I attended my first twitter party last night and I'm so glad I did!  It was put on by Holisticmoms.org, Jennifer Margulis, author and Mothering Magazine writer, and Bummis Diapers.  The party was all about cloth diapering.  I had a great time chatting with other moms about clothdiapers, poop, amonia,  and everything else in between! 

It is so great knowing there is such a support system out there on the interwebs for mothers and not just cloth diapering mothers, I mean for all mothers in general.  Everyone was very willing to help answer questions and I didn't feel out of place at all!  It was really wonderful!  I was able to get lots of helpful information about why my diapers are stinky and how to get rid of the smell.  Which by the way has been taken care of now! :)  It was great hearing all the reasons why people choose to cloth diaper - from cost, to checmicals, to dragging the trash bags of dirty diapers to the curb!  I really enjoyed myself and will definitely be participating in more in the future.

Another bonus to these twitter parties are the prizes that are given away!  There were a bunch of fantastic prizes given away frm Bummis (Thank you Bummis) and wouldn't you know it, I won the grand prize!  I never win anything so I was so so so excited to win! 

Check it out, I won a Bummis Starter Kit!  Yeah the whole kit!!!

• 18 baby size Organic Cotton Prefold diapers (4 x 8 x 4 layers thick)
• 2 Super Whisper Wraps – medium
• 2 Super Brites – medium
• 1 roll Bio-Soft liners – large
• 5 reusable Fleece Liners
• 1 Fabulous Wet Bag – large (available exclusively in the Kit!)
• User Guide

It's been a bit since I updated this list so I took a look at it today and realized I actually did do a few things off the list! :)  Yippee!

3. Buy a new car.  Yes we did!  Just last week we bought a van!  Yes, you read that right!  We are now proud owners of a 2008 Dodge Grand Caravan!  Insert all the mom jokes, giggles, and what have you here.  I'm okay with that I'm really digging the new van! :)

36. Clean my scrap booking room.  I'm sure the only reason this one was completed was because we are getting ready to change Hannh over to her big girl room which was once my scrab booking room.  I have since put all my scrap booking stuff in bins to be put away until I can decide on another room to clutter! :)

48. Take Hannah swimming in the lake.  We've actually done this a couple of times now.  The weather has been wonderful and we've been spending our weekends at the trailer which has a gorgeous lake!  We've been done there a couple of times and Hannah has really enjoyed it!  She is not afraid of the water at all and once she has her water wings on she has NO FEAR!

Thats it, I've crossed off 3 more things on my list not to bad if you ask me! :)

Check back with my original list to see all the things I've crossed off so far!  Here it is!

So I know all my readers have been patiantly waiting to hear the results of our U/S on Friday!  So I won't make you wait any longer.

The verdict is in and we are having a

Boy!

My mommy instincts were right and we'll be welcoming a bundle of blue to our family late October early November!  We are very excited, actually I'm not nervous at all which I didn't really expect.  I thought I'd be freaking out a little over the fact that our new baby will have a penis!  But I'm okay with it, actually I'm more than okay with it, I'm really excited!

Now we just have to think of a name for our little man! :)

Hannah loved helping me out and stuffing all the diapers!  It made the process a few seconds longer but it was so fun and so darn cute to watch her try her hardest to do what mommy was doing.  I am also super excited that she's just as happy and excited about cloth as I am! :)
This is our new stash of cloth diapers (we are missing 10 diapers, Kristen didn't have enough gender neutral colours in stock).


I also bought all the prefolds we are going to use on the new baby, cloth wipes, inserts, wet bags, laundry bags, liners, you name it, we are ready to diaper some bums!  I did have a picture of all of it together but it didn't upload to Flickr so it's still at home on my computer! :( But it's really pretty!  I really never thought I'd be so excited about cloth diapers!  But I am!!!!

I'm sure a lot of you have heard heartbreaking stories of babies, toddlers, and young children sick with cancer. This story is one of those.

This little guy, Sam is just 5 months old and has stage 4 High Risk Neuroblastoma, he's been given a 30% cure rate!

In order to take care of Sam I dropped to PRN or “as needed” status with my job, which meant that we were no longer eligible for benefits and starting in June will be paying for Cobra. My husband’s employer does not offer insurance and my husband and I are not eligible for private insurance due to preexisting conditions. At first I entertained the notion that I could still work 3 days a week, but soon realized that wasn’t feasible. We’ve only spent a handful of nights out of the hospital since his diagnosis.

Sam was approved for passport (medicaid.) The reason we would like to keep Cobra coverage for him in addition to the passport is because if for some reason he is dropped from passport and we need to add him back on the cobra plan there is a chance that there will be a waiting period before any preexisting conditions are covered if there is any lapse in coverage. We’re trying to play it as safe as possible. Cobra seems like a lot for us to pay for but is nothing compared to the astronomical amount we would have to pay for just ONE admission without insurance. But if worse comes to worst, my husband and I will just go without insurance.

I don’t know if this is divulging too much, but with my husband’s paycheck we can pay for our mortgage and bills and that’s it. There’s no extra for food or gas or necessities… and there’s really not $1,500 extra for Cobra. Next month our car will be paid off which will help. We are truly just trusting that God will provide and so far he has.

The 4 year old article that Rabbi Shmuley Boteach, host of TLC’s Shalom in the Home wrote regarding Breastfeeding hurting your marriage. It has recently been published by Beliefnet.com and has hit the blogging world by storm.

I was going to because it really really bothered me but I think it's been talked about plenty by bloggers especially mommy bloggers and especially breastfeeding mommy bloggers. It's an old article plus he's already "kind of" apoligized about it here. I say kind of because I'm not really sure it's much of an apology as it is just a rewording/reworking of what he wrote in the original article.

Anyway, that's all I'm going to say about it. I certianly have my opinions and I think anyone close to me, especially DH has already heard all I have to say about it.

Read it for yourself, make your own opinions and if you're interested come back here and leave a comment for me! A little discussion is always appreciated around here! :)

Also if you are interested in reading a few blog entries check these out Jill at BabyRabies, or Kim Rosas from Dirty Diaper Laundry. I think they both make great points and feel very much like how I felt after reading it myself.

-Kandice