How to clean your oven grates

Don't you hate scrubbing the grates of your oven?  It never fails you have a self clean oven and you take the grates out to clean and it doesn't work.  So I took to the web to try and find an easy way to clean them.  I saw one that was simply putting putting dryer sheets in a bath tube and letting them soak overnight.  Then simply wiping them down.  Seemed easy enough for me; so I thought I would give it a go.

So here is what I did.

Place towels down in the tub.  This isn't a necessity, but I didn't want to accidentally scratch the tub.

Place a layer of dryer sheets over the towels.  I used 13.
 No special reason why.
I had a bunch from a couponing expedition a while back, so I went crazy;
plus I have a double oven so I had 6 grates to let soak.

Add the grates on top of the dryer sheets. 

Add water.  Make sure to put enough to completely cover the grates.

Let soak for 18-20 hours.

Try not to let your children see that you are using their tube.  My daughter freaked out a little when she saw her tub.  I promised to clean the tub when I was done (and take her for ice cream...that seemed to work better).

The next morning I simply wiped them down with the dryer sheets.  I spent maybe a minute on each of the grates.  It worked well.  I have no after photos, because as soon as they were clean; my husband had a pizza in the oven.  Well, they were clean for a couple of moments.  Back to reality.  Next time, I will only do a few at a time.  I think that will work better, but overall I am happy with the results.  Give it a try and let me know how it goes.

My Review of Lillian's

The postcard I got in my school mailbox!
I wanted it in mint, but got it in pink.

This past Saturday I finally went shopping at Lillians of Milton.  This little boutique has been in Milton for awhile now, but I never made it inside to take a look.  I got a postcard in my mailbox at school with a picture of a fabulous dress on it.  So I made the decision to go inside and check it out and try on the dress.  I am now in love with this shop.  They had so much cute merchandise in the store.  I was able to get a dress (the dress I went in for) and a scarf for Declan's baptism, a top for the summer, another scarf (yes I have a scarf fetish), and a pair of sunglasses!  Sorry, I didn't take any photos.  I am still new to this whole blogging/selfie taking.  But I just wanted to let everyone out there aware of this store.  If you have one near you, go visit.  You will not be disappointed.  Next time I will try and remember to take photos!

Celebrate

On Tuesdays and Saturdays I lead meetings for Weight Watchers. Today in the meeting we are celebrating the activity victories that we have had this month.  Both my meetings are working towards walking our way to Florida.  Every 15 minutes that they are active this month counts towards 1 mile towards Florida.  Both meetings have done great and should arrive in Florida this week or next week.  I wonder where they will pick to go next?


As for me personally, I will be celebrating being more active.  This is the first month since Declan has been born (one year ago) that I will achieve my activity goal.  I have an ActiveLink that Weight Watchers has provided me.  It challenges me to increase my activity goal and work towards becoming more active.  I know some of it just is because we have had nicer weather and I am out playing with the kids more, but this has been a struggle for me and I am slowly getting it back.  I also made it back to my goal weight (well, within the 2 pounds that they allow you).

My goal for this month is to track my food.  I usually do the Simply Filling technique, but this month I am going to switch to Tracking to get my mind back in the right place.  I am sure that I have been slacking lately.  I also want to start the couch to 5K program again.  I was the healthiest when I had completed this and was routinely running (very slowly).