An Award, A Nice Surprise and a "Backwards" WFMW

First off, I want to say THANK YOU girl to Shannon for the award she gave me. I've only been blogging since June and it was my first one. Yea!! And to get it for scrapbook pages. How flattering. I know there are many more elaborate ones out there, and I often am my own worst critic. Nice to know there are people that think they are good. That really boosted my confidence.

I would like to pass this award on to Nicole at Our Cozy Nest. She is such a friendly gal, comments on my blog often with sweet sentiments and is also very creative. I get neat and creative ideas from her blog. So, Nicole...here ya go!!

Secondly, believe it or not, we are out of school today. I couldn't believe it. It's the first time I can remember them letting school out for rain, but I guess with Gustav wreaking havoc on the gulf and Arkansas getting some of it as well, the roads are flooded and they can't get busses routed. I also heard there were several in the area that had lost power. Not us yet, thank goodness, but I don't know about the school. The call came early this morning and was a nice surprise for the kids and me since I was scheduled to substitute at the High School today!! I just crawled right back into bed. ahhhh.

Being lazy today has constituted lots of time on the net. I just finished up with Rocks in my Dryer's backwards edition of Works for me Wednesday. She suggested we use this backwards day opportunity to seek advice from the blog world in hopes to help find a remedy for whatever our issue may be. I found it a great time to ask this question.

For years, I have used a product called De-Solv-It. Worked wonders getting cooking grease and other things out of laundry. Then, for some strange reason, I can not find it on shelves anywhere. I look every single time I go to Wal-Mart or anywhere I think might have it. I've even looked online, but can't find the same thing. With Big Dan coming home from Popeyes wearing lots of chicken grease, and Pete getting lots of Railroad ick on his clothes, I really need a remedy to this problem. Someone suggested Dawn dishwashing detergent, since it "really takes grease out", but I wondered if anyone else had any suggestions.