Katydid Cloth Diaper Winner

Wow, I cannot believe how good these giveaways get. With each one it seems like we’re getting more and more entries. I love it! I love hearing from you all, and seeing my inbox over flow with comments is nice too….With further ado:

Kayla is a new mommy of a sweet little girl. She’s also new to the blogging world and has quite the cute little blog going on at Money Sew, Monkey Do.  GO on over and give her some loving. If you post a comment on her blog you’ll get an extra entry into our next Favorite Fluff giveaway!

Kayla, you have 48 hours to get in touch with me! :) I’ll need your address so I can mail the diaper out!

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In other news, it’s super nice here. Like 30 degrees above normal. So you can tell we’ve been outside quite a bit in the last couple days. Of course I’ve been cleaning up dog poo, but we’ve also been getting our yard back into shape. I love it, I love being outside.

Since I’ve been knee deep in leaves, brush and well sand when I find time. My camera has been in the house. I don’t have many “blog worthy” things and so I guess I’m going to be asking for your help!

It’s been a while since I did one of these types of posts. So I think it’s really time for another one!

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Ask us anything!
Anything at all.
Want to know my favorite supper to make?
Maybe the one food each of my kids won’t eat no matter how hard I try?
Or maybe you must know what my favorite color is?

So there you have it. I’m leaving this open until Tuesday April 6th. Leave a comment on this blog and let me know what you want to know. Or if you’d prefer to email me that’s fine too! :)

Memo

Dear Jackson,

Did you not get the Memo at the beginning of winter?

I know I told you.

We have a strict rule at our house. You know the rule. But you seem to break the rule all the time.

Honestly. It’s getting old.

Pooping on the small patch of lawn that houses my clothesline is a HUGE no-no.

Come 'on! You know the rule!

So, don’t say you haven’t been told. I am warning you publicly.

Sincerely,
Cleaner up of ALL dog poop, and not that just left where I have to walk to hang clothes!

 

And yes, I know my Christmas tree is still up….in this picture! But then again this picture was taken in late January! I promise the tree is now down and stored away. Although I did just take a strand of Christmas lights down this weekend! :(

Favorite Fluff Friday – Katydid Cloth Diapers

I was lucky enough recently to purchase some sweet Katydid diapers off of Baby Half Off’s website at an awesome price. I came across Katydid diapers a while back when I was looking for new diapers. So when I saw them for a discounted price I didn’t waste anytime and picked up 3 for myself!!
Katydid diapers are a one size pocket diaper that has three rise adjust settings with two rows of snap closures. Something else that Katydid diapers have that most diapers don’t, is their newborn side snaps. Katydid diapers feature a waterproof outer layer with a micro fleece inside as well as two Microfiber inserts!

When we first got these diapers, I couldn’t wait to try them out. Sadly to admit, I’m the type of person who doesn’t follow instructions very well (don’t tell my husband I actually admitted that, oh wait, Hi honey!) and so I’m also the type of person who doesn’t wash her diapers before I put them on Kaitlynn. Unless it’s bamboo or a bamboo insert. Here I am off track again!

Any who, if you read that last paragraph you already guessed that I didn’t wash them before I put them on Kaitlynn. They did awesome! No leaks and I let her get them pretty wet! DH even decided we should put her in it overnight. I said whatever, if she leaks you’re changing the bed sheets (she’s on the bottom bunk!). The next morning she woke up dry, she didn’t leak. This is from girl who is SOAKING everything here lately at night. I only used one Microfiber insert!



Also another thing I love about Katydid diapers are the newborn side snaps. I know you’re thinking but they say newborn. If you have a skinny daughter like mine, those newborn side snaps come in handy! We’re constantly having wing droop with all of Kaitlynn’s diapers, and with Katydid we don’t have the problem. The only problem I could see, is if we had another baby that was supper skinny like Kaitlynn, there are only one set of snaps to over lap with. With Kaitlynn we are met in the middle. But since I don’t have a baby to try them on, I can’t give an accurate review on that aspect.

Katydid diapers come in 4 cute colors. I’m not sure I’ve ever seen one in the Twilight (dark blue) color anywhere else! To me it is the most beautiful color!!! They’re all so bright and cheerful.

BUY IT:
Head on over to Katydid’s online Store or search for your favorite retailer.
Each diaper retails for $17.95 with two inserts

WIN IT!!!
Since I got such a great deal on the Baby Half Off website I bought one diaper extra incase I liked them!

One lucky reader will get the Sea Spray OS Katydid diaper!

Mandatory Entry:
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Extra Entries:
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Just because entries:
I’m totally in love with our new Online Diaper Boutique in Nebraska, and so I want to show her some love! Jessica from Top to Bottom Baby has started a new blog, and has a giveaway going on right now for HARD ROCK!!! from Rockin Green.

Enter the giveaway going on at Top to Bottom Baby Blog (5 entries)
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Become a Fan of Top to Bottom Baby on Facebook (5 entries)
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Fine Print:
This giveaway ends April 1, 2010. I was not provided any compensation or product from Katydid, all opinions are my own & honest. The product being offered up for giveaway was purchased by myself and will be mailed by myself.

Wordless Wednesday – Kaitlynn’s First Dentist Appointment

 

She was so relaxed! Have I ever told you how much I LOVE our dentist! They’re GREAT!

 

The Hard Subject

Ever have something you don’t want to talk about, but know deep down you have to talk about it? Yup. I’m having one of those HEY WAKE UP and talk/listen idiot! Life is here, and it’s smacking you in the face!

What the hell am I talking about? Work. NOT being a SAHM anymore. Something I don’t really want to do, but it’s finally possibly the right time in our lives for me to go to work Full Time. You see I work part time, every Saturday morning I put in my two hours at the Post Office. I LOVE what I do! Honestly I love it, I love the people, I love the challenge of finding people and connecting them with that long lost card from Grandma. Did I mention that I love the people and interacting with them?

You see there is a chance for me to go full time in July 2011. By then Kaitlynn will be almost 4, and headed to preschool in the fall. BUT for me to get there, I’ve got to put in full time hours for less than full time pay. I need to find a full time sitter that won’t charge me an arm & half my right leg to let me drop the girls in at a day or two’s notice! Because really that’s what’s stopping me. . . .

Or so I thought. As Joel and I were talking about it tonight, I realized. That’s not what’s holding me back. Heck look, I did it for 6 weeks, and then another 6 weeks, and then yet another 6 weeks before I was finally able to stay home full time. That’s when it hit me that it wasn’t daycare that was holding me back.

It’s the possibility of us having another baby. Possibility. You see because right now I’d love to believe that God has another baby in his great big plan for us.  But I’m not certain. Uncertainty is what holds me back. I deeply WANT another baby, I would cherish one with open arms, even if that baby wasn’t physically/mentally healthy. I just  long to hold another baby, MY baby in my arms.

At the same time, it’s time. It’s time for me to get a job, and help support my family. Times are hard, and jobs like this don’t come along to most people. Straight out of high school, with no college education, and I could make MORE than my husband. Who by the way went to College for two year, earned his Associates Degree.

For the last 7 years I have been a Stay at Home mom. I’ve welcomed 2 more babies, cried over the loss of one, and well enjoyed every stinking minute of it.

But we’re in a time when the Economy SUCKS. And that’s nicely put. Along with whatever the Obama new healthcare bill will do to us, I’m scared. I’m scared for where our family will be in 5 years. Because in 5 years I’ll have a 12, 10, 8 year olds. Two ALMOST teenage girls. We all know what that will mean. Name brand jeans, shoes, hair & makeup.

We’re at a point in our family life that we could really benefit from a two income family. We could save, actually save money, instead of living paycheck to paycheck. We could pay for our children’s college…and YES I do insist they go to college.

So I’m torn, what to do. Because really if I go for this job, I’m probably going to say good bye to the hopes of wanting another baby.

What would you do?

Sale Day

Today is the day. The day Joel has been waiting for since January 2, 2009. You see this is the day we see if our cattle are worth something to anyone other than ourselves. If you’ve been around this blog since the beginning, you will know that we once had a similar day a few years back.

Today we will find out where Wall-E will find a new home. Where he will make some cute little Gelbvieh Babies.

Good bye to our sweet little pet!

 

To the one we could lead on the trailer with an empty bucket!

 

Good bye sweet W01 – Wall-E

 

The Diaper Sprayer Winner

Seems the girls caught whatever it was that I had the beginning of the week. MacKenzie was complaining of her tummy hurting last night before/after supper, and then spend part of the night throwing up. Kaitlynn seems to have diarrhea and is overly clingy, cranky and just plain whiny.

I have to admit our house was a complete mess earlier this week. With me being sick our house doesn’t get picked up like it should, laundry & dishes pile up. Which all means that I spend a whole day trying to get it all cleaned back up! I spent the majority of yesterday cleaning, and didn’t even get the winner posted of this giveaway. A few of you realized I never closed the comments and were able to sneak a few comments in there later on in the day. Usually I like to type up my reviews the day before I post, so I have the time to go back over them. Yesterday it didn’t happen.

Just to prove my point….here is the mess! I don’t have after pictures…maybe I’ll do that today, just know it’s spotless! YAY! I love a clean house, I even did a bit of spring cleaning and took the curtains down….they’re not washed yet, but oh well. There are plenty of loads of laundry to do today. The dishwasher is already running, today I’ll give it a break. It ran 3 times yesterday!!

 

And just a cutesy shot of Kaitlynn, jumping on the couches of course. She knows I don’t like it, but she seems to be the one who is always doing it……and getting away with it! But I didn’t admit that.

So if you all can’t tell I’m sad to admit that we’re not going to be having a Favorite Fluff Friday Post today. With Kaitlynn being clingy as all get out, it’s not happening. Typing up this post has been a complete challenge. I’d better get the winner announced.

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Since my comments quit numbering after 200, you’ll see it says 98. Yup that’s 298.

Andrea is a mommy to two little girls and a baby BOY on the way! Go on over to her blog, check her and the little's out!

*Andrea, you have 48 hours to get in touch with me or I’ll choose another winner.