This, after replacing a ton of pockets during Black Friday sales. I just can't right now. Regular clean laundry is hanging out in baskets far longer than I like so there's no way in hell I'll get to a point of having bins full of stuffed pockets anytime soon. I also haven't been super successful diagnosing some stink issues that I've dealt with since moving to our new home last April, beyond just using bleach, which eventually causes my PUL to delaminate so I have to buy more diapers, see above.
The stomach flu was the last straw. Damn disposables for making it so much easier.
Mine is work related. I have been seriously slacking lately on several cases because I hate the project, hate the people in charge of the project, and figure I'll be on leave long before they ever close so I really don't care what the project coordinators think of me.
I have more silly things to confess (is my Catholic showing?)
Yesterday I bought a new duvet insert for our bed so we can finally START using the pricey Hotel Collection duvet I had to have on our registry when we got married five years ago. I've been keeping it safe in the closet because it's so nice (and dry clean only, WTF was I thinking) and we have grubby little kids, but f-it. What's the point if we never use it, right?
I'm sure we'll have a disposable diaper blow out on it soon.
Post by gogadgetgo on Jan 15, 2014 10:05:23 GMT -5
I fell off the cd train too. I had every intention of having ds2 in CDs from the start but he get super fussy in even the dampest prefold and the pockets I have leak, even with bamboo and hemp inserts. Disposables are so much easier for us. Sorry earth.
DH asked this weekend if it's time to wean N. In H's defense, N was going through a streak where he wanted to be doing 573209 other things besides nurse, like climb off the bed, play with the blinds, grab at stuff on the bed table.
I've been gone for the last 3 mornings before he's been up for the day, and even though I nursed him before I left (2x around 5am bc he was up due to teething & this morning a dream feed at 6:30), he has been throwing epic tantrums when he wakes up and I'm not there. He demanded that DH open every door and take him into the kitchen/bathroom to make sure I wasn't there. When he handed him a sippy of milk, he threw it across the floor. I feel bad that he's upset I'm not there, but it feels good to be needed
Also, it's so nice to just get up and get myself ready and go to work. Getting N ready, nursing on *his* schedule, doing daycare drop off is so.much.work by myself that by the time I get to work (usually LATE), I am ready for a nap. I don't feel bad at all that DH is stuck doing it by himself!
Post by MadamePresident on Jan 15, 2014 10:08:50 GMT -5
I bought a couple cloth diapers from a lady on craigslist. It was $8 for a BG 4.0 in good condition. I kind of want to get a few more from her, but kind of feel embarrassed about going back for more after she already met up with me. Also, she has a diaper pail and wetbags and is selling it all as a "kit", so I'd make her break up the kit more. Plus, I know Cotton Babies will have their used diaper sale in April, but I want more NOW.
Post by matildasun on Jan 15, 2014 10:14:53 GMT -5
We had a horrible night, and I am exhausted. M is wide awake in his crib with books and a few toys, and I am about to take a nap. He is singing "let it go" at the top of his lungs.
Post by water*drop on Jan 15, 2014 10:21:20 GMT -5
DD has been watching a LOT of Sesame Street before daycare the past two days. I've got a nasty cold, and I just don't have the energy to chase her for two hours in the morning. Cuddling on the couch is much easier to handle.
I bought a bunch of bliss lotions, intending to give them as gifts to no one specifically, keeping one for myself. I have a extra three pack I tried to take back to Sephora yesterday because seriously, I don't need THAT much lotion, but I didn't have the cc I used to buy it online with me so I couldn't return it. Now I'm seriously contemplating keeping it all. But do I need like $60 worth of lotion? No, that would be insane.
I'm Ferbering my 5 month old and it's maybe kind of working.
But she's still part time in the vibrating chair because CIO doesn't work after 5 am. Plus she's a bit stuffy and I think that might have been her problem.
I think I've lost at least five pounds in the ten days I was on antibiotics due to no drinking and crapping all the time. I look great! I'm still sick. :-(
Post by leonard131 on Jan 15, 2014 10:30:08 GMT -5
I never understood the love with cloth diapering. I do understand they are much more environmental but scrapping poop and the extra laundry just seems like you are purposely making life difficult for youself. Not worth it in my book.
I never understood the love with cloth diapering. I do understand they are much more environmental but scrapping poop and the extra laundry just seems like you are purposely making life difficult for youself. Not worth it in my book.
Cost. I want to crap myself every time we have to buy a pack of disposables for travel.
“Life is not orderly. No matter how we try to make it so, right in the middle of it lose a leg, fall in love, drop a jar of applesauce.” - Natalie Goldberg
on my days home I've been letting Squirms play in her crib for awhile with a sippy of milk and her favorite toys/books so I can go back to sleep for a bit. I justify it because she is still up once or twice a night.
I don't actually care what people do with diapers. But if I choose to make my life more difficult, and you benefit from that (be it cloth diapers, cycling rather than driving, putting things in the recycling rather than the trash, whatever), that's a good thing for you. Don't make me feel like a fool for trying.
Post by countthestars on Jan 15, 2014 10:51:39 GMT -5
While I feel somewhat guilty about the trash associated with cloth diapers, the cost of disposables doesn't bother me at all. $1500 over the course of a couple of years doesn't motivate me. :-#
on my days home I've been letting Squirms play in her crib for awhile with a sippy of milk and her favorite toys/books so I can go back to sleep for a bit. I justify it because she is still up once or twice a night.
I don't actually care what people do with diapers. But if I choose to make my life more difficult, and you benefit from that (be it cloth diapers, cycling rather than driving, putting things in the recycling rather than the trash, whatever), that's a good thing for you. Don't make me feel like a fool for trying.
Thank you for cloth diapering!! (not snarky at all)
on my days home I've been letting Squirms play in her crib for awhile with a sippy of milk and her favorite toys/books so I can go back to sleep for a bit. I justify it because she is still up once or twice a night.
How do you get your LO to play alone in her crib?
I don't know, lol. She has this little box of toys that lives in her room that she only gets to play with in her crib so they are "special". I use them when I need to shower usually but recently it has turned into "you play while mama and the pug go back to sleep..."
I also give her some of her favorite books and she can look at the pictures in them over and over.
I expect this phase will pass soon, especially if she learns to climb out of the crib, then I am screwed.
I feel like I might be screwing up my kid. She watches television, knows how to navigate the iPad and eats sugar. I feel like the only way to redirect her or get her to do stuff is bribe her. I hid candy (just one) in her coat pockets so she would wear her new one and not the purple one that I hid and said was in the wash. Should we just let her freak out while we hold her down and put her in the coat? We had to go out.
Also, she will not brush her teeth or let me do it. Today I punished her by putting her in the bed, she laughed and kept singing to herself. I would go back in every 5 minutes to see if she was ready to brush. Nope. I eventually held her down and forced the brush in. She cried. Then she feels bad so she wants hugs. Is it wrong to hold her and hug her after she cries because she got into trouble?
She is normally a good kid. But I worry about the screen time. She plays iPad or watches TV while we shower (30min By the time I am ready etc) and she watches while I make dinner (episode of Dora) I know she only watches Dora sometimes with the nanny so 44 hours a week she isn't watching TV.
DD2 sounds a lot like this and a few weeks ago I could have written this post. She had started doing whatever she wanted, even after we said no, and was following it with NAH NAH NAH NAH NAH...complete with a little dance and jazz hands. Over Xmas, DH and I decided to lay down some rules, and to be more firm with them. In the last few weeks, DD2 has become more pleasant, easier to deal with, is no longer pulling DD1's hair, goes to sleep mostly on her own, and has even spent a few entire nights in her own bed. I haven't had a single NAH NAH dance in over a week! The structure and rules and follow through have really been good for her. She's becoming much easier to handle (I think she's a bit older than your DD). There are still fights (teeth brushing is one of them) but giving her choices and consequences has worked wonders on a child who doesn't yet understand boundaries. We never had to deal with this with DD1. She has always been a rule follower. Parenting this way is harder in the short term, but it is looking like will give us a lot of positive change fairly quickly.
And I will add, too, that my BFF has a daughter who is now 5. She never laid down any boundaries (they are tough and take a lot of work as we're finding out) and the kid is a nightmare now.
Well, I don't know if you are screwing her up, but you certainly seem to not want to be firm with her so that you don't have to be "mean". Some stuff is non negotiable, like brushing your teeth. And I'm not doing it on a 2 yr olds time. And yes, let her freak out when you put on her coat. She will stop. My daughter did this for about 2 days, but she damn sure want getting candy for putting it on. I held her lil ass down and put it on. She got over it and doesn't give me any more problems.
The problem with the brushing today was that I was leaving for work in 5 minutes. (Should have done it earlier but at night she has become good about brushing) and I didn't want to have a war before I left. I am actually getting more firm but this is a good reminder. I wish I was doing it because I don't want to be mean to her but it's mostly because I am lazy. I am going to start another post later. Need more tough love.
Honestly, I sit on my kids (not totally, just to hold them in place) to hold their arms down and brush their teeth if I'm on my own and it has to get done. If they scream it actually helps my cause because their little mouths are then wide open for me to brush. Maybe I have no soul left.
My kids watch more TV than know many on this board would like. And not to start a war but I seriously question all these in-home providers saying the tv is barely on. I can't figure out a better way to contain my toddlers for a minute while I tend to the baby.