A Wake-Up Story, by Healthy Child Healthy World

A Wake-Up Story, by Healthy Child Healthy World

We try to do our best with buying good products for our family and serving good food. I think it is hard to find good products because the stores don't always sell them. I guess we need to do more internet shopping. You only have control in your home, so why not make it the safest for your child? I wish we could go back to 50 years ago, when things were more simple.

The Great Cloth Diaper Change at Well Rounded Momma

On Saturday Deegan and I attended The Great Cloth Diaper Change at Well Rounded Momma. There were 26 moms here in Vegas, all meeting together to simultaneously change their babies into cloth diapers to set the world record. It was happening all over the world. It was great to be apart of and when Deegan gets older, I will be able to tell him that he was part of a world record! We all had to change our babies diapers right at 9am. It only took a few seconds but it was fun! The event also helped bring awareness of cloth diapers and how easy they are and how much they have changed in the past 10 years.  They estimated that a total of 10,000 babies were changed on this day at the same time!

All the cloth diaper mommies and babies at Well Rounded Momma. I am in the back on the left. Deegan's head is blocked by the lady in the red. 

They had a raffle at the event and I won a free diaper cover, spray, wash clothes and snappy. I was pretty happy for winning, since it only cost me $5 to be in the raffle!

My goodies from the raffle!

I like free stuff! Saving with coupons!

I got all this stuff for $12.87 out of pocket (not including tax)! I also got $3 Extra Care Bucks at CVS, so really I got all this for just under $10! Ooooh and one thing is missing from the picture. I bought a Covergirl lip gloss that is now in my purse! Do you see what is on the bottom right? That is $3.80 worth of 4x6 prints (Deegan's easter cards). So I totally scored! I used this site to learn how to save a lot on half of the items. I just followed what she bought and what coupons she used and was able to get lots of good stuff!

I went to a coupon class last weekend and learned a lot of great stuff. They said it is best to subscribe to 4 newspapers every Sunday morning. Get all 4 delivered to your home. But now that I am going back to work, not sure if I will have time. Still deciding if I want to pay the $99 subscription for the newspapers.

If you live in Vegas, make sure you check out the website My Vegas Mommy. Awesome website!

I'm a working mom

So I got the job! Only 2 more weeks of being a stay-at-home-mom :-( I am really sad. Now is the hard part, finding a daycare that I LOVE. Yes, LOVE with a capital L-O-V-E. I need to love the daycare we choose. If I am going to leave my son and go back to work, I need to be completely 100% happy with where he is going to be all day. We checked out 2 daycares today and didn't like either one. Daycare #1 had too many kids and not enough teachers and also the lady giving us a tour was not very informed. Daycare #2 was nice but I didn't like their food menu. They JUST started feeding the kids fresh fruits. Before everything was canned. And they feed the kids frozen bean and cheese burritos. So I have 3 more to checkout tomorrow.

The top 3 things that are important to me about a daycare-
- The child to teacher ratio, I would like for it to be at least 1:6 and no more then 12 kids in the class
- The food that they serve. I don't want all canned and processed food. I know that is going to be hard to find, but if I can find a daycare that serves just 15% organic, that is the daycare I will go to. That just shows me that they care about the food they are putting in the kids mouth!
- Caring and compassionate teachers. I want the Deegan's teacher to love her job!

One of the daycares that we checked out was a montessori school. I do like the teaching styles of montessori schools. They teach a lot of independence and self-teaching. I have heard about montessori before and was always interested in the teaching. I am going to check out another montessori school this week. I was surprised they weren't that much more expensive. Well all daycares are pretty much like a 2nd mortgage!!!

Tidbits

- Family coming in town! We have Kevin's brother and his family coming in town in 3 weeks! Then my mom in 5 weeks, then aunt Crissy in 8 weeks! Can't wait to see everyone!

- I have my 3rd job interview next week on Tuesday! Hopefully I find out if I get the job or not very soon! I feel like my life is on hold until I know what is going on.

- I just joined Pinterest! You can follow me here. It is very addicting. I was on it for a few hours last night. I loooooove this. I can never our favorite things to make for dinner.

- Love all these ideas for making use out of old items.

- I have been watching American Idol. Haley is my favorite. Do you have a favorite?

- We have 2 birthday parties this weekend. I was planning on making all the birthday gifts but I can't believe it is already Thursday night! Where did the week go?

- My birthday is next week on Saturday. I will be 29.

- Kevin and I have started walking every night after dinner. We have done it the past 3 nights. Hope we keep it up. I have been slowly cutting the junk food out of the house. He keeps asking where the chips are.

A few random pictures from the past few weeks.

Enjoying the warm weather

It has been a busy week! Kevin has been home since last week on Tuesday! No work. Hopefully they have a project starting soon! We have been babysitting Lilly. We watched her 3 days this week. It was nice to have Kevin home, because we can get out and do stuff. This morning we went to the park and Wednesday we went to Rock N Roll Kids.

The weather here in Vegas has been nice! Today it is suppose to be 90! The sun in the desert is so hot when the temperature is up. So we tried to get out early today and get some fun in! Earlier this week it was in the 80's, so we played in the backyard a lot. Kevin put out fake grass a few weeks ago and put up a fence about a month ago. The fence is to keep the dogs out of Deegan's play area. We also just bought an umbrella for the backyard. We got a playhouse and a slide at yard sales. We paid only $15 for the play house and $2 for the slide! Score!

Our little playground! We still want to paint the fence and get so more toys. It is yard sale season, so hopefully we will find some more toys. 

He loves to open and close the door. He also NEEDS a haircut!

Love his big, fluffy cloth diaper butt!

Washing the dishes! Good boy!

Love his funky little outfit! 

Deegan has been learning so much lately. We have this toy that you have to push, turn, twist, etc to have the 5 animals pop up. In the past week he has learned how to pop up 4 of the 5 animals. Here are some pictures of him playing with it. It is one of his favorite toys!

My job interview is on Monday! I am excited! I just looked through my portfolio and have some work to do this weekend. Also excited about having some friends and family visiting in the next few months. We have Heather and her husband coming next week, then our nieces and their parents coming the first weekend of May (we hope!!) and then Auntie Crissy and her boyfriend coming in June!