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September 19, 2008 09:29PM
Though to be fair, I'm now chasing after an extremely nimble for her chub 6 month old and trying to get a fledgling business going.
Since I've started cloth diapering Torryn, I've found one of the best and least expensive covers are knit or chroceted woolen soakers that I can make for her myself. There is no end to the variety I can come up with and I've gotten such a great response from the ones I've made for T, that I've begun making a few and selling them at cost to friends to sort of test the market. So far so good. I've sold 5 so far and have feelers out for several more orders.
Things on the home front are furstrating and glorious all at once. My court case is basically stalled in the discovery phase. But it's pretty obvious my mom's allegations are petty amd groundless and so we make have a bigger advantage than originally thouht. So YAY! The kids have settled into life there are are doing well which both pleases me and makes me sad because I'm missing out. I'd made plans to have them for a weekend next week, but my mom is refusing to allow me the time so I'm spending more money for my lawyer to try and get her to change her mind... More on that later.
Torryn is now a whole half year old!!! She's amazing and I love every minute I get to spend with her. She's sweet natured and funny as all get out! Today she spent no less than 15 mnutes hugging the support poll of her jumaproo and then breaking out into peals of laughter. Who couldn't love that!
So hectic and annoying but fun all at the same time is a faily accurate description of my life right now.
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July 31, 2008 11:27PM
Or so it would seem... My mom and I are embroiled in a nasty battle over my two older children and it would seem that I've lost the current battle.... but not the war. Come Aug. 15th, I may have to surrender my children to her at a hearing for temporary orders based on a slew of nonsensical allegations she has thrown together... My lawyer seems to think that we may not be able to disprove a negative here, but we're pulling out all the stops until the judge has his say.
I've spent a lot of time yelling at nothing trying to come to some sort of understanding, and though I'm not a religious person, I have to think that there is some reason out there that my family is having to endure this latest onsluaght of crap! This is a very bitter pill to swallow and is very much the reason I've not been on the site much lately. This newest development coupled with Dan having to deploy has made things very hard to cope with.
I do have a lot to be thankful for... I have 3 beautiful children who love me, a wonderful husband who will stick by me.. and I have to hold on to the fact that this will all work out in the best interest of my children. Let's just hope that the judge agrees with me that their place is with my husband, T and me.
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July 14, 2008 10:54AM
I've made the decision to begin cloth diapering Torryn. I have various reasons for doing this, the first being that we are going through 10 dipes a day right now as Torryn is a super soaker and everytime I have to take out the trash, I cringe at the thought of having those dipes just taking up space in the landfill. They don't breakdown like they claim to. T goes through 100 dipes every 10 days. Holy Moses that's a lot of trash!
There's also the fact that they stink like chlorine. YUCK! Chlorine irritates the heck out of my skin, so I can only imagine what it would do to her skin. The other day I found that the lining on her sposie had failed and she had these little gel balls all over her diaper area. GROSS! It freaked me out. It took forever to clean her up. And in my opinion, that's wrose than poop, because I just don't know what's in that gel stuff.
Then there's the cost factor. Unfortunately, we're locked in to paying for another 2 years on Dan's truck. We won't be getting a second vehicle because the cost of gas is just to much to justify the expense. But the truck costs a ton to fuel, so the money we save on buying sposies will go to fund the gas for the truck.
And the most shallow of factors... Cloth is so cute! They have a plethora of designs, colors and styles. I could just go crazy buying them, but I'm not that type of person. I bought 5 really cute things and kept the inner cloth just plain inbleached because NO ONE sees that part. LOL I know several women who've spent thousands getting the designer dipes. LOL I've spent about $170 so far and will probably stop at the $400 mark because that should be enough to get us through a couple days before I have to wash.
So anyway, that's what we've been up to lately. I know Dan isn't thrilled at the idea of cloth, but I'm hoping to bring him around in time. The kids are really excited about it though. Saydie is looking forward to picking out T's dipes just like she picks out T's clothes everyday. LOL
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