference!   Most of the recipes I found were basically the same.  The one I used was from Living on