How to Wash Strained Carrotts

So, I've been out of commission for a couple of days - hence the delayed blog posting. Thursday started out normally enough. I did my morning babysitting, checked the internet a few times, ate a little lunch, and figured I'd get to the blog later that day or perhaps Friday so as to give you all plenty of time to admire the recent pictures of Christa (because you're obviously not getting anymore with this post:) But somewhere around 3:00, things fell apart and I found myself in the ER by 6 getting IV fluids and sweet, sweet drugs. Pherergan is good stuff when you feel like you are going to die. I'll spare you the gory details, but whatever illness I had went away as suddenly as it came on, and I'm back (sound applause).
So today I thought I'd try a little something different for this post and offer a helpful tip that I have learned the hard way. (Notice new "Tip of the Week" section to the right and take a moment to bask in my brilliance). Since many of you who read this have young children, I will dedicate this post to educating you on how to get set-in pureed carrot stains out of baby clothes so as to make your life easier.

1. Remove clothes, rinse, and Shout immediately after contact.
2. If you can not complete step number 1 because you are, say, in the hospital, wait 24 hours to tackle stain.
3. Spray liberal amount of Oxy Clean on stain, scrub vigorously with toothbrush, and let sit for 10 minutes.
4. Wash with huge pile of other dirty baby clothes with equally unappealing stains.
5. Pull outfit out of laundry and realize the stain did not come out. Blast your stupid virus for ruining your child's outfit.
6. Repeat steps 3 and 4.
7. Pull outfit out and feel blood pressure rise when you realize stubborn stain is still on cute outfit.
8. Call mother-in-law who is stain remover expert.
9. Blast - her phone is turned off.
10. Hurriedly call grandmother-in-law who is sure to come to the rescue.
11. Immediately leave husband and child to run to grocery store to pick up Ivory soap, per grandmother-in-law's instructions.
12. Mentally fuss at husband for picking cute outfit for child to wear in the first place. Why couldn't he have taken her to the doctor in ratty pajamas?
13. Have husband vigorously scrub Ivory soap into outfit. Let sit for 30 minutes.
14. Wash for 3rd time tonight and try not to think about electric bill for this month.
15. Realize if you add gas, cost of Ivory soap, electricity, and laundry detergent expenses, you could have just bought your child new outfit.
16. Hope this works because you're out of ideas.
17. Realize all your daughter's other clothes have set-in stains that were not removed with Oxy-Clean on the first wash.
18. Frantically scrub Ivory soap into remaining stains and re-wash.
19. Vow to never, ever get sick again.
20. Stop feeding your baby strained carrots.