Jeanna's Motherhood Journey: cleaning old books

Our journey so far

*June 08- off BCP
*August 08- stopped not trying
*October 08-actively really trying
*May 09-long cycle took provera to bring AF
*June 09-began BBT and Charting
*July 09-S/A & HSG normal
*September 09-dr apt, plan: 3 cycles of Clomid 50mg; start on CD3 for 5 days, P4 b/w; about to start Clomid when miracle BFP on 9-21-09!!!! What a great Birthday present!
*10-15-09 TWINS!
*1-7-2010 Big U/S found no heartbeats
*1-8-2010 Began Induction
*1-9-2010 at 4:30 and 5:03 am Baby Boys Holmes were born and loved forever.
*2-11-10 against Drs orders, trying again
*3-13-10 BFN
*4-19-10 BFN
*5-15-10 BFN
*5-18-10 First round of Clomid
*5-31-10 Twins Due Date
*6-11-10 BFP @12DPO-Beta 35.6
*6-15-10 16DPO-Beta 338
*7-7-10 6 months to the day of our last U/S confirmed one baby one heartbeat.
*7-23-10 2nd u/s with strong heartbeat!
*9-22-10 Lil Spark is a........BOY; Owen Cobb is on his way here!
*12-13-10 Still a boy at a healthy 3.5 lbs!
*2-11-11 scheduled c/s @ 3:15pm, water broke at 10:30am, born 1:48pm!

Monday, October 3, 2011

cleaning old books

I have a huge list of projects for around the house,

Next up was cleaning up my old childhood books-

Little Golden Books

Dr. Seuss

Disney Books

Some books that were my moms...Owen's Neanna's Books!

The problem is they were dusty and smelled horrible they had that mildew STINK. After scouring the internet I think I found my solution!

First, I wiped the books with one of those prewet disposable wipes.

Then, I tried the microwave trick, its goal is to remove the moisture and therefore the stink....well, little golden books do have some metal in that gold finish! So they make some crazy sparks if you are not careful. Big fat FAIL!

Success came when I did the following:

place dryer sheets between the pages of each book

put the books into gallon freezer bags

put the bags in the freezer for a week

took them out of the bags and put into the sun for an afternoon

I am amazed that they now don't stink like mildew....maybe a little too much like laundry, but they are definitely up to par for my standard of acceptable smelliness!