Stuff I Like #1

So, I have three kids.  Ya, you knew that, but I needed to remind you anyway.  I have three kids who are just like all other kids - they love to play, they love to run, and most importantly, they love to make messes. Now, Liam, my sweet, handsome boy and eldest, manages to keep his messes to merely toys being scattered all over the floor - usually in his room.  This I can deal with.  That kind of mess is easy because he can clean it up himself.  But my two girls are another story.  They like to make messes of a different sort.  Oh, Leila does her fair share of leaving toys out (although she tends to spread them ALL over the house), but she is a pro at making a mess of herself and her clothes during any and every meal.  This girl can get strawberry jam in places I didn't even know she had! :-)  She is always a mess after a meal - sometimes I just have to take her straight to the bath.

Libby doesn't play with toys just yet, and she doesn't eat strawberry jam just yet, but she still manages to make HUGE messes with none else than her POOP!!!!  Of my three kids, I have had the most trouble with her getting her poop all over her clothes, blankets, sheets, car seat, swing, etc.  I have tried several different brands of diapers, I am always checking her diaper is put on right, I change her as often as needed, and still, she manages to get poop all over herself and clothes.  She, too, has been given unplanned baths on many occasions.

Now, with these messes that my daughters make comes one annoying and hard to deal with problem - stains.  If you have ever had a baby, you know that their poop is not quite "normal" in color and texture compared to adults (sorry about getting detailed and graphic, but it is necessary for my purpose!).  So, she often gets these lovely yellow stains all over her onesies.  I, like most moms, double layer my babies with a onesie under their outer clothes.  She manages to stain not only the underneath onesie, but the top one too, as well, as her pants AND socks.  Leila manages to get jam and other sundry items all over her shirts, pants AND socks as well, too.  With all the messes they make, I would have to have bought them both a whole new wardrobe by now if it weren't for this first product of stuff I like.  If it weren't for this, I just don't know what I would do.

So, what is this wonderful, stain removing, sanity keeping product your may ask?  I'll tell you.  It is none other than.....

Fels-Naptha!

Oh, I just LOVE this stuff!  Now, first I must tell you that I am laughing because we always tease my mom about this stuff.  Fels-Naptha has been around for many, many moons, and my mom has use it for many, many moons.  She used it on all of our baby clothes, among other things.  So I am laughing because my mom is always talking about how she is going to use Fels-Naptha, or how we should use it, etc.  But, as much as we laugh about it, it is really great stuff.

I am not exactly sure what it is about it that works so great, but it is wonderful.  I use it on all of my stains and it gets everything out.  Now, if the stain has been there for like a year, it probably won't work, but I have used it on some of Libby's poop stains from three days prior and it still has gotten everything out!  Leila's strawberry jam stains come out just fine.  Blueberry, blackberry too.  I have used Fels-Naptha on other things too.  When Matt and I were living in our trailer, and we were painting the bedrooms - and we got some paint on beige carpet - I used it and viola, the paint was gone.  It even got RED paint out of the carpet!  This stuff is great!

There is also a great recipe for homemade laundry soap (which, by the way, is the same soap the Duggars on 19 Kids and Counting use - just FYI!)  that uses Fels-Naptha which I have made and used often, as well as my sis-in-laws, and it is great stuff.  Two other awesome things about it are:  it smells very nice - fresh and clean - and it is also very, very inexpensive!  I believe in most places one bar (which lasts me several months) is only just over $1!!!  How can you beat that!

So, the first product I wanted to feature was Fels-Naptha.  Try it.  I am pretty sure you like it.  If you don't let me know, and I will tell you to try it again!  It is really and truly "Stuff I Like!"

Until next time...