Q: Hi,
I am just wondering how do I get rid of spiders and spiderwebs from inside the house?
Thank you,
Amanda
A:Keep your house as dry as possible (spidies love moisture) but also make sure it is crumb-free. They also go looking for food so if you have left something out on the counter overnight, or you forgot to sweep the floor after dinner, your kitchen will look pretty appetizing to spiders and ants. However, not even the cleaning lady can keep spiders away in the warm weather.
To get ride of their webs, just take a broom and sweep them away.
April 14th, 2008 at 6:10 pm
I live in the Palm Springs, CA area and it gets pretty hot here. Leaving your left over bars of soap from the shower. (You know, when it gets small)…. throw them in all your dresser drawers & around the closet area. This keeps the no seeums away… Best of luck.
April 23rd, 2008 at 8:25 am
Hi Rachael! I love your show & watch it every day as well as the cooking show on the food network. I have cooked many of your great recipes and my family loves it! Thanks so much! I want to ask you one question. Where do you purchase your beautiful scarfs that you are wearing lately? I love scarfs and wear them all the time so I love to find unique scarfs. I especially love the black and white one you wore on Tuesday, 4/22/08. Please share with me where I can purchase these beautiful scarfs. Thanks so much!
Sheila
April 23rd, 2008 at 9:29 am
if you need to get rid of the spiders then you should buy the stuff thats called “bug spray” then get a duster and dust all of the webs away!!!
Rachael Price
April 24th, 2008 at 10:03 am
This blog is to address Leah concerns with her daughter and bottle. My name is Carinna Begley I am also the mother or 2 children 12 and 14. My 3 advices are simple. One give the baby her bottle, however place something unpleasant tasting on nipple everynite each week increase undesirable taste(I am sure a pediatrician or pharmasist can recommend something). Remember when moms tried to get us to stop biting our nails? My other suggestion is a sippy cups there are so many to select from. Bring her shopping mom a me day to Target or Disney store by her sippy cups to match diapers or outfit and reward her every time she refuses the bottle praise her. Third you can talk to her and tell her every nite she goes with less and less bottles she will be positivly rewarded with doing something she likes to do or have something she has wanted. Eventually you will be able to withdraw the reinforcements and she will be bottle free. These worked great for potty training also. My number is 1845634-4592 if interest in any more help. Good Luck Carinna
April 24th, 2008 at 12:02 pm
Just saw today’s show with Leah and Angelo and I think I can help them solve their problem. (24 April 2008)
1. Take Sophia to the store to purchase some big girl cups. Some will have to have sippy lids so she doesn’t spill the contents on the floor. Sophia can select some.
2. Box and store her baby bottles or throw them away. Sophia could see you discarding one to know it’s over.
3. Serve her beverages in her new cups. Reinforce the bahavior with a treat. Put a sippy cup in the bathroom so she can get her own nighttime drink. You may have to get her a stool so she can reach the faucet.
4. Take a polaroid photo of her using the cups and place on the refrigerator or other places where she can see it.
5. Praise her accomplishments! Jump up and down and sing a little ditty on her becoming a big girl. (Everyone around could also sing her praies).
I wasn’t sure if Sophia was potty-trained.
Letting her drink all night means she will be
soiling her diaper as well.
Finally, be consistent! Letting her have a daytime bottle only sabotages the bottle breaking behavior. Sophia may cry at first.
The new behavior must be reinforced firmly but with love. Ler her know that she’s a big girl now!
I have raised three children alone and I know it can be tough to hear them cry. You may have to let Sophia cry and work it out on her own.
Remain consistent and firm to achieve the result. Good luck!
–Sheila Fukawa
viewer/friend
April 24th, 2008 at 12:26 pm
Please tell Leah and her husband we know exactly how they feel. We also had a very strong willed daughter. She was attached to her bottle and me holding and rocking her all night. I finally got her off the bottle by cutting the nipple on her bottles a little everynight. When she asked what was wrong with them, I would say they must be broken.She stated we could buy new ones and I said they didn’t make them anymore or we would. Everynight I made the cuts a liitle bigger until there was nothing left of the nipples and she said let’s just throw them away. Good luck from the house that used to dread sundown.
April 24th, 2008 at 2:52 pm
The little girl is beautiful but they need to get a clue and realize they are raising a little monster in the making. This world needs more children in it that can work well with others, carry themselves with humility, have respect for others and be able to handle authority. These things are all taught at home. This kid will be a nightmare and it will be no fault but the parents. Can you say co-dependent? Character defect projection? I’m stuck on the fact that Leah and her husband are still sleeping with their daughter- sorry!
April 24th, 2008 at 3:51 pm
This is for Leah, hi my name is Jamie Clowers and I am a stay at home mom of 3 girls ages 6,4, and 2. All of my girls were broke from the bottle by 1yr. and 5 days. I simply washed all the bottles packed them in a bag and put them in the closet (out of sight out of mind). Then I told them that they were a big girl now and we went shopping and I let them pick out a tippy cup, ( by the way I never gave the bottle a name or asked if they wanted it. At first they threw it down and the tantrum started, I ignored them because the fit made them thirsty so they had no choice but to accept the tippy cup. With your daughters age she is almost out of the tippy cup stage, so I would recommend alternating a tippy cup and regular cup to stop the whole sucking action. Believe it or not my niece was late coming off of the bottle (6 now) and sucks in her sleep and she has worn her teeth down almost flat she gets cavities very easy now. Gotta have patience and CONSISTENCY. Good Luck,
Jamie
April 24th, 2008 at 4:27 pm
Hey Racheal!
i love your show! your really funny!
BUT! my friends and would LOVE if you would get the Jonas Brothers on your show PLEASE
we are HUGE fans of them they are amazing guys and very talented boys we love them to death! PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
we would love if you would get them on your amazing show!!!!!!!!
it would be awsome!!!!
please please!!!!!!!!!
We love you,
Stephanie and friends!
Please!
April 24th, 2008 at 7:14 pm
Hi Rachel,
With all the wonderful signature dishes you prepare on you’re show, the food you prepare looks very professionally prepared.
Have you ever thought about having Chef Gordan Ramsey from Hell’s Kitchen on you’re show. He would make an interesting guest on you’re show, since he is a professional Chef & you create beautiful signature crusine.
Thanks,
Irene C, Scottsdale AZ
April 24th, 2008 at 9:20 pm
Hi Rachael,
Just wanted to say, after watching your show today about Leah, I have a great way for 1 year old moms. I have four children, Jonathan-4, Tara-3, Nathanial-3, and Frankie- 1. All of my children are off the bottle and drinking from cups or sippy cups. This is what I did:
1. I am the parent and I am here for a reason. Who makes the decisions?
2. Introduce the sippy cup a month before first birthday.
3. Throw the bottles in the trash. Dont think about it and make sure the trash goes out that night!!!! Bottles are only as important as you think they are.
4. Never!!!!! Never put your kids to bed with a drink!!! Thats very confusing dont you think? What about potty training? That is kind of redundant.
5. Think the trash works for bottles? Try pacifiers!! Thats the best way to get rid of them.
6. If your child cries about the pacifier or bottle. Give them what you think is appropriate for their age. A sippy cup is the second step from a bottle.
Oh and a suggestion for Leah
April 25th, 2008 at 2:37 pm
Hi Rachael! I am a mother of 2, Kaytlinn 4 and Trenton 3 months. I had a terrable time breaking my daughter of the passy. She was 3 and still sucking on the passy. I would just think I had them all out of sight and here she would walk into the living room with one in her mouth. She had them hidden all over the place. I started noticing her teeth in front (bottom) turning in and I said, “THAT IS IT.” But I had help from our dog. Yep I said dog. We had been trying to give our Golden Retreiver away for months because he kept knocking Kaytlinn down. Finally we found a good home and when the dog left he took all her passies with him. She was upset and wanted me to go and buy her new ones. But I got passed that by telling her the store was closed for the night. The next day when we did go to the store and she wanted new passies I said OK but you can’t get your new doll you will have to put it back. She chose her doll and that night slept with her dolly instead of the passy. She did wake up a couple of times but at night that week but she soon forgot all about it. I wish I would have done it sooner. Keep trying Leah it will happen when she is ready.
May 8th, 2008 at 2:14 pm
Bottles after 1 year old are only a crutch for the parent not the child. My son was off the bottle at 11 months. He did have a binky for bedtime, but no bottle. Yes, they cry and hate you, but ya gotta do it. I also took him to the store to pick out his cups, he loved it. Then when it came to potty training, he couldn’t wait to go to the store and pick out big boy underwear.
May 14th, 2008 at 9:45 am
Rachael Ray I LOVE your show. You inspired me to cook. I own almost all of your cookbooks and watch your 30-minute meals everyday. Your show is inspiring to me. I was given your “everyday” magazine as a birthday gift and wow I loved it-#1 magazine to Paula Deen. I read your webpage daily. I love the interesting tips given for every imaginable thing.
Keep up the FANTASTIC work. Would love to see your show in person but with Katrina hitting my area the way she did, my means are just not possible. But I can watch you on TV.
Thanks again for inspiring me to learn the basics of cooking.
30-minute meals are the best.
One more thing though, my fiance loves Chili, I know you have a great recipe for Chili.
Monique Granier
Slidell, La.
May 14th, 2008 at 9:46 am
I forgot to add to my comment that I am loving the 2 opposite side potholder dish cloth you invented. Awesome creation. I am also working on buying every piece of cookware with your name on it.
Thanks again,
Monique Granier
Slidell, La.