  like it or not, this post goes on this blog since parenting draws a domestic crowd. If there was a Nobel Prize for cleaning, this week it would be mine. I've discovered the secret to cleaning porcelain bath tups: liquid dishwasher soap! My mom taught me long ago that this was the trick for cleaning stains out of white kitchen sinks, and since we bought this old house nearly four years ago I haven't quite known how to clean up the claw-foot tup.
Finally, I put the two together. It's so pretty and white! And, by utter fluke, I actually had the honor of being the first bather in the tub after I cleaned it! That's a real rarity when a family of four shares one bathroom. 
