Smell

So, the skunk smell is still strong in the house even after all the work we put into de-stinkifying everything. Yesterday pretty much sucked. I washed Loki 4 times and Piper 10 times. Piper still stinks. My house: we deoderized all of the carpets, baked spices, boiled Wassail all day, make cookies, put out baking soda, coffee grounds and Renuzits, and washed all the couch cushion covers and sprayed down the couches with Febreeze and hubby got the expensive air filters for the house that are supposed to keep odor out...and it STILL stinks! I was reintroduced to the odor when I returned from the library this morning. I didn't think it was bad until I walked into it again. My nephew is spending the day with us and when Becky dropped him off I asked them if it smelled. They both looked at me like they were sorry that it smelled so bad! ugh.

Loki and Piper were washed in a bath of baking soda, vinegar, peroxide, soap and I added NoMos (no more odor, no more stains - can't find a website to link to) to the mix. Left it on for 10 minutes, rinsed and then washed with a deoderant dog soap. Poor Piper was washed with a ton of vinegar and is probably not feeling so well today. Vinegar is supposed to really help pull out the stink.

From what I have been told over and over again is the skunk smell stays in the house for a few weeks...some say even a month. I guess skunk oils are pretty potent and need to be neutralized (?). The smelly enzymes or whatever the heck they are don't just dissolve and go away. WTF?! This is such crap, but what am I supposed to do? Have a smelly house, I guess. It is so awful, and I hope P, E and I don't smell when we go out. :)

Cloth diapering update:

I bought a bumGenius 3.0 diaper from Wildflower Diapers. They offer a money back guarantee within 14 days. I figure by then I will know if I like it, have washed it and hopefully experience pees and poos in it to see how it performs. It will be a good indication, as well, as to my dedication to doing laundry every day/every 2 days. I should be doing laundry that frequently anyhow...and maybe this will help me get used to doing laundry more often...or at least not loathing it. I think once we have the basement done I will actually like doing laundry and ironing because I'll have a nice new laundry room to do it in. Right now I think it is drudgery because it is just exposed drywall and cement floors.

I am super syked to start CDing and am probably driving my friends who do it nuts with questions. But, from what I read, people who CD love to talk about it. Hopefully that is true!