There is a reason why toddlers shouldn't wear white

Darling daughter was wearing this exact outfit when it happened: the soft cotton halter top lovingly hand knitted by me and white tights. It took two weeks for me to finish that halter top. After I was done I wanted to complete my vision of what the outfit must look like with white tights. After searching one day and coming up with nothing, I went back to searching the following day. That search party took me across the city and into an east end mall where I luckily spotted the last pair of white tights at a Children's Place store. And the clothing gods had blessed me as they were a size 24 months. Sweet!

Yesterday, we visited my grandmother. My grandmother taught me how to knit when I was nine. As my grandmother and a fellow knitter, I knew she'd appreciate my work. Darling daughter looked so cute in it. But a couple of hours later, I saw a dark spot on the bottom of her tights. I had my fingers crossed that it was black piece of fluff, but I knew my luck had likely come to the end of the road in the toddlers-wearing-white department.

I won't get into the gross details, but lets just say I had to deal with a blueberry poop explosion. I wasn't impressed that day of all days when she is wearing white tights that she'd just let it go. I swear that my kid and stains attract each other. Doesn't matter what she is wearing, what she is doing or where she is, in all likelihood she'll stain her clothes. I should start buying shares in OxyClean.

Determined to keep the tights white and stain-free, I quickly went to work with the materials on hand. Soap did nothing, so I was forced to get out a bit of bleach. Once we got home, I sprayed them (well, more like doused them) with OxyClean. Right now, I'm hoping for the best.

The moral of the story is that no matter how hard you try or hope, white tights will likely not stay white for long.

Puke doesn't come out of a white blouse

One of the cutest blouses that darling daughter sits on top of my dryer, stained. No amount of Nature's Miracle or Shout can get that stain out. If there is any hope in getting that eliminating that stain completely, then bleach is likely answer. But quite frankly I have been too lazy in the last week to get the bleach out and see if it will work its magic.

I don't know what I was thinking when I dressed darling daughter in her cute little white blouse for our road trip last week. It never occured to me that she would throw up her dinner at a fast food restaurant (we ate Burger King while she ate some wholesome bananas and pears out of a jar). Twenty minutes after getting back onto the road (obviously she was wearing fresh, clean clothing) she threw up again. I won't get into the gruesome details, but lets say what was coming out of her mouth was basically a river of puke that I caught with a blanket.

I have had some experience in stain removal and as soon as we arrived at my friend's house, I quickly sprung into action and squirted the shirt with Nature's Miracle, a product that my friend swears by. However, it was no match for the pears and bananas. I tried Shout when I got home. The stain was still there. I learned a lesson when it comes to road trips: don't put your children in clothes that are white in colour or that you love.