Boring

My life is pretty boring. At the moment I'm trying not to be burnt out with teaching. My classes are all progressing well, and I have ideas for all my final papers (which is more than I can say for this point in the past two semesters).

So I'm looking forward to Thanksgiving. I have a goal to write 5 pages of each paper over break, and then five pages on each in each of the weeks following. We'll see how THAT goes! :-) I have this tendency ever since I came here to procrastinate. I never did it at BYU...here, it's my lifestyle! Odd.

I've also been thinking about Christmas. There was a dusting of snow on the ground this morning...it gave me hope for Christmas! I love snow. (Well, at least until mid-February when I'm so sick of it that I want to fly to the Dominican Republic just for the sake of having sun!) I have good memories of snow at Christmas time, and I can't WAIT to see BeeBoo's reaction when she sees it, since she's old enough to "get it" now.

Last of all, I can finally feel the baby moving around. I think it's interesting that the only non-boring parts of my life are kid based...this should probably send me a message. :-) But it's cool...and for me with my obsessive personality, very reassuring. I like to know that baby's still doing what it's supposed to. We did the hang-your-ring-over-your-belly test to see if it was a boy or girl....my wedding ring says boy. That'll sure be exciting! I've been getting mixed vibes...I don't have any inclination so far. Any thoughts there would be appreciated... :-D

BumGenius

So I have to put a plug in on my blog for the cloth diapers we've been using for the last 7 months. The only complaint I've ever heard from reviewers on them is "They only lasted a year!" Now, anyone that knows anything about elastic will tell you that if you're washing it every other day, you'll be lucky for it to last a year!

I have LOVED these diapers...so much that I just bought another dozen despite the fact that it's a $200 investment. (Again, if you think about that one...on average, we bought a $22 box of diapers for BeeBoo every three weeks....more often as a baby...that means that in a matter of 25 weeks [about 6 months] they've paid for themselves....or at least you've not lost any money on them compared to disposables) They work just like a disposable, you just have to wash them and put them together. They have a cover that looks like a disposable, with a pocket in the back that you put a thick diaper pad in. So you take them apart to wash, wash, put them together, and you're good to go! No pins, no separate cover.

And these ones have never leaked. Well, maybe there's an exception to that statement. We're not great about changing Bee on a schedule, mostly because of shuffling her around. Ben will think I've changed her before I gave her to him, or vice versa...so she ends up in a diaper for a long stretch sometimes. But if there is a leak issue, it's because we've let it go too long. We use them over night, and they work really well. Also, she hasn't had diaper rash like she used to get from disposables.

So, if you're thinking about cloth diapers, these are a great bang for your buck, they're relatively easy to deal with (I mean, you have to wash them, but that's cloth diapers!), and they're easy enough to change that Dad doesn't have an excuse. The website I order them from is cottonbabies.com. Oh, also, an afterthought...they have a one-year warranty!

Worldview

These maps are really cool.

I just stayed up way too late spending time looking through them.