Following on from my ramblings about our family’s environmental impact and our attempts at self sufficiency I thought you might like to see these photographs. First off, this is the first broccoli that we’ve harvested from our garden. We ate it in a vegetable lasange and it was amazing!
And these are my girls in their cloth nappies. We ran out of disposables last week and I realised that I had 20 bajillion* nappies that could be pressed into service, so I popped them back into cloth and remembered just how easy it is to deal with them when you’re in the house. My only criticism of cloth nappies has been how awkward they are to carry when I’m out and have more than one child because I have to lug the dirty ones around with me but when I’m at home there’s really no excuse.
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This post was written by Vonnie on July 24, 2009
Wow, great-looking broccoli! My broccoli ran to seed
I really suck at gardening, heh.
Carrying the dirty nappies around has never really bothered me, although I only had two in cloth for about 6 months, perhaps I would have tired of it by now otherwise. But then I remember when I was a child, my mum always grabbing a few perfume sample cards from department stores so her bag didn’t smell like dirty nappies (before proper wetbags and stuff).
Do you knit nappy covers? If so, what pattern do you use?
using cloth at home and disposables out is a good compromise – i never used cloth on my kids but i did on a kid i minded so i can appreciate the hassle factor of multiple kids and nappies to lug about!
that broccoli looks great!
hurrah! good work on getting them back in cloth. We got lazy too and only use disposables now.
I just love the photo of the little ones in their nappies.
LOVE IT!!!!