Who knew…

We are a Cloth Diapering family. We have exclusively cloth diapered since Téadora was about 2 months old. When Dillon was born I had three in diapers. Whew! That makes for a lot of diapers to wash every other day. Now I am down to two in diapers full-time and Aidan and Coda just wear diapers at night. Poor boys, they inherited their mothers inability to wake up to pee.

I am always asked questions about cloth diapering. I am assuming this is because it is out of the ordinary. Disposable diapers are so easy to come by these days and honestly they aren’t THAT expensive. So why do we use cloth diapers?

My short answer is this: for health, economical and environmental reasons. My detailed answer starts here and will be continued later…

Cloth saves us money, cloth makes for almost ZERO diaper rash, cloth allows me to not use diapers with chemical and fragrances in them, cloth helps decrease the amount of garbage my family produces, cloth is cute on my babies booties

Here are some pictures and links of cloth diapers we use.

Fuzzi Bunz

bumGenius One-Size 2.0

gDiaper Cover w/ a Infant Prefold inside

I really think cloth diapering is making a come back, atleast I hope so. It is an awesome way to protect our children, to be good stewards of our finances and contribute to making our world a better (or not worse) place to live. That being said cloth diapering is not for everyone. This is a decision we have made for our family and I do not think any less of you if you don’t cloth diaper, I promise.

Have any questions about your choices when it comes to diapering your child, lets chat! I don’t claim to be an expert, but I love to talk about the different options that we as mothers have. I like to call them our mOPTIONS

Promised

ERGO pictures!

Nick was my trusty model last night.  Actually he loves the ERGO, he packs Téa around in it all the time.

    

       

Disclaimer: Dillon doesn’t ride around on the back yet, he fits, but we just like to have him in front until he gets a little bigger.

Loving it.

My ERGO that is. I love it, Téa loves it, Nick loves it! Téa weighs in at about 23 pounds and 17 months and honestly she is almost weightless in the ERGO. The story of me and the ERGO is not a short one. I put up a fight. I mean, honestly, how much better could it be? Could a baby carrier really be worth a hundred bucks. I am hear to say, YES IT IS! I broke down and bought an ERGO almost a month ago and seriously everyday I have kicked myself for not buying one sooner. And one of the coolest things is the ERGO is totally Daddy friendly. Pictures of Téa in her ERGO are soon to come.

More Tie Dye!

Yipee!

I went out on a limb today. And surprisingly enough the limb didn’t break.

I am a regular at DiaperSwappers. More often than not I have been frequenting the forums to add to my stash of cloth diapers and various accessories A few times I have sold some diapers that we no longer used or didn’t work for us. But today I tried something new. I decided to put some of my Tie Dye up for sale in the WAHM (Work at Home Mom) Wares forum. Holy Moly! I have gotten such an awesome response. So far I have sold NINE shirts! I am so excited. I am selling the shirts for not a large profit, because more than anything I just want to make enough money to buy the shirts and supplies and then I get to Tie Dye at someone else’s expense. As I continue to perfect my designs, I hope to be able to charge a little more…a girl can always use some extra money!

So thank you to the mama’s who liked my Tie Dye enough to buy it. I can’t wait to see those shirts on all your little ones!

Possibly addicted…

to tie-dyeing. It is therapeutic. It allows me to complete something other than dishes and laundry. And tie-dyeing is awesome because there is a something to show for what I have done…a finished product.

When Kristy first taught me how to tie dye it was hard.  Not the actual tying or dyeing, but the fact that no matter how hard you tried, you really didn’t *know* exactly how the shirt was going to turn out.  If you know me and my ways, that was hard for me!

 I get all my tie dye supplies from Dharma Trading.  They have everything you could possibly need.  Plain white clothes, dyes, squirt bottles, syringes and on and on.