Cloth Diapering- First Day Recap!

I wanted to share my thoughts after finishing my first day of cloth diapering so as my opinions evolve, everyone is up to date! 

I need more diapers... Stat! I bought 5 diapers and 10 inserts from a mama friend, not nearly enough.  With 5 I would have to do laundry at least every day or supplement with disposables. 

Poop?... I was nervous about my first poopy diaper, lets face it this is the least appealing thing about cloth diapering! But it was not bad at all, Hunter is at the stage where most of his poop is actually turd shape so none of the poop even ended up on the diaper it just rolled out when I pulled his diaper down. 

Cloth diapering is much more time consuming, at least right now it is.  I think the more I cloth diaper the better my system will be worked out the more efficient I will be. 

The brand diaper I am using right now is Coolababy. Hope this helps you guys! Let me know if you have any questions! 

Getting Organized!

I am pretty sure if I wasn't organized I would not survive day to day.  I came across free printables on diy home sweet home that I have been using and so far have been making my schedule easier.

 

 

I made the comment to Chris the other day that we needed to work on our budget, so I am adding that to my to do list. I've been reading up on Dave Ramsey's methods and he has some really good advice! Lot's of motivation to get out of debt and stay out of debt and live a financially free life.

 

So far emeals has been amazing! They send out a new meal plan every wednesday and as long as I can get to the grocery store (or Chris can, cough, cough) we are good to go.  Last night we had clean sloppy joes that were really good, only took 20 minutes to make and I had plenty of leftovers to bring to work today.

 

Being super busy and taking all of this on has its good days and its bad days. I was so excited to have a free night with my cousin, Mandy this past wednesday to find out the night before that Chris did a switch and had to work at 9p... I was heartbroken to say the least. Of course I held it in until the next day and then just cried all day but whatever.  I got that out of my system and now on to the next task. I just hope all this hard work on my end pays off.  

Emeals

Something cool I found that I am giving a try, I just signed up for it so I don't know if I like it yet or not but all the reviews I found sound good.

They send you weekly meal plans (with whatever diet you are on- clean eating is an option!) and they send you everything broken down with meals and directions and then they send everything all together with a grocery list. There is even an app for it, which as far as I can tell so far is awesome!

 

If you decide to sign up, use the link above so I get credit for referring you.
Also, I used coupon code School15 and got 15% off :)
Hope I like it because I committed to them for a year! (its only $5/month)

Recap week 1 clean eating & back to work!

Week 1 was defiantly a learning curve for me but a good learning curve! I was able to get my meals planned and grocery shopping done for the week prior to my first day back to work. Having everything planned out went great! The only mistake I made was I only planned meals up until my last day off and not my 3 days off so that combined with my Scentsy open house and Scentsy team party I fell completely off the track. I did notice a change in how I felt!  Bring on week 2!  

I sell Scentsy!

& I love it! But I really didnt make this blog to talk about Scentsy.  I am going to limit my Scentsy posts to once a month unless something REALLY exciting happens and I am too excited not to share!

September's Warmer of the Month- 10% off!

 

September 1st brought the NEW Fall/Winter catalog! amazing! If you want a catalog let me know! How cute is this new scentsy buddy! If you host a party in September you have the option to order it and a book that goes along with it!! I am so excited to read the book with Alexis!

 

 

September brings 10% off all Velata products too!

Great time to stock up for all your special occasions this fall!

 

My websites:

ChristyLipscomb.scentsy.us

ChristyAbrams.velata.us

ChristyAbrams.graceadele.us