Skype

You know Skype really is a wonderful thing.  My bestie that lives in Italy and I are able to keep in touch and actually see and hear each other.  This wasn't possible a few years ago.  I imagine I would have lost touch with her eventually like I did so many other people over the course of my 32 years.  (And yes, I have to do the math a lot of time to figure out how old I am.  Kids eat brains I tell ya.)

I also use Skype a lot to stay in touch with my family in Michigan.  We moved in 1993 ten hours away.  600 long miles.  When we moved we could send letters in the actual mail.  Oh how I looked forward to getting letters on fancy stationary with stickers decorating the envelope from my grammie.  (Heck I still look forward to getting the occasional letter from her.)  We also could call them occasionally.  But you know you could never talk too long because it was a long distance call.

My sons will never know what a long distance call is.  Heck for the record, there will never be a time when my boys aren't able to immediately receive a phone call no matter what they were thanks to cell phones.  I remember using pay phones.  I can't remember the last time I saw a pay phone to be honest.

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I think it is a great thing that modern technology has come so far.  I don't have a whole lot of super close bestie friends that live where I do.  But because of cell phones, skype, and Facebook I can stay just as close with them as if they were here.  Trust me my friend Trish sure knows I don't hesistate to call her.  Each and every evening when Mr. Destructo is at work and I am losing bits of my sanity by the minute.  Gah I love modern technology.

Rumps Around Thirsty Rumps Diaper Review (and Giveaway)

I was given a Rumps Around Thirsty Rumps diaper for review and one to giveaway.  This diaper was adorable first and foremost.  And that is what is most important isn't it?  I mean zoo animals.  Be still my heart.

Look at the zoo animals (and his stunning blue eyes)

This diaper will fit from 6.5 pounds to 40 pounds.  I can say I agree with that.  Ollie is 17 pounds in this picture and I just moved it to the second snap setting.  There is four different size settings.  I put this diaper on Destructo to see and it fit although at 36 pounds he was definitely at the far extreme.  I really like the cut of this diaper as well.  Even when I forget to check it sits more on his groin and not on his chunky legs (which causes him to get horrible red marks that don't fade for weeks.)

This has four snaps (two on each side) for the wings.  I had no problems with wing droop.  I also love the snap wrap feature to store poopie diapers in the wet bag when out and about.  The outer of this diaper is PUL and I had no problems at all with leaks.

Fits well on his chunky legs 

The inner of the diaper is organic bamboo cotton and is so very soft.  It reminded me of sweatshirt like material and has double gussets which was awesome to contain breastfed baby poop.  The inserts that came with this diaper were three layers of 100% bamboo and were very absorbent.  They are so thin that even stuffed with two the diaper is super trim.  

Overall I really love this diaper and there wasn't a single feature I didn't like.  I really wish I had a few more of them in my stash.  The price is good for a bamboo diaper as well at 16 each.  Great news!  One lucky reader will get a chance to get a free Thirsty Rumps diaper.  Be sure to enter the giveaway below.

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I can't sit on my couch and a pioneer I am not

I went to sit on my big comfy couch to put the finishing touches on a cloth diapering review and giveaway post (watch for it tomorrow.)  I realized that my entire couch is covered in stuff.  Clothes, toys, blankets, pillows, stuff everywhere.  Stuff stuff stuff.

So then I sat on my bed.  The stuff was too much to deal with.  And why should the stuff stress me out.  I pawned Destructo off on my youngest sister and actually was super productive today.  But obviously not productive enough since my couch is unsittable.  I managed to clean both boys rooms, change their sheets, make their beds, vacuum and dust both rooms, even move dressers and get all the toys that accumulated under them.  Yay me.  But I still can't sit on my couch.  

This got me to thinking about pioneer women.  They didn't have all the stuff we do.  I wonder if they were happier?  I mean other than when life was super hard.  Were they happier with less material things and a simpler life.  I do think I would be happier with far less stuff.  I hate the clutter that resides in my life and house.  And I am working on taming it.  Each and every year since I have had kids it has gotten better and better but there is still a lot of clutter.

My ceiling fan is dusty.  Like growing a fuzz coat dusty.  I see this every evening as I am about to go to bed.  I am going to clean it tomorrow if I do nothing else.  Then I will change my sheets since they will have dust on them from cleaning it.  All that to say that maybe the forward progress in my cluttered master bedroom will continue this week.  That was a tangent.

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Pioneer women probably didn't have to clean bathrooms very often since they didn't have them.  I mean can you clean an outhouse?  Of course they had to do far more work than I have to do just to have food to eat and clean clothes to wear.  But speaking of clothing, while there laundry was far harder to wash than mine is, they also had far less of it so it probably balanced out.  But they had to cook all the time.  I hate cooking.

So long blog post to come to this conclusion.  I would suck as a pioneer woman.  I hate cooking, am not particularly good at killing chickens or any animal really, can't bake bread, or sew, or use old time cloth diapers.  Yeah probably best I live in this era.  Oh and my couch is still cluttered.