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NO EXPECTATIONS: UPDATE, KINDA So I know I've been really bad about updating this, but life is way out of control right now and I'm desperately trying to play catch up. Once I have a clear head, I will update everyone on all of the craziness that has gone on in the past few weeks. NO EXPECTATIONS: JUNE 2009 My uterus, the contents of it and the potential contents of it are not up for discussion, comprende? Contrary to what you may think, it is not polite or even socially acceptable for you to ask a woman, pregnant or not, if she is going to get her tubes tied. NO EXPECTATIONS: BULLIED BY A SIX YEAR OLD This morning we had to go to the commissary. My husband came home last night after 2 weeks of training and there isn't nearly enough food in the house to sustain him for even 5 minutes. NO EXPECTATIONS: SEE YA! I'm fixin to be one of "those girls" and ditch all of my friends to go hang out with the dude I'm seeing. Lord willing, I will be picking my husband up from the airport sometime in the next 12 hours and from there, he and I are headed out on our first vacation alone togethersince December of
NO EXPECTATIONS: CURRENTLY LOVING (06-18-07) Lansinoh® Clean & Condition Cloths . These things ROCK! I love them. They work so well and are really soft and gentle on the baby's bum. Totally worth the money. NO EXPECTATIONS: FYI Anonymous said Hope you are feeling better and beginning to settle in. Hugs to all. September 12, 2008 at 1:55 PM NO EXPECTATIONS: JUMP! JUMP! W had taken a particular liking to jumping all over my furniture in the past months and it was driving me crazy because our floors are cement with a thin layer of "carpet" over them and I was scared he was going to bounce off the couch and onto his head. NO EXPECTATIONS: NOVEMBER 2010 This morning I went to the gym, came home, put the girls down for a nap, took a shower, got dressed, ate some lunch and then sat down to make my massive shopping list for Thanksgiving. NO EXPECTATIONS: I DON'T KNOW. He insisted. Crazy thing is, the kid actually looks good in pink. I had never seen him in pink until a few days ago, when he thought it was hilarious to squeeze into his sister's 6-9 month jacket and then proceeded to wear it all day. NO EXPECTATIONS: AUGUST 2011 *note* this post is not for my regular readers. Although, I know you REALLY want to talk about stinky diapers and how to clean them.Really, you do.
NO EXPECTATIONS: UPDATE, KINDA So I know I've been really bad about updating this, but life is way out of control right now and I'm desperately trying to play catch up. Once I have a clear head, I will update everyone on all of the craziness that has gone on in the past few weeks. NO EXPECTATIONS: JUNE 2009 My uterus, the contents of it and the potential contents of it are not up for discussion, comprende? Contrary to what you may think, it is not polite or even socially acceptable for you to ask a woman, pregnant or not, if she is going to get her tubes tied. NO EXPECTATIONS: BULLIED BY A SIX YEAR OLD This morning we had to go to the commissary. My husband came home last night after 2 weeks of training and there isn't nearly enough food in the house to sustain him for even 5 minutes. NO EXPECTATIONS: SEE YA! I'm fixin to be one of "those girls" and ditch all of my friends to go hang out with the dude I'm seeing. Lord willing, I will be picking my husband up from the airport sometime in the next 12 hours and from there, he and I are headed out on our first vacation alone togethersince December of
NO EXPECTATIONS: CURRENTLY LOVING (06-18-07) Lansinoh® Clean & Condition Cloths . These things ROCK! I love them. They work so well and are really soft and gentle on the baby's bum. Totally worth the money. NO EXPECTATIONS: HOME SWEET HOME We are home from the hospital! He's still not eating and drinking like he should be but he's doing better. We met with his "team" this morning to figure out what our plan of attack was going to be. NO EXPECTATIONS: CUTEST THINGS EVER cutest things ever. It is no secret that it is cold here. Fall lasted all of 3 weeks and then winter hit with a vengence. While it hasn't exactly snowed, except for a few 20 minute stints of freezing rain, it is still cold. Really cold. Like 27 degrees cold. The kids aren't so much fans of the cold, nor are they fans of clothes so this poses a NO EXPECTATIONS: SERIOUSLY HATES HIS LIFE. Anonymous said Girl - I know you are so tired. When we didn't have an email from you this morning I had to chase down your blog. I hope you're on your way home now - NO EXPECTATIONS: IT'S FINALLY HAPPENING And, I'm sad. My bald headed baby boy is getting hair. Enough hair, in fact, to have some stick straight up from the static when we were jum NO EXPECTATIONS: SO MUCH TO DO... For the next few days, I won't be online much. I have so much to do, it's not even funny. This house is too much for me. Even if I spend 4 hours cleaning it one NO EXPECTATIONS: KINDRED SPIRITS Anonymous said Just TOO good! This belongs in some marketing materials for the showgotta love it. So funny and a great way to log off my computer for the day! NO EXPECTATIONS: HOW I FOLD A FITTED SHEET This topic has come up in a lot conversations, so I figured it was time to prove, once and for all, that I can fold a fitted sheet. Why my friends don't believe me when I tell them I NO EXPECTATIONS: MR. HABLA I'm getting some feedback that the giraffe is missed. I love that giraffe, as does W. So much so that he too asks for him whenever I am sitting at the computer. NO EXPECTATIONS: PLAYAHS Today I packed the beasts up and headed to town to run some errands. Probably not the best of ideas considering that one has a fever that won't quit and the other is cutting six teeth right now, but I put on my big girl panties and went anyway. NO EXPECTATIONS: SEE YA! I'm fixin to be one of "those girls" and ditch all of my friends to go hang out with the dude I'm seeing. Lord willing, I will be picking my husband up from the airport sometime in the next 12 hours and from there, he and I are headed out on our first vacation alone togethersince December of
NO EXPECTATIONS: OMG! LIKE, TOTALLY! Today I had a wicked blond moment. My cousin and I were driving back from IKEA and I had the TomTom plugged in to tell me where to go, just in case I suddenly became an idiot and forgot. NO EXPECTATIONS: MOMENT OF SILENCE Anonymous said Your personal "moment of silence" is being multiplied many times over as we now remember these good people and pray for their familiesand for you and M. in gratitude for your courage, too. NO EXPECTATIONS: PIMP MY RIDE, MUCH? Today I had to take CB to get x-rays done on her hips. Since she isn't mobile and often looks like a frog, they want to be sure her hip joints are in the sockets. NO EXPECTATIONS: SO MUCH TO DO... For the next few days, I won't be online much. I have so much to do, it's not even funny. This house is too much for me. Even if I spend 4 hours cleaning it one NO EXPECTATIONS: I DON'T KNOW. He insisted. Crazy thing is, the kid actually looks good in pink. I had never seen him in pink until a few days ago, when he thought it was hilarious to squeeze into his sister's 6-9 month jacket and then proceeded to wear it all day. NO EXPECTATIONS: HE HATES HIS LIFE They haven't taken my wifi from me, thank goodness. It's been a Godsend to be able to download Dora and Super Why when there's absolutely nothing on for W to watch. NO EXPECTATIONS: FYI Anonymous said Hope you are feeling better and beginning to settle in. Hugs to all. September 12, 2008 at 1:55 PM NO EXPECTATIONS: WHO NEEDS SATURDAY MORNING CARTOONS... Anonymous said Too much fun! And the habla boots are great. Thanks for the smiles. November 5, 2007 at 10:36 AM NO EXPECTATIONS: BULLIED BY A SIX YEAR OLD This morning we had to go to the commissary. My husband came home last night after 2 weeks of training and there isn't nearly enough food in the house to sustain him for even 5 minutes. NO EXPECTATIONS: CURRENTLY LOVING (06-18-07) Lansinoh® Clean & Condition Cloths . These things ROCK! I love them. They work so well and are really soft and gentle on the baby's bum. Totally worth the money. NO EXPECTATIONS: OMG! LIKE, TOTALLY! Today I had a wicked blond moment. My cousin and I were driving back from IKEA and I had the TomTom plugged in to tell me where to go, just in case I suddenly became an idiot and forgot. NO EXPECTATIONS: MOMENT OF SILENCE Anonymous said Your personal "moment of silence" is being multiplied many times over as we now remember these good people and pray for their familiesand for you and M. in gratitude for your courage, too. NO EXPECTATIONS: PIMP MY RIDE, MUCH? Today I had to take CB to get x-rays done on her hips. Since she isn't mobile and often looks like a frog, they want to be sure her hip joints are in the sockets. NO EXPECTATIONS: SO MUCH TO DO... For the next few days, I won't be online much. I have so much to do, it's not even funny. This house is too much for me. Even if I spend 4 hours cleaning it one NO EXPECTATIONS: I DON'T KNOW. He insisted. Crazy thing is, the kid actually looks good in pink. I had never seen him in pink until a few days ago, when he thought it was hilarious to squeeze into his sister's 6-9 month jacket and then proceeded to wear it all day. NO EXPECTATIONS: HE HATES HIS LIFE They haven't taken my wifi from me, thank goodness. It's been a Godsend to be able to download Dora and Super Why when there's absolutely nothing on for W to watch. NO EXPECTATIONS: FYI Anonymous said Hope you are feeling better and beginning to settle in. Hugs to all. September 12, 2008 at 1:55 PM NO EXPECTATIONS: WHO NEEDS SATURDAY MORNING CARTOONS... Anonymous said Too much fun! And the habla boots are great. Thanks for the smiles. November 5, 2007 at 10:36 AM NO EXPECTATIONS: BULLIED BY A SIX YEAR OLD This morning we had to go to the commissary. My husband came home last night after 2 weeks of training and there isn't nearly enough food in the house to sustain him for even 5 minutes. NO EXPECTATIONS: CURRENTLY LOVING (06-18-07) Lansinoh® Clean & Condition Cloths . These things ROCK! I love them. They work so well and are really soft and gentle on the baby's bum. Totally worth the money. NO EXPECTATIONS: BACK, KINDA We're back and trying desperately to get back to "normal". M is back "home" after goodness knows how many hours of flying and layovers. W is just starting to realize he's gone, although if you ask him where his daddy is, he will tell you he's "on a plane going to rack." NO EXPECTATIONS: THE SANDS OF TIME Four years ago today, I was in a pizza parlor/ pub in Alexandria, Va, having my first drink in a bar. It wasn't by choice. My friends were ordering me shots and drinks for NO EXPECTATIONS: I DON'T KNOW. He insisted. Crazy thing is, the kid actually looks good in pink. I had never seen him in pink until a few days ago, when he thought it was hilarious to squeeze into his sister's 6-9 month jacket and then proceeded to wear it all day. NO EXPECTATIONS: UPDATE, KINDA So I know I've been really bad about updating this, but life is way out of control right now and I'm desperately trying to play catch up. Once I have a clear head, I will update everyone on all of the craziness that has gone on in the past few weeks. NO EXPECTATIONS: WORD, SAY WORD TO THE FATHER I don't talk about my husband much, and that really is too bad because he is pretty cool. Although, if I did talk about half the stuff I wanted to talk about, I'd have to kill you. NO EXPECTATIONS: GOOGLE IS A HYPOCHONDRIAC I want to thank everyone for all of the birthday wishes and thoughts sent to me over the past few days and I want to apologize for being such a slacker and not responding to them! NO EXPECTATIONS: FYI Anonymous said Hope you are feeling better and beginning to settle in. Hugs to all. September 12, 2008 at 1:55 PM NO EXPECTATIONS: HE HATES HIS LIFE They haven't taken my wifi from me, thank goodness. It's been a Godsend to be able to download Dora and Super Why when there's absolutely nothing on for W to watch. NO EXPECTATIONS: BULLIED BY A SIX YEAR OLD This morning we had to go to the commissary. My husband came home last night after 2 weeks of training and there isn't nearly enough food in the house to sustain him for even 5 minutes. NO EXPECTATIONS: SERIOUSLY HATES HIS LIFE. Anonymous said Girl - I know you are so tired. When we didn't have an email from you this morning I had to chase down your blog. I hope you're on your way home now - NO EXPECTATIONS: OMG! LIKE, TOTALLY! Today I had a wicked blond moment. My cousin and I were driving back from IKEA and I had the TomTom plugged in to tell me where to go, just in case I suddenly became an idiot and forgot. NO EXPECTATIONS: MOMENT OF SILENCE Anonymous said Your personal "moment of silence" is being multiplied many times over as we now remember these good people and pray for their familiesand for you and M. in gratitude for your courage, too. NO EXPECTATIONS: SO MUCH TO DO... For the next few days, I won't be online much. I have so much to do, it's not even funny. This house is too much for me. Even if I spend 4 hours cleaning it one NO EXPECTATIONS: PIMP MY RIDE, MUCH? Today I had to take CB to get x-rays done on her hips. Since she isn't mobile and often looks like a frog, they want to be sure her hip joints are in the sockets. NO EXPECTATIONS: I DON'T KNOW. He insisted. Crazy thing is, the kid actually looks good in pink. I had never seen him in pink until a few days ago, when he thought it was hilarious to squeeze into his sister's 6-9 month jacket and then proceeded to wear it all day. NO EXPECTATIONS: HE HATES HIS LIFE They haven't taken my wifi from me, thank goodness. It's been a Godsend to be able to download Dora and Super Why when there's absolutely nothing on for W to watch. NO EXPECTATIONS: FYI Anonymous said Hope you are feeling better and beginning to settle in. Hugs to all. September 12, 2008 at 1:55 PM NO EXPECTATIONS: WHO NEEDS SATURDAY MORNING CARTOONS... Anonymous said Too much fun! And the habla boots are great. Thanks for the smiles. November 5, 2007 at 10:36 AM NO EXPECTATIONS: BULLIED BY A SIX YEAR OLD This morning we had to go to the commissary. My husband came home last night after 2 weeks of training and there isn't nearly enough food in the house to sustain him for even 5 minutes. NO EXPECTATIONS: CURRENTLY LOVING (06-18-07) Lansinoh® Clean & Condition Cloths . These things ROCK! I love them. They work so well and are really soft and gentle on the baby's bum. Totally worth the money. NO EXPECTATIONS: OMG! LIKE, TOTALLY! Today I had a wicked blond moment. My cousin and I were driving back from IKEA and I had the TomTom plugged in to tell me where to go, just in case I suddenly became an idiot and forgot. NO EXPECTATIONS: MOMENT OF SILENCE Anonymous said Your personal "moment of silence" is being multiplied many times over as we now remember these good people and pray for their familiesand for you and M. in gratitude for your courage, too. NO EXPECTATIONS: SO MUCH TO DO... For the next few days, I won't be online much. I have so much to do, it's not even funny. This house is too much for me. Even if I spend 4 hours cleaning it one NO EXPECTATIONS: PIMP MY RIDE, MUCH? Today I had to take CB to get x-rays done on her hips. Since she isn't mobile and often looks like a frog, they want to be sure her hip joints are in the sockets. NO EXPECTATIONS: I DON'T KNOW. He insisted. Crazy thing is, the kid actually looks good in pink. I had never seen him in pink until a few days ago, when he thought it was hilarious to squeeze into his sister's 6-9 month jacket and then proceeded to wear it all day. NO EXPECTATIONS: HE HATES HIS LIFE They haven't taken my wifi from me, thank goodness. It's been a Godsend to be able to download Dora and Super Why when there's absolutely nothing on for W to watch. NO EXPECTATIONS: FYI Anonymous said Hope you are feeling better and beginning to settle in. Hugs to all. September 12, 2008 at 1:55 PM NO EXPECTATIONS: WHO NEEDS SATURDAY MORNING CARTOONS... Anonymous said Too much fun! And the habla boots are great. Thanks for the smiles. November 5, 2007 at 10:36 AM NO EXPECTATIONS: BULLIED BY A SIX YEAR OLD This morning we had to go to the commissary. My husband came home last night after 2 weeks of training and there isn't nearly enough food in the house to sustain him for even 5 minutes. NO EXPECTATIONS: CURRENTLY LOVING (06-18-07) Lansinoh® Clean & Condition Cloths . These things ROCK! I love them. They work so well and are really soft and gentle on the baby's bum. Totally worth the money. NO EXPECTATIONS: 2009 Maybe? Could there be a light at the end of this newborn twins tunnel? The past 15 weeks have been, well, excruciating, but I feel like we are figuring everything out and that some kind of normalcy may be inour future.
NO EXPECTATIONS: AUGUST 2009 **Disclaimer-- this is long, and contains some stuff that could be considered to be gross by some. So if you get queasy when hearing about birth or internal body parts, or you could never look me in the eye again after hearing about the workings of my internal body NO EXPECTATIONS: FEBRUARY 2008 Joanna I think the way people define themselves pretty comical but if I had to sum it up, I'd say I was an environmentally aware, semi crunchy, very attached, co sleeping, cloth diapering, baby wearing, former breastfeeding and retired exclusively pumping, 28 year old mother of 2 preschoolers and a set of twins, who also happens to be anArmy wife.
NO EXPECTATIONS: APRIL 2008 Joanna I think the way people define themselves pretty comical but if I had to sum it up, I'd say I was an environmentally aware, semi crunchy, very attached, co sleeping, cloth diapering, baby wearing, former breastfeeding and retired exclusively pumping, 28 year old mother of 2 preschoolers and a set of twins, who also happens to be anArmy wife.
NO EXPECTATIONS: HOME SWEET HOME We are home from the hospital! He's still not eating and drinking like he should be but he's doing better. We met with his "team" this morning to figure out what our plan of attack was going to be. NO EXPECTATIONS: GOOGLE IS A HYPOCHONDRIAC I want to thank everyone for all of the birthday wishes and thoughts sent to me over the past few days and I want to apologize for being such a slacker and not responding to them! NO EXPECTATIONS: STILL HERE... We're still here, I promise. Just super busy and the kids have been sick again. I've been uber domesticated these days and it's cutting into my online time, not to mention my projects are draining what little brain capacity for thinking I have left right out of me so I am unable to come up with anything worthy of writing about. NO EXPECTATIONS: LONG STORY, PART 1 I guess you could say that labor really started about 3 weeks before the girls were born. I had an appointment and asked the doctor to check to see if I had dilated at all because I felt different. NO EXPECTATIONS: SARCASM 101 There are a lot of questions I'm asked on a regular basis that are driving me nuts. I know for the most part people are just trying to make conversation, but when you are asked the same thing half a million times, it gets old really quick. NO EXPECTATIONS: BOO Today was one of those days that you don't really realize how it passed. Somewhere around 5 pm, I realized it was already 5 and I had no idea what, exactly, I had done all day. NO EXPECTATIONS: HOW I FOLD A FITTED SHEET This topic has come up in a lot conversations, so I figured it was time to prove, once and for all, that I can fold a fitted sheet. Why my friends don't believe me when I tell them I NO EXPECTATIONS: UMMMMM Today I picked W and CB up from school and gave them their healthy, homemade, high fructose corn syrup and preservative free lunches to eat in the car on the way home. NO EXPECTATIONS: MORON So a few days ago I was Christmas shopping (blah) and I encountered a first rate moron. This chick was a sales person at one of those stores that encourages their employees to accost you as soon as you walk in the door and continue to follow you around asking you if you need anything? are you finding everything ok? can I help you find something? are you sure you don't need anything? are you NO EXPECTATIONS: JUNK MAIL When I moved to Germany, I had no idea I would be moving to the Missouri of Germany. The weather here is ridiculous and out of control. Within a few hours, we can go from sunny and warm to thunderstorms with a 20 degree temperature drop. NO EXPECTATIONS: HOME SWEET HOME We are home from the hospital! He's still not eating and drinking like he should be but he's doing better. We met with his "team" this morning to figure out what our plan of attack was going to be. NO EXPECTATIONS: GOOGLE IS A HYPOCHONDRIAC I want to thank everyone for all of the birthday wishes and thoughts sent to me over the past few days and I want to apologize for being such a slacker and not responding to them! NO EXPECTATIONS: STILL HERE... We're still here, I promise. Just super busy and the kids have been sick again. I've been uber domesticated these days and it's cutting into my online time, not to mention my projects are draining what little brain capacity for thinking I have left right out of me so I am unable to come up with anything worthy of writing about. NO EXPECTATIONS: LONG STORY, PART 1 I guess you could say that labor really started about 3 weeks before the girls were born. I had an appointment and asked the doctor to check to see if I had dilated at all because I felt different. NO EXPECTATIONS: SARCASM 101 There are a lot of questions I'm asked on a regular basis that are driving me nuts. I know for the most part people are just trying to make conversation, but when you are asked the same thing half a million times, it gets old really quick. NO EXPECTATIONS: BOO Today was one of those days that you don't really realize how it passed. Somewhere around 5 pm, I realized it was already 5 and I had no idea what, exactly, I had done all day. NO EXPECTATIONS: HOW I FOLD A FITTED SHEET This topic has come up in a lot conversations, so I figured it was time to prove, once and for all, that I can fold a fitted sheet. Why my friends don't believe me when I tell them I NO EXPECTATIONS: UMMMMM Today I picked W and CB up from school and gave them their healthy, homemade, high fructose corn syrup and preservative free lunches to eat in the car on the way home. NO EXPECTATIONS: MORON So a few days ago I was Christmas shopping (blah) and I encountered a first rate moron. This chick was a sales person at one of those stores that encourages their employees to accost you as soon as you walk in the door and continue to follow you around asking you if you need anything? are you finding everything ok? can I help you find something? are you sure you don't need anything? are you NO EXPECTATIONS: JUNK MAIL When I moved to Germany, I had no idea I would be moving to the Missouri of Germany. The weather here is ridiculous and out of control. Within a few hours, we can go from sunny and warm to thunderstorms with a 20 degree temperature drop. NO EXPECTATIONS: HAVE AMMONIA IN YOUR BAMBOO CLOTH DIAPERS Joanna I think the way people define themselves pretty comical but if I had to sum it up, I'd say I was an environmentally aware, semi crunchy, very attached, co sleeping, cloth diapering, baby wearing, former breastfeeding and retired exclusively pumping, 28 year old mother of 2 preschoolers and a set of twins, who also happens to be anArmy wife.
NO EXPECTATIONS: VOCABU-WA HUH?? Joanna I think the way people define themselves pretty comical but if I had to sum it up, I'd say I was an environmentally aware, semi crunchy, very attached, co sleeping, cloth diapering, baby wearing, former breastfeeding and retired exclusively pumping, 28 year old mother of 2 preschoolers and a set of twins, who also happens to be anArmy wife.
NO EXPECTATIONS: AUGUST 2009 **Disclaimer-- this is long, and contains some stuff that could be considered to be gross by some. So if you get queasy when hearing about birth or internal body parts, or you could never look me in the eye again after hearing about the workings of my internal body NO EXPECTATIONS: 2009 Maybe? Could there be a light at the end of this newborn twins tunnel? The past 15 weeks have been, well, excruciating, but I feel like we are figuring everything out and that some kind of normalcy may be inour future.
FRIDAY, AUGUST 5, 2011 DO YOUR BAMBOO DIAPERS SMELL LIKE DIRTY DISH WATER? READ THIS: *note* this post is not for my regular readers. Although, I know you REALLY want to talk about stinky diapers and how to clean them. Really, you do. Skip this post and I'll be back to the regular blahblah blah soon.
If your baby's diapers stink, like really smell dirty when they are wet, but there is no sign of poop, you probably have detergent and/or mineral build up in the diaper fibers. Too much build up can lead to your diapers repelling and well, stinking. Much like you do if you have ammonia build up,
you are going to need to strip your diapers. Stripping diapers is easy, but it can be a process. Here are some simple steps to strip detergent/ mineral build up from your diapers: * Take your clean diapers and put them in the washer or tub * Fill it with HOT water-- as hot as you can stand * Allow the diapers to soak for a couple of hours, adding more hot water through a tea kettle or pot of almost boiling water, to the tub, as the water in the tub cools. * Agitate the water every now and then, to allow the water to really penetrate the layers of bamboo * Drain the water and put the diapers in the washer (if they are inthe bathtub)
* Run a hot water wash without detergent You do not want to use detergent during this process because it will only add detergent to the build up, and be pretty much pointless. OR, you can run 3-4 hot water washes with extra rinses withoutdetergent.
At this point, it is helpful to use RLR.
RLR is a laundry additive that helps break down minerals and leaves your diapers nice and bright. And let's be honest, it has the most awesome packaging around. Truly. So to use the RLR, you are going to do a regular hot wash, with a little bit of detergent. Just sprinkle the RLR into the washer drum and start your wash cycle. After the wash cycle is done, run another few rinses, or if your diapers were pretty grungy, run a couple of hot washes without detergent. RLR breaks down all of the nasties, but if there are too many nasties in there, RLR will break them down and bring them to the surface of the fibers, but they will need a few more rinses/ washes to fully come out. Once your diapers are free of detergent/ mineral build up, it is very important to change your wash routine to keep build up from forming again. Like with ammonia, you can do one or a combination of thefollowing:
* change your detergent amount (you will most likely need to useless)
* get more water into your washer during the wash cycle * add another post-wash rinse You need to be sure you are using the right detergent for your water type. If you have hard water, Â you should use a detergent formulated for hard water and/ or add calgonto your
wash routine. If you have soft water, you are going to need to use a detergent that is formulated for soft water, so it is easily rinsed out. If you have regular old city water, then you can probably get away with using a cloth diaper safe detergent and playing with the amount you use, and the water levels in the wash cycles to find a good, stink free balance. I love using RLR about once a month just as maintenance and to help keep any build up at bay. If you have hard water, you can use it more often. Just be sure to do those extra washes/ rinses after you use the RLR, to wash away all the grossness. If you have any questions or need clarification on something, please let me know! I'm happy to help :) by Joanna at 10:26 AM0 comments
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HAVE AMMONIA IN YOUR BAMBOO CLOTH DIAPERS? READ THIS: *note* this post is not for my regular readers :) I know you guys are uber tired of me talking about bodily functions and internal organs and poop. So just skip on by this post, and I will get back to your regularly scheduled nonsense soon. This summer has seriously been ridonkulous in the worst way possible. Ammonia build up can be cause by a couple of things-- allowing urine to dry in the bamboo diapers, bacteria formed when urine and stool mix and too much detergent and/or minerals that build up in the diaperfibers.
Bamboo is a blessing and a curse because it is super absorbent and can work splendidly as an overnight diaper, but because it is so absorbent, it absorbs more than your typical cotton, fleece or microfiber diaper which can make it more difficult for your normal washer and wash routine to get all of that urine out. Allowing the urine, especially in an overnight diaper, to dry completely before wash day is a main factor in ammonia build up. So you might be wondering, "How will I know if I have ammonia build up?" Oh, you will know. It will start out innocently enough, with maybe a slight smell when you take the diaper off the baby in the morning, or maybe a red spot on their little bum. But soon it will turn into an eye blazing, nose burning, butt blistering problem if you don't take care of it. A slight ammonia smell in the diaper pail is normal. As long as the diaper isn't smelling like ammonia after the baby wets it, you are fine. If the diaper doesn't stink when your baby wets it, it means your washer and wash routine are doing a good job of washing out all of those ammonia crystals, and you really don't need to worry about changing anything. But if the diaper is smelling after the baby has wet it, it is going to be a problem. If you have ammonia build up, you need to get rid of it. It isn't good for your baby's butt and honestly, it can make cloth diapering a nightmare. First, you will need to strip the diaper. To do that, you can follow the steps below: (you can do this in your washing machine, if you have a top loader, orin your bath tub)
* Take your clean diapers and put them in the washer or tub * Fill it with HOT water-- as hot as you can stand * Allow the diapers to soak for a couple of hours, adding more hot water through a tea kettle or pot of almost boiling water, to the tub, as the water in the tub cools. * Agitate the water every now and then, to allow the water to really penetrate the layers of bamboo I like to use Bac-Out during this process. If you have Bac-Out, you can add about 1/4 to 1/2 cup of it to the water as you are soaking them. Other people prefer to do a detergent soak with Rockin Greenor Funk Rock
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I prefer not to do this, as I fear a detergent soak will only lead to detergent build up. People have mentioned using Dawn dish soap to strip your diapers, only do this if your diapers are repelling because of a barrier cream. If you do decide to use a detergent, funk rock, or dawn to strip the diapers, you will need to really rinse them out to get all of the detergent and soap out of there. After you have soaked your diapers in the hot water, rinse them and transfer them to the washer or drain the washer and do a rinse/ spin cycle and then start a HOT wash with your regular detergent. Wash the diapers, rinse them, and then wash them on hot again, this timewithout detergent.
By this time, your diapers should be good and stripped. If they smell like ammonia the next time the baby wets them, repeat the process but this time use either the bac-out (if you didn't use it before) or do adetergent soak.
Once you do not have an ammonia smell when your baby wets the diaper, it is time to get proactive to keep that ammonia away. I recommend using a wet pail to combat ammonia (I'll explain that in a minute) but some people are not comfortable using a wet pail, and that is totally fine. You can help keep ammonia at bay by doing one, or a combinationof the following:
* add another rinse to your pre-wash rinse * add funk rock to your pre-wash rinse * change your detergent amount (you might have to add more, sometimes you need to use less) * get more water into your washer during the wash cycle * add another post wash rinse * add bac-out to your pre-wash rinse * do a 30 minute bac-out soak before after your pre-wash rinse and before your wash cycle * change your detergent. If your detergent isn't getting the diapers clean enough, it isn't going to be able to wash out all of that ammonia and you are going to get build up. I believe it is really important to rinse at least the overnight diapers, after you take them off the baby. This will wash out most of that urine and help prevent those ammonia crystals from forming. To do this, you can rinse them in a bathtub or with the diaper sprayer. If you chose to rinse them, you can either wring them out and put them in your dry pail, or put them in a wet pail. If you chose to wring them out and put them in a dry pail, you need to be diligent about washing your diapers within a day or so, so bacteria and/or icky mildew doesn't form. If you chose to use a wet pail, this is one of the waysyou can do it:
* get a bucket or a small (5-10 gallon) garbage can * fill it with cool water, about half way * put 1/8-1/4 cup bac-out in the water, as the bucket is filling(optional)
* rinse the diaper and doublers and place them into the pail On wash day, you can either take the pail to the washing machine and dump the entire contents of the pail into the washer, or you can pull the diapers out and place them in the washer, and then dump the leftover water into the toilet or tub. If you don't have a lot of diapers in the pail, it is easy to dump the water, and then put the diapers into the washer. Then proceed with your normal wash routine. Because our laundry room is really a laundry closet,
and I wash a TON of diapers and our wet pail weighs approximately eleventy billion pounds, I keep the pail next to the toilet/ bath tub and then drag the pail to the washer and pull the diapers out, then dump the leftover water into the toilet. I wear gloves while doing this, and while rinsing because I'm not looking for a spot on Dirty Jobs... although... it wouldn't be so bad if Mike Rowe decided to comefor a visit...
If your changing area and place to rinse the diapers are far from the laundry area, and you prefer to keep the wet pail by the laundry area, you can rinse the diapers and then transport them to the laundry area using a small bucket, bowl or pail. If you do not want to rinse your diapers and put them into a dry pail or wet pail, then you can spray them with bac-out after you take them off the baby and place them in the dry pail. The key to preventing ammonia is going to make sure your wash routine is flawless, but in the days of high efficiency/ low water washers, this is not always possible so other means of prevention are necessary. Please let me know if you have questions or if something isn't clear. I am always happy to help and want to make sure that your cloth diapering experience is a good, frustrating free one. by Joanna at 9:53 AM0 comments
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SATURDAY, JUNE 11, 2011DESPERATE MEASURES
I've made it a rule to never complain about my kids, and I try really hard to stick to that. Of course they aren't perfect, but most of the time it isn't their fault when they are driving me crazy and I don't think it is fair to them to announce to the world that they might be making me a little bit batty at the moment. Kids are kids. They need things. They want things. They don't have the capacity to be patient for things. And when you have 4 kids, who all need and want and aren't patient for things, all at the same time, you can get a little batty a little faster than you would like. M has been gone for 5 weeks. 5 weeks of no contact, except for a short letter here and there. And it isn't like he's sending me a postcard with a picture of some gorgeous beach on it. He sends letters saying someone stole his laundry detergent and he needs me to send him some, and hand drawn pictures of him jumping out of planes. And believe me, I am thankful that I do get to hear from him at all, even if it is about how he probably got some swamp flu from trekking in the mud all day, but I want to *talk* to him. So it has just been me, and the kids, for 35 straight days now. No reinforcements, no backup, no breaks. And they are generally good kids, except like I said, they just need and want a lot of things, and they need them and want them RIGHT NOW. I'm tired... so, so tired. I just want... sleep. That's it. I'll take 7 hours of uninterrupted sleep. Maybe even 6. Last night's plan of paying the big kids 2 coins each if they slept until 7 this morning totally backfired, and both were in my bed at 6:13 this morning, asking if they could have their coins. (Yes, coins. Not nickles or dimes, or even quarters. They just want coins. Any kind of coins. Just to put in their piggy banks. Thank goodness for all of those random Euro coins I keep finding) So tonight, I've gone rogue. The battle is on. I need my sleep and I am going to get it. A and MJs room has been stocked with a cup of water and a snack bag for each girl, along with a stack of books and some toys they haven't seen in awhile. W and CB's room is stocked with juice and dry cereal, bananas for each of them and a computer with a dvd. This is the one time I am very glad W can read, because when he wakes up he will see the note I have left for him: "DO NOT WAKE YOUR MOTHER UP, UNLESS YOU ARE BLEEDING OR THE HOUSE IS ON FIRE. And here's a dvd for you and CB to watch. REMEMBER,DO NOT WAKE YOUR MOTHER UP AND NO FIGHTING. Loveand kisses, Mommy".
7 hours kids. Just, 7 hours... that's all I want... desperate times are calling for desperate measures. by Joanna at 10:29 PM6 comments
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THURSDAY, JUNE 2, 2011THIRD AND FOURTH
Before W was born, I was the perfect parent. He wasn't going to be allowed to watch TV or play video games, the computer was going to be off limits and we were going to only have educational toys. He was only going to eat organic and healthy... Fast forward 18 months and he's playing with my cell phone while eating marshmallows while watching Baby Einstein. So I wasn't mother of the year then, for sure. But I was pretty strict about only eating in the high chair and sitting properly on the furniture, no jumping on the bed and only going outside with shoes and shirts on. Then CB came along and I got a little more lax. We didn't always eat at the table. You could often find her sitting on the back of the couch, eating her snacks. They didn't always wear shoes outside and when it was hot they were shirtless most of the time. They got away with making more of a mess than I would have like and things definitely weren't as controlled as I preferred, but oh well. Then A and MJ came along. These girls, my third and fourth, get away with so much it isn't even funny. I kind of feel like as long as they aren't bleeding or their arm is bent the wrong way and they aren't in danger, it will be ok. There is so much that just doesn't matter to meanymore.
Sitting on the table? Fine, as long as they are quiet. Eating in the living room? Awesome, just put a blanket down and we will call it a picnic. Wearing 2 different shoes? Perfect, at least they have them on. Cereal for dinner? At least they are eating and I don't have to do dishes. Jumping on the bed? Exercise. It will wear them out before bed. Spill your plate? Fine, I'll clean it up later. No need to freak out or get upset. Things happen. A already knows how the Wii remote works, and mimics the motions as W plays Mario Kart. MJ and CB really enjoy playing Dora games on the computer. Hand eye coordination, right? (Justification is my favorite thing in the entire world) Either I have become incredibly apathetic or I've relaxed a lot. I don't know. And all of the above really makes me sound like a horrible mother, but I don't think I am a horrible mother. They aren't out of control, they are just... curious... and there are 2 of them. And one of me. They are good kids. They listen, they play nice, the care for each other and their brother and sister, so I think we're doing ok... but my goodness they have changed me. And I am so glad they have. by Joanna at 10:48 AM3 comments
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FRIDAY, MAY 13, 2011 AND THE WINNER IS... So blogger apparently got hungry and decided to eat the comments that were submitted yesterday. I tried to republish them from my email but only get an error message saying "This comment no longer exists" or something similar. I guess it is trying to hide the evidence of its binge. Thankfully I had saved all of the comment notifications so I published them under my name, in the order they were received.And the winner is:
Marie! Congrats girl :) I will send the planner to your inbox in a couple of minutes. Thanks for playing, everyone. by Joanna at 4:12 PM0 comments
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