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Saturday, February 9, 2013

Bubbles in Your Belly

This past fall, Mom went down to North Carolina to explore some farms with a good friend. She brought back all sorts of fun goodies. One of the great finds was a homemade goats milk soap made with lavender. It was shaped like a regular bar of soap, but was a dark brown and had pieces of lavender floating in it.
welll, one afternoon I was in the kitchen cooking and had music playing. I had Dad in my peripheral vision, but just didn't notice when he grabbed the bar of soap, unwrapped it from its plastic and took a big bite out of it! I stopped him as quickly as I could (one bite in) but he refused to spit it out! I couldn't believe it, he just gulped it all down. I forced him to drink three glasses of water and gave him very bland food the rest of the day to quell his belly but I'm sure it was not nice coming out! For whatever reason it worked well enough, so there wasn't really any repercussions for us.

Now for  the less fun part of the soap eating..

To start, I recently got into trying to do things myself. I've made my own laundry detergent, soap, fabric softner, and dog food... so far. It's rewarding, not too difficult, and definitely saves money. Lord knows we could use a few extra bucks every month!
Well, this soap I've gotten into, I make with honey and oatmeal. The base is goats milk and oh my goodness does it smell great! I've been putting it into a small dish as a mold and it turns out like this:


Well, with Dad's addiction to eating everything he can find, one morning it seems he snuck into the kitchen ( which is one place he is NOT allowed, but mom missed him while I was still asleep). There was a bar of my new soap in the dish by the sink.  By the time I woke up and started doing some things in the kitchen, this bar was long gone. Luckily, we had plenty of soap that we could still use. The bad news, his belly was not happy at all. Thankfully, we have him wear depends. Not thankfully, he& the bathroom were a mess. An hour later, a shower, a vinegar cleansing, and washing sheets/clothes/my eyes, the worst of it was over.

Soap will be hidden even more than before.

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