Thanks everyone for your uplifting comments!  Even the sun is out for a minute here this morning!

To be discreet, chaste, keepers at home, good, obedient to their own husbands, that the word of God be not blasphemed. Titus 2:5

Since you are onto a laundry problem, Anyone try the homemade laundry detergent?? I just made my 3rd batch and still love it.........and the money I'm saving.

Kevin, where in SW Ohio do you live? We are in Xenia.

Probably!!!!

This doll thing made me think of this: Being the parent of a big age span of children is interesting, most of the time now it seems that not much is new, we tend to stick with tried and true. Typically there is very little that the younger children do that is surprising.  Usually something new would still be some stage that our 20 year old would be in - just an off the wall thought that came from this topic!!! 

I was just talking with my husband about the fact that I am feeling, like (not sure of what one word would fill in the blank) I wash the same clothes, dishes etc over and over.  I have a list of regular routine stuff I need to do but my motivation is just gone.  Here's my list, the boys need haircuts, more bread to make, the girls clothes need to gone through, which means more sewing to do, birthday gifts to make, bills to pay (the same ol' ones), another supper to put on the table using the same old boring ingredients.... etc.  Doesn't match my Bible verse signature much, huh!!

So how do the rest of you cope with the "same ol" syndrome?  Kevin, you found a new stain remover...     

To be discreet, chaste, keepers at home, good, obedient to their own husbands, that the word of God be not blasphemed. Titus 2:5

Folex, is a carpet cleaner that works on ink stains too. My husband had a pair of cotton trousers that had a really dark ink stain, we think maybe from a Sharpie.  It took some elbow grease but the Folex worked, without damaging the trousers.   

Hey, you read that tip right here Luv!  That's what I recommended, I am glad to hear that it worked for you!  It's a method that's been around a long while, I found it out from a fancy doll store we used to have in the area, probably 12 years ago.

Disclaimer:  You couldn't use this method on clothing or fabric  though, it would bleach any color from the fabric.  I know that for a couple reasons, one, just knowing the properties of peroxide is a bleach and two, my older daughter has ruined many pillowcases and clothing because of using benzoyl peroxide on her acne.     

To be discreet, chaste, keepers at home, good, obedient to their own husbands, that the word of God be not blasphemed. Titus 2:5

"Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, but today is a gift... that's why they call it the present."

I am a big proponent of Shout Advanced, but I doubt it would take out ink!  That is amazing!!  I lost some clothes when I left some pens in my scrub pockets :P  Boy was I mad.

 Just an FYI for parents.  My daughter (2 year old) drew all over her Baby Alive doll at Christmas Eve church with a pen, just a couple of hours after getting it at our family party.  (I was helping with the children's nativity, Daddy was taking pictures...and Bella took that opprotunity to do some coloring on her doll!)  She drew all over its face, arms, etc with the black ball-point pen.  I had read a remedy on the Internet, so I tried it:

Cover all of the ink with a layer of acne cream containing 10% benzoin peroxide (I bought the $2.99 tube from Walmart) and place under a lamp.   Let it sit under the lamp for 3 or 4 hours, and the ink just disappears!  I was up that night late getting things ready for Christmas morning, so I just left the doll.  I checked it a few times and the ink was still there...but the last time I check it it was just gone!  No trace of it in the acne cream or anything.  People on the Internet say that they have used this with vintage plastic/rubber dolls and with new ones with success.  A great tip if your kid destroys an expensive dolly :-)