Single Adult Home Evening

SINGLE ADULT HOME EVENING SCHEDULE  MAY - JULY

	Month/Day	Host	Activity/Lesson	Spiritual Thought	Snacks
	27-Apr-15	PLANNING	Schedule	Nina	All
	4-May-15	Maggie	BINGO- Bring White Elephant Gift		All
	11-May-15	Von			All
	18-May-15	Bishop Swanger	Meet the Apostles	Dallin Oaks	All
	25-May-15	Barb Terry	Food Storage		All
	1-Jun-15	Mike Brown	Movie		All
	8-Jun-15	Tom Benner	Lesson		All
	15-Jun-15	Bro Steve Brown	Meet the Apostles	Elder Christofferson	All
	22-Jun-15	Linda Janssen	Bunco		All
	29-Jun-15	COMBINED	Mingling with the Missionaries		All
	6-Jul-15	Sandy	Lesson		All
	13-Jul-15	Kimberly			All
	20-Jul-15		Meet the Apostles		All
	27-Jul-15	Barb Terry	Game Night		All
	3-Aug-15	PLANNING			All
	10-Aug-15	Dawn Johnson	Provident Living		All
	17-Aug-15	Bro Don Mack Pearson	Meet the Apostles	Elder Holland	All
	24-Aug-15				All
	31-Aug-15				All
	7-Sep-15				All
	14-Sep-15				All
	21-Sep-15		Meet the Apostles		All
	28-Sep-15				All
	5-Oct-15				All
	12-Oct-15				All
	19-Oct-15		Meet the Apostles		All
	26-Oct-15				All

Homemade laundry soap

I've been asked a few times how do you make homemade laundry soap?  What are the ingredients?
So I'm going to post this again - there's also a link at the bottom that shows a few different ways to make it.  (One adds Oxyclean to the list)

FHE TOPIC FOR Feb 24th - How-to make your own Laundry Detergent!!

How to make home-made laundry detergent for Family Home Evening (FHE) Feb 24th.
Save (AND BRING!) your one gallon jugs!  Also/And acquire and bring 5 gallon containers if wanted.
We'll have one box of washing soda and one box of borax that we can all share.
PLEASE BRING your own bar of laundry soap - Fels Naptha is the one I've had the most experience with, but others are listed below.


Making your own  laundry soap is one of the easiest parts of a transition to natural living. It is also a great way to save money on laundry detergent and is incredibly easy to make.
Why switch to natural laundry soap, you ask? Conventional laundry detergent is loaded with chemicals like sulfates, fragrances, phenols and more. Many brands contain things like petroleum distillates, which are linked to cancer and lung disease. Fragrances in these detergents are made of a mix of harmful chemicals.
Luckily, making your own laundry soap is an easy and fast process! You only need three basic ingredients to make either a powdered or liquid laundry soap:

• Washing Soda (Arm and Hammer Brand available at most stores)
• Borax (20 Mule Team Borax available at most grocery stores)
• Bar Soap (Dr. Bronner’s,  Ivory, or other natural, unscented bar soap - Fels Naptha)

Washing Soda and Borax should be available at your local grocery store on the laundry aisle.(Fels Naptha is usually located right beside the borax and washing soda) Natural bar soaps are in the health, beauty, or organic sections of the store, or online. You can also add a couple tablespoons of baking soda to help freshen clothes.
Wonder what’s in these ingredients? Borax is a naturally occurring mineral made up of sodium, boron, oxygen, and water. It is an ingredient in most of the natural soaps available now (Seventh Generation, etc.) but it is much more inexpensive to make yourself.
 Washing Soda, sometimes called sodium carbonate or soda ash, is made from common salt and limestone or found as natural deposits.
Dr. Bronner’s soaps are fair trade and made with vegetable castille soap and pure organic oils.

To Make powdered laundry soap:

1. Grate the bar soap or mix in food processor until finely ground. Use the soap of your choice. I personally use Dr. Bronner’s Pure Castille Bar Soap because of its exceptional quality, and because it is available in several different natural scents like lavender, tea tree, peppermint, almond and others.
2. In a large bowl, mix 2 parts washing soda, 2 parts Borax and 1 part grated soap. (Add a few teaspoons of baking soda if desired).
3. Store in closed container. I keep mine in quart or half gallon mason jars. If you are using a big enough container, you can skip step 2 and just put all ingredients in storage container or jar and shake.
4. Use 1/8 to 1/4 cup per load of laundry.

To make liquid Laundry Soap:

1. Grate one bar of soap with cheese grater or food processor.
2. Put grated soap in pan with 2 quarts water and gradually heat, stirring constantly until soap is completely dissolved.
3. Put 4.5 gallons of really hot tap water in a 5-gallon bucket (available for free in bakeries at grocery stores, just ask them) and stir in 1 cup of borax and 1 cup of Washing Soda until completely dissolved.
4. Pour soap mixture from pan into 5-gallon bucket. Stir well.
5. Cover and leave overnight.
6. Shake or stir until smooth and pour into gallon jugs or other containers.
7. Use 1/2 to 1 cup per load.

These recipes are also a great way to save money on laundry. By my calculations, I am saving over half on my laundry bill by switching:
On the powdered recipe, I spent (at the time of writing the post):

• One 55 ounce box Washing Soda- $3.49 (Note: all of these are much more expensive on Amazon!)
• One 76 ounce box of Borax – $4.99  ($3.79 at Winco)
• One Bar Dr. Bronner’s Pure Castille Bar Soap- $2.99  (Fels Naptha $1.22 @ Winco)

With the amount this mixture I use (1/4 cup) per load of laundry, this recipe works out to $0.09 cents per load of laundry. This saves me almost $0.15 per load over using Arm and Hammer or Tide. With the liquid recipe, the saving are even more. A Five-Gallon batch costs $4.30 and washes at least 80 loads, costing about $0.05 per load!

http://wellnessmama.com/462/how-to-make-nautral-homemade-laundry-detergent/

100 Years of Family Home evening

http://www.mormonnewsroom.org/article/mormons-practice-100-years-of-family-home-evening

Just curious - I wonder how long there has been a SA Home evening program?  Anybody know?

http://www.mormonnewsroom.org/article/mormons-practice-100-years-of-family-home-evening

Save the Date!

Ensign Ranch Single Adult Campout!   September 4-7.  More Info to come!
http://ensignranch.wewasa.org/

Seder Meal and Bunco Night activity photo's

Bunco and Seder Meal

All setup

Ready and waiting

Anytime now

Maggie, Tom, Barb, Nina at the Head Table!

Bunco Group

Teri, Debbie and Chris "Strategizing"

Preparing to officiate

Pre Preparing

Helen has a question

Helen putting the "Mojo" on the roll

"Listen Mike"

Me and Elder Speer

Sandy, Myrna, Helen and Von

Mingling with the missionaries

Bunco

Seder Head Table

Pre- Seder

Seder Group

Again

Where's my seat?

Ready and waiting....

Anytime now

Amen

Seder Meal Flyer (Wrong address)

Informative except for the address.  Address is the Hazel Dell Bldg - 2223 NW 99th Street, Hazel Dell, WA

Grist Mill Schedule (And Directions!)

We've had a great time attending two events at the Grist Mill as a group.  Below is the 2015 schedule.  Maybe we can think about doing another trip?

ICYMI

Schedule

Month/Day	Host	Activity/Lesson	Spiritual Thought	Snacks
2-Feb	ALL	Planning	Nina	All
9-Feb	Bev	Activity	Nina	Bev/
16-Feb	All/Combined	Service Project		All
23-Feb	Angella	Meet the Apostles		Angella/
2-Mar	Erik/Janet	Home Teaching	Nina	Erik/Janet/
9-Mar	Tom	P.O.G.P		Tom/
16-Mar	Bro Baldwin	Meet the Apostles
23-Mar	All/Combined	MWTM		ALL
30-Mar	Dayna	Movie		Dayna/
6-Apr	Nina	Crafts		Nina/
13-Apr	Helen/Bev			Helen/Bev
20-Apr	Byron Christensen	Meet the Apostles		All
27-Apr	Planning Meeting
4-May
11-May
18-May	Bro Brown	Meet the Apostles
25-May
1-Jun
8-Jun
15-Jun		Meet the Apostles
22-Jun
29-Jun
6-Jul
13-Jul
20-Jul		Meet the Apostles
27-Jul