Still, Don’t Actually EAT Your Dishwasher Detergent
This is a true story.
Or, rather, it’s true insomuch as I wasn’t there, and I heard it third hand, so I’m going to embellish a little on the unimportant parts. Why? Because it makes me feel important. I am the creator of this story.
Although, technically I’m not. The creator of this story, the instigator of this inspiring tale of relief, the mastermind behind all the knowing is none other than my 1-year-old niece, Holly Ann.
Thursday night, my sister, Lindsay, called me to tell me the story about Holly Ann and the Not-So-Terrible Dishwasher Detergent.
It goes a little something like this:
Last Wednesday night, as I was watering my two prize-winning, Volkswagon-sized basil plants (I told you I would embellish … my basil, while still alive, is more the size of a shoe), the phone rang and I didn’t answer.
This part is true. I did not answer the first time. Don’t judge me.
Anyway, the second time she called, I did answer. Yay me.
“Leslie,” my sister said, “My daughter, your niece, Holly Ann, ate dishwasher detergent tonight.”
Tuesdays Outside the Box: Borax? And Taming Wild Hair
Shoot. Running behind today – bit off more than I can chew. So, without further ado, the third of four Tuesdays Outside the Box: Today featuring things to do with Borax and handy ways to fix oily, unruly, or otherwise unsavory hair. Yay!
You know the drill by now, right?
If you have a blog post that fits into these categories (using borax or taking care of your hair), you can add them at the end – so EVERYONE can enjoy your genius. If you don’t have a blog, leave a handy-dandy comment at the bottom with your favorite ways to handle either of these things.
I’m going to start backward today, because I’m jazzed about the first “outside” the box idea and I’ve been waiting to share this with you guys for months. It just never seemed to be the right time.
SO.
Community Question: To Placebo or Not To Placebo With Your Wily Kids?
Dear Crunchy Betty,
I need for you to come up with a way to deceive my kids. Yes, indeedy. So many nights during bedtime I get the “Mommy, my hand is aching” or “Mommy, my toe feels weird. I need medicine.”
And so I need you to come up with a tonic that I can give them so they’ll be happy and go to sleep thinking they’ve taken some real medicine. I’m thinking honey, obviously, because it has to be more alluring than that grape-flavored kid’s Tylenol which, even to me, smells like children’s crack. And something else, so it looks like I made a real tonic for them.
40 Hot Homemade Gift Ideas for the Holidays: First Up, Kids
Yes. You heard me. FORTY gift ideas – and not just the best present ideas from Crunchy Betty, but from all over the internet. All spread out over this week.
Last year, as a gift to you, I offered the free printable recipe cards for household and beauty recipes. This year, I offer you an abundance that you can give away (or make for yourself … please don’t be shy). We’re talking women and children and – yes – even men here.
To start with, we’re going to focus on the kids.
I’m your curator of crunchiness this week, so sit back, relax, and start making plans to go UBER natural and full of good old fashioned love this holiday season.
Quick Homemade Vapor Rub
Life is what happens when you’re making other plans.
I think you’ll agree that quote is, perhaps, the most eye-crossingly, nose-whistlingly boring saying ever.
And … also … so annoyingly true.
Despite my kajillion ideas of things to do in Kansas City with my nephews, not a single thing has been seen through to completion yet. Until today, when my youngest nephew, Sully, decided it was time to get ill. And not Beastie Boys style.
He woke up this morning with a bit of a cough and a runny nose.
By 6:30 this evening, my mother and I were crouched over his sad little sniffly body, plotting how we’d get him to keep his feet in garlic water while dripping hydrogen peroxide in his ears while pouring Umcka down his sad mouth. All before my sister could come home and stop us before we made his feet stinky and his ears bubble.
(My mother is VERY serious about her HUG cure.)
While we never really got around to garlic dipping or hydrogen peroxide curing, I did find a moment to make Sullivan some homemade vapor rub.
Here’s how.
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