Something funny from last night

So, last night as Brian and I were going through the fridge trying to find something for dinner. He pulled out a jar of Jamaican Jerk Seasoning and said, "Is this still in here? How do you know when Jerk seasoning goes bad?"

I replied, "When it turns into Jamaican A**hole Seasoning."

the gDiaper

I have been thinking a lot about diapers lately. Cloth or disposable… Which is better? Which is more cost effective? Which is more convenient? Can I handle washing dirty diapers? What type is accepted at daycare? Which one will fit best with our lifestyle and our values?

I can think of many things that I like and don’t like about both. For example, I like the ease of disposables, use once, throw in trash. But this also is one of the things I don’t like, use once, throw away, how wasteful and bad for the environment (they last for like 500 years in landfills, you know.)

Then I think, cloth diapers, they are reusable… and then I picture myself, walking through the store, with an adorable, cooing baby in one arm and a diaper bag full of dirty diapers on the other. The smell of baby poop wafting along behind me as I stroll down the aisle. Gross!

I could list out all the things I like and dislike about both, but I don’t want to bore you with that, since I think I found the perfect solution…the gDiaper!

They are offer all the benefits of the pocket style cloth diaper but also have a biodegradable insert that can be flushed, composted or thrown away. (They decompose completely in about 90 days.) They aren’t overly expensive, you can get them at local grocery stores or online and you don't have to buy two separate styles. And I really love the fact that if I am in a situation where I want the convenience of a disposable diaper I can use it and know that they won’t sit in landfills for 500 years. Single use diapers with none of the guilt.

I think I’m in love. :o)

Now, I know I shouldn’t go on and on about a product that I haven’t used yet, but I am getting them. With the discovery of the gDiaper I am excited that I can use one system at home and one on the go, without feeling like I am ruining the planet, and only have to invest in one system. And if I discover that I am not the cloth diaper type of mom, I can still use the gDiaper with the disposable liner. It is win-win.

Check them out for yourself: http://www.gdiapers.com/

I never thought I could/would get so excited about diapers.

The Amazing Stomach

I have a question about stomachs. I totally don’t understand how they work. I am always baffled at my stomach’s ability to sort out the things that I eat.

Let me give you an example: Yesterday morning I had a smoothie; made from a banana, two handfuls of spinach and a handful of blueberries, a piece of toast and a cheese stick. Later yesterday morning I threw up only part of the cheese and the blueberries, or at least stuff that was the color of blueberries.

Hummm. How does that work? Is there a little man down there that says, “Stop, spinach-good, blueberries-bad!“ and then kicks out the blueberries? What did the blueberries do to deserve that? I thought they were a super food too? It all gets eaten at the same time, why doesn’t it come back up all mixed together?

Please note, it is not like I sit there and dissect the food coming back out my mouth, but when my head is 10 inches from the bottom of the trash can, where it all ends up, and I am patiently waiting for the next round, what else am I suppose to do?

This, by the way, is not the first time this has happened. I have eaten things only to throw up part of it later.

I just don’t get it…if anyone can explain this to me, please do.

Panic and a Suitcase

Currently, while writing this, I am at 30,000 feet headed across the country, Portland to Boston. The flight has been mostly smooth; the only excitement was my flair up of morning sickness that started right as I found my seat. We took off out of the blanket of fog that had descended on the city this morning, which is somehow more beautiful from above. We traveled over patchwork areas of all shades of brown and green, over mountains and lakes, and miles of puffy white clouds, all on the quest to find the other side of country.

What I really wanted to talk about for this trip is…the panic that comes with packing. Not only packing, but packing when you don’t know what is going to fit. I am at a stage where my old “pre-pregnancy” clothes fit, sort of. Certain areas of my body fit fine in my clothes and other do not. My available items to choose from has grown smaller and smaller and I don’t really want to buy a bigger size that I hopefully won’t wear after the birth. With this in mind, I have a wonderful friend who is letting me borrow some of her clothes, but I am not really at the point where I need them that big yet. So, in them I just look fat, fat in baggy ill-fitting clothes.

So, right now, what I am wondering is, when will I start to look pregnant and not just fat? I was not skinny pre-pregnancy, at least 15 pounds overweight and I was bumpy before. Now I am extra bumpy, things in my midsection are moving and shifting to new locations and the bumps are getting bigger in areas I had not expected.

All of this is wreaking havoc with my body image, which I didn’t like much to begin with and making me want to exercise a lot and try to lose body fat. I just don’t know if that is safe or how to do it. According to my BMI I should only gain about 20 pounds (I think) and I just not sure how one is suppose to go about doing that.

I am ready to have a belly that looks like a baby belly and not just one gained by years of cookie eating and TV watching.