Fluff

Ahhhh, nothing like a stack of fresh, clean, fluffy diapers.  I really love them, and if you know me at all--you had to know that this post was coming! 

I think this time around with Laurel, I was confident enough in the basic mothering skills that I wanted to take on a new challenge- cloth diapering.  A lot of my students inquire about it, and I thought that I should have some first hand experience.  I researched and researched until finally when she was 8 weeks old- I bought my first set.

Doesn't she look cute at 2.5 months in her first wool soaker?

It is really not that hard.  I bet it only adds 2 extra loads of laundry per week.  Even my older girls (who did not get cloth) call disposable dipes "scratchy diapers". They have turned into diaper snobs. You wouldn't believe how far cloth diapers have come.  No more folded diapers with plastic pants...times have changed mamas!

They are really quite cute and trim. It is just a simple little thing that I can do to reduce my family's impact on our environment. (Pretty sure that my dad is rolling his eyes right about now.)  I haven't ventured into the land of sewing my own...not sure that I will get their either.  I would imagine that Laurel will begin toilet training next summer. 

Until then, I think hemp, fleece, cotton and wool wrapped buns are pretty cute!

No more holes!

When it comes to decorating, I am the idea girl- not the execute it girl.  I hate measuring. I dislike very much being exact.  I tend to jerry-rig to save time.  I am a "hurry-up-and-get-it-done" kind of person.  I come from a breed of (on my mother's side) of slap-it-together impatient Irish folk.  Thankfully, my brother- the finish carpenter- got the picky German genes.

So, when it comes hanging pictures I procrastinate.  We have lived in our house for 1.5 years now, and I haven't been able to bring myself to poke holes in many of our walls.  Mostly, they have remained bare.  Well, not anymore my friends.

TA-DA...

My newest friend!  Have you seen these?  It's like plastic Velcro for your pictures and wall.  No nailing, no leveling (you can easily adjust), no holes in the wall, no more getting yelled at for not returning your husbands drill/screwdriver/hammer to the tool bench!

Just slap the little tabs on the picture, peel off the adhesive and stick it to your wall.  I have used these on some pretty good sized frames.  They hold up marvelously! If you don't have it straight, just pull the picture off adjust and stick it back on!

The result:

Framed fabric in 5 minutes! (black pillowcases are a bad deal if you drool!!)

Now, I am off to enjoy some wool chocolate with a little one.

 

Keeping track

Not much crafting going on here the last few days so I have at the ready some very non-useful information for you. I really did keep track of these things for one day.  I know, totally lame.  In any event-  May I present "The Numbers of Me"

36:: number of pictures taken to try and get a good one for this post- just so that you aren't totally bored.

29.25:: the number of years that I have lived

830:: number of days that I have spent pregnant

930:: number of days that I have spent breastfeeding

3323:: number of days that I have been married

66.75:: the number of inches that I am tall

2:: number of pillows I sleep with

0:: number of broken bones I have suffered

2:: number of cavities that I have had

1422:: the number of feet above sea level where my house sits

200:  number of sunny days per year in my town

9:: number of inches of annual rainfall here

27:: number of inches of annual snowfall here

.25:: the number of hours spent watching TV in the last 24 hours

7:: the number of times that I said "wash your hands"

8:: the number of phone numbers that I have had in my life (I can remember all of them except 1- during college, which explains a lot)

7:: the number of times that I wiped someone's face

7:: the number of times that I ate something

5:39:: the numbers on the clock when I woke up.  (my snooze button gives me an extra 9 minutes- I have it down to a science)

2.5:: number of cups of coffee I drank- decaf

33:: number of miles driven in one day

3:: number of months that I have procrastinated getting my license renewed after it expired this summer.

2:: number of times that I changed my clothes before deciding on what to wear (really good- usually more)

1858:: number of calories eaten...but really who's counting?

4:: number of years that I wore braces as a youngster

0:: number of times that I have been to a concert- weird huh?

228:: number of steps to my mailbox- one way, not sure how accurate this number is.  I assigned Emma the job of fetching the mail.  She came back empty handed and frustrated because there was no mail today!!! Columbus Day. 

4:: number of phone calls made-not counting the calls to my husband :)

12:: number of diapers changed

17:: number of times I washed my hands- see above

6:: number of times I checked my email

9:: number of emails received

11:: number of hugs received

14:: number of kisses given- we are pretty smoochy around here

There you have it!!  Not too exciting, pretty straightforward.  Maybe you learned something. Moving onward.