Deserts are ugly

I just spent way too much time looking through every background available to me on this little blog, and guess what? There were no pictures of the desert. Well, I take that back. There may have been one with some sort of sandy oasis. Palm trees and clear water surrounded by sand. But, that's not what I mean when I say "the desert". This is what I mean....

Nice, right? As many of you know, that's where I spent a good part of last year. That is where my husband is now. It's generally a pretty safe deployment location, and we're blessed for that. I wrote many many emails home during the time I spent in the desert and I've had a lot of people tell me I should write a book. Or even just write more emails. Well....a book sounds really overwhelming! Emails seem sort of presumptuous on my part. I don't want to assume anybody cares what I'm doing or thinking...especially since I don't have any exciting tales from the desert anymore.

Some of you are probably wondering where the diapers part of this blog comes in, and it comes in here. I just recently separated from the Air Force because I'm planning on becoming a stay at home mom with our new son, Jackson! Now, there's a good chance that this new path of mine won't include satanic supervisors or painful and awkward massages, but I figure it's bound to have some interesting parts that I could write something about. So here it is. My blog.

I have to tell you that by reading the tales of my attempt at becoming a domestic icon (....choke, sputter) you will also be exposed every once in a while to updates from mom and my's new shop on Etsy, "ItsAJoi".

Call me old fashioned (or crazy) but I decided early on in my pregnancy that I wanted to cloth diaper. Maybe it's because I came from a very "career" type of job, but I feel like being a stay at home mom should be just as much of a job as any other. The only difference here is that I am my own boss. I can define my job responsibilities as widely or narrowly as I want! While I probably sound somewhat like a soldier marching off to battle, I have to say that I'm determined to hold myself accountable, stay structured, and be disciplined in my new job. Part of that includes saving our little family some $$. Hence the cloth diapering. If all it costs me is extra time and effort, I'm for it. So after all that I'll include that I'm a little nervous. haha. What if I give up and start using disposables, serving previously-frozen mush for dinner, and watch soap operas all day?! (seriously...I'm afraid. lol). Wow I went off the path there for a second...cloth diapering.

Mom and I started coming up with ways to make cloth diapering even MORE affordable, and that resulted in sweatshop-like production rates on hand sewn diapers (yea! I did that! I couldn't even sew a year ago. Granted I was listening to terrorists at the time. But still.) and all things diaper. Long story short, we've got a shop on Etsy that has some intricate crochet work, baby blankets, sewn cloth diapers, knit diaper covers and some random cloth diaper accessories. We'll see how that goes! (http://www.etsy.com/shop/itsajoi).



The end for now