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Toast: Bling my Bag
Posted by aunt mommy on 17 Apr 2008 | Tagged as: 93DB70, TOAST, politics, reprints, reuse
Author’s Note: I wrote this out a long time ago, before I came up with the original TOAST (Think of a Something Thursday) format. We’ve come a long way, baybee!
TOAST: Think of a Something Thursday
Long before I acquired my stable of shopping bags, and when I bothered to remember, I’d tell a store clerk trying to bag one or two items: “No thank you”. A habit borne of managing to accumulate too much junk (which I still do, adventure-girl/packrat that I am) but a habit that also fit in nicely with the Reduce part of Reduce, Reuse, Recycle.
When I was a kid, the grocery stores in my area were dominated by paper sacks. And that was it for a long time. They were great, useful - book covers, art papers, shipping paper, patterns, “canvas”. When plastic bags started coming around along with the advent of “bag your own” stores in my neck of the woods, the bags were your typical two handled affair seen today. Us kids adapted and used them to make simple box kites. Tie a string, find a gust of wind, and go. No sticks, no tails, no tape and paper and glue … But no sharks teeth or dragons, either. Nothing to paint or enhance. I think after one or two gos we were done and bored.
I started out my latest foray into self-bagging and non-plastic bagging like I do most things. In fits and spurts. (The hub asked me the other day how long my to-do list was. I asked in return, “which volume?”.) But I rounded up a sampling of totes I had anyway (I prefer simple totes instead of most diaper bags) along with the inexpensive reusable bags I mentioned the other day.
Surely there was one perfect bag to hold my ‘fancy’ cheeses, wines, crusty loafs of bread, and swirly pops for the kids, right? Be it a quick trip for a parents-only dinner or the restocking of the hurricane pantry, just grab a cloth bag and go, yes? No, not so much. Continue Reading »
Of course, this is re-run week for Works For Me Wednesday
Posted by aunt mommy on 01 Apr 2008 | Tagged as: reprints, works for me wednesday
And here I’ve only run one! Just my luck. :)
Anyway, here’s an oldie but a goodie … Sticky Notes to Defeat the Mean Potties.
I have one answer for her. Post-ittm notes. I always lose mine, but a headband or diaper cover works, too.
I occasionally am caught off-guard in an auto-flush bathroom without my little helpful squares; usually I’ll have something else (cloth wipe, cloth changing pad, other soon-to-be-washed garment) to work in its stead.
Find more helpful tips on the WFMW Roundup here at RocksInMyDryer.Net
The things they don’t put in baby books … could fill a book
Posted by aunt mommy on 30 May 2007 | Tagged as: family, insane in the mundane, reprints
Originally written January 2004 … unearthed for a “parenting moment” contest.
Sometimes I wonder about baby books.
Why don’t they tell you not to rub the baby down with a little curry powder?
So, as some of you may have heard, I had a fun morning. 11am I get a call from daycare that Wolfie has a red rash all over his tummy and backside and diaper area that came seemingly out of nowhere. I call the hub to consult, as he changed the diaper this morning. Wolfie had some rash in the diaper area, but not all over, this morning. Continue Reading »
Always write it down. All of it. Keep records. And pictures.
Posted by aunt mommy on 12 Jan 2007 | Tagged as: family, reprints
Day one, post one. Already into re-runs.
I have been planning my first post for three days, maybe four. Helvetica, our youngest, had had a bowel movement of epic proportions at daycare, and I intended to go on about the wonderous joy that is poop. Maybe work in a reference to the Madness of King George while I was at it.
However, our eldest, Wolfie, spiked a fever last night and a cough that had him barfing, keeping us out of work and school today. First time he’s really been sick for Dr Cool, first time he’s been very sick at all, since we left Mc Doctor’s practice and I locked in Parent of the Year 2005.
We spent the day going to Dr Cool, taking a rapid Strep-B test, and ruling out pneumonia with a chest x-ray (he liked the cow-patterned lead apron he had to wear). He’s resting now, with a heavy-duty cough suppressant helping him finally get some sleep, and I’m about to cork off as well. Dr Cool has Saturday hours; I need to call and get a follow up tomorrow. I’ve just spent the last hour looking for this message I wrote my friends back in the spring of 2005, and getting my camera phone pictures of the rashes and hives printed out to add to his medical record. Meantime, enjoy. I’ll write about poop later.