How much green snot can come out of such a tiny nose? Constant drip, drip, drip.

Julia now understands the words "Here, wipe your nose" and will take the offered tissue or washcloth and wipe it.

Unfortunately Miss Helpful then tries to wipe my nose for me, and while I AM getting snorky myself, I don't much fancy her snot being smeared around on my face.

Thanks, baby, but no thanks!

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Diapers. I don't know if you can find it, but Seventh Generation brand diapers run big. So perhaps a medium would do? Or a large?

I know that Huggies leg holes are bigger than Pampers by comparison too.

So maybe brand swithicng, but staying the 3's would help solve the problem til she's big enough for the 4's

Diaper sewing is fun but like with anything else... ti takes practice to turn out well. My first few were awful. LOL. :)

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Nikki -- it just takes some work. That's all. Hang in there and keep trying! Learning to demystify the kitchen will go a long way toward your health/fitness goals. :)

I was in your shoes in 1998 when I was trying to learn to streamline our food/grocery/budget thing. Coming out of a dorm into a flat, responsible for me and Paul food... yargh. We used to eat massive quantities of the same thing over and over until it was gone because I didn't know how to scale down to cook for two. I cooked for 6-8! LOL.

I was annoyed that nobody offered a class for adult home economics and I kicked myself for not ever taking it at least ONCE as a freshman in high school. Paul told me at his high school "Life Skills" was mandatory for a semester. I was envious.

When I consult my mom for advice, she looks at me like I'm cracky. "What do you MEAN you don't know how to manage it? " She forgets she's got many decades up on me so HER system is even more refined, more automatic, more ingrained than mine.

But yeah... put in the time, it gets easier, it takes less time to pull of with practice and then watch the food savings add up.Woo! :)

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I'm not so great. My chest is starting to hurt and I started to cough. Argh. :(