Where does the time go? I think of blog posts in my head all the time, but I hardly ever write them out. Lately I’ve been stressing out with work, church calling, and trying to get ready for our baby boy. Since multi-tasking is not my specialty, I am fairly disappointed in the results of most of the areas of my life.
But I am working on that. I have a friend who is a life coach, and she needs practice, so she is coaching me for free. I have wanted a life coach for a while now, but couldn’t actually afford to hire one. I’m hoping she will help me find my motivation and find a way to organize and balance all the areas of my life.
And preparing for the baby has really become a huge part of my life. (Maybe it will prepare me for when the actual baby is the huge part of my life…) I am doing a program called Hypnobabies, which helps you have a natural childbirth experience. However, this program requires an hour commitment from me every day. I basically have to listen to their hypnosis sessions, learning how to put myself in a hypnotic state, and learning how to create an anesthesia effect on my body. It’s exciting, but difficult to fit into my crazy busy days.
Then there’s the fact that we have decided to cloth diaper our baby. And not only that, I decided to MAKE cloth diapers for our baby. I am not sure what I was thinking, except the fact that cloth diapers are expensive. And disposable diapers are even more expensive. I have already made about 6 diapers, and they cost me pennies to make because I used old T-shirts and flannel sheets to make them. I recently bought some cute flannel fabric from JoAnn, so the next few diapers will not be as cheap. But they’re still cheaper than buying them.
Do you know how many diapers babies need? A lot. Apparently they can pee and poop their way through 10-20 diapers a day. So I’ve got a lot of diaper-making ahead of me, especially since the ones I’m making now are infant size. He will also need some bigger diapers for when he grows. I’ll post some pictures eventually of the diapers I make, because some of them are so cute!
Tonight is my baby shower, and I’m very excited. I can’t believe it’s that time already…
Holl Jo, well it sounds like you are having the normal thoughts that we all have. Wait until you’re 53 and thinking what in the heck have I been doing all these years??? At least I can look back and say that I raised some dang fine kids.
Wow, you are really an inspiration if you put your kid in cloth diapers. Diapers are expensive and I know my mom used cloth diapers on me. You will have to let us know how it works out and how cleaning those goes. I always wondered what the cleaning aspect of it would be like. The hypnosis thing sounds really cool. Let us know how that goes too. When are you due again? Sometime in August right? I am excited for you both. He is going to be so cute. I hear cloth diapers cause less diaper rash so you will have that plus. Diaper rash can take holes out of their little rears so you are probably going to have less of that! My baby goes through about 10-11 diapers a day by the way. A pack of diapers(95 diapers) runs anywhere between 15-20.00$. I am always scouting the paper for coupons.
AWWWWWWW….are you insisting to make all your cloth diapers? I would be more than happy to donate to your cause.
I would have hooked you up at your shower if I would have realized it!
I didn’t do cloth, but ONLY because we lived in an apartment for so many years that didn’t have a washer and dryer. However had I had that, I would have. It makes potty training a lot easier from what I have heard from others who chose this route.
Holli you are doing great. Breathe in and out a lot. Do only what you can do. It will all be okay. I promise.