A month before Clarah was born I must have been focused on cloth diapers. (See last blog post...) Then the doctor assured us she would be arriving early so we spent weeks in nervous anticipation (must have been too busy resting/packing/nesting to blog). Then our beautiful girl came and I became enamored with our fresh, precious, and sweet little girl. (I was also surprised she was a girl!!) And now it is almost 8 months later!! Holy cow, where does the time go? In any case, I think it's time I resume blogging because it's fun!
Here we are now! It's from our Christmas card 2012 photo shoot, but this shot could not be used on the card because....(take a guess).....Rex! His ears! Ugh! Why did he put his ears straight back and look like an ear-less, confused dog when everyone else is looking and smiling? In any case it's a cute picture of our family now. I have thoroughly enjoyed catching up on a few blogs and appreciate the writing talent, honesty, and pure entertainment that AL, LS, SG, GG, JN and others provide.
An update on cloth diapers...now that Clarah eats solid food you could not pay me to use cloth diapers. (Awesome for breast milk fed newborns, disgusting for babies over 6 months).
Now don't let me get so boring that I write about cloth diapers again!!!!!
If you are wondering why I haven't posted in months it is because of diapers.
Okay, not really...but these have taken up about one full day of my life!! Once Jamie casually, but seriously, asked me if we were going to use cloth diapers and I said, "No! No one does that..." Then I read an article on it and listened to a podcast (for anyone interested in pregnancy the Pregtastic podcast available online or iTunes is phenomenal!!) and researched on my own and realized cloth diapers might not be so bad.
After at least 24 hours of research I came to these conclusions:
1. Cloth diapering has come a LONG way in the last 20 years...if you type cloth diapers into amazon.com it come up with 8,104 results (which leads to confusion).
2. Cloth diapering can save you a lot of money.
3. Cloth diapering is GREAT for the environment.
4. My sister Christine is extremely opposed to cloth diapering.
Final evaluation of cloth diapers:
1. We may not save any money.
2. We might help the environment.
3. But by George, if I have invested that much time into figuring these things out we are doing it! (or at least trying...)
