We have a WINNER!!

Congratulations : Stephanye Beling ! You have won a great sample pack of The Laundry Tarts, from Maple Bottoms Boutique!

For those wondering- here is what she submitted:

 
#1: What is the brand name of the All-in-One diapers that we carry? also go like their page and tell them we sent you [on fb]  Was already a fan but said hello from you
      Monkey Doodlez
#2: Name one of the new products coming in
       Rental Packages
#3: Out of the companies we carry, which are Canadian ?
       7
#4: How many brands do we carry?
       13
#5: What does TLT stand for? [also go like their page and tell them we sent you ]  Was already a fan but said hello from you   
      The Laundry Tarts

Please email us your shipping details and we'll get that out to you a.s.a.p.

Happy Halloween everyone and thanks for playing!! Stay tuned for our next giveaway when we hit 200 fans- you won't want to miss this one!

the never ending laundry saga

[Emily]

Do you ever feel like your laundry just..never ends?? I've got laundry from a family of 5, diapers, and now extra laundry from a 2.5 year old who is regressing in potty training, after being fully trained before Christmas. *sigh* It just never ends, as I sit here typing I'm surrounded by 5 piles of laundry [I fold in piles of owners] and I still have half a basket full sitting beside me. I have to wash diapers at some point...I should essentially put them in tonight before I go to bed because they take a while, on hot setting and with 'smart meters' it costs more to wash them during the day- uurg. This is a venting post, if you hadn't noticed already ;-) Who created this smart meter anyway?! People who work out of the home aren't affected, because well...they aren't home to do laundry anyway. But before the smart meters came into play, daytime was my prime time to get laundry done- because the kids were up and I could put the laundry away just as fast as I folded it. With the new smart meters, you can't use the dryer [ or heat ...I don't know?] until 9pm!! That means I either can only do laundry on weekends [it's cheap all weekend , no matter the time of day] or I have to wait until 9pm to get it done which means I'm not folding until 11pm , but I'd rather wait and fold next day but because of the amount of kids running around and "helping" I can't fold until they're in bed anyway. *big sigh*

Anyway.... do you ever wish you could get a little laundry fairy come in and magically all your laundry was done and put away without you even getting off the couch? If you have one ...please send them my way, I will be forever in debted to you !

why cloth diaper?

Have you ever found yourself wondering what the benefits of cloth diapering, vs. disposable? Well- the big no brainer...is cost. Cloth diapering may seem to be expensive, when you start looking at the diapers, the styles, the laundering, etc- but you make that initial investment on your diapers [about $200-$300 depending on what you're getting] and the diapers last for YEARS. So, your little one potty trains typically around 2.5yrs-3yrs but some are in diapers longer than that. Cloth diapered babies potty train sooner than disposable diapered babies simply because you can adjust the amount of padding [absorption] in your cloth diapers, so that they start to feel wet- instead of wicking away all that wetness. My daughter was completely trained a month after her 2nd birthday. My son, who was in disposables wasn't trained until after his 3rd birthday!

Secondly- if you have a little one with sensitive skin, or is prone to rashes- cloth diapers are fantastic as they allow their skin to breath [they're not wrapped in plastic..] A lot of kids have allergies to whatever chemicals are in disposable diapers [those beads that absorb their urine...that's scientifically made- do you know what it is? Because I sure don't] Cloth diapers also encourage you to change your baby's bum a little more often than a disposable- which also helps with rash prevention and healing.

thirdly- before I switched to cloth diapers [pockets] my little ones were soaking through everything, every single night. I put them in cloth- and they never leaked through again!! it was incredible. So I started saving on sheets, that extra laundry from having to wash sheets from nap time, bed time, and anytime in between where they were lying down in their diapers.

4- they're SO CUTE

5- They are so environmentally friendly as nothing has to be put in a dump , or composted for years before it gets passed back through the earth. Help your baby start their life off early, with a super tiny carbon footprint, just as their little tiny footprints truly are.

6- You can pass them on and keep on giving back to the environment!

7- the big one for me, was that I had two babies in diapers, and both in completely different sizes. [nb and size 3 at the time] so I bought one size pockets and used the exact same diapers on both babies.


Tell us your reasons for going cloth!! And if you are wondering whether you should or not- post some questions!

baking...at 3am

(Emily) So here I am, baking delicious ginger cookies [like the  Giant ones from  Starbucks...yummm] for Manning's birthday party / Christmas Party we're having tomorrow. I fell asleep with the kids tonight for a good 3hr nap, so I figure I'll finish the baking I need to do tonight, so that tomorrow I can focus on more important things- like savory recipes and getting my tables organized for when guests arrive. I'm starting to wonder if I really am insane with all that I am doing. [oh...and it's 4am over here] My throat is a bit sore though- so I was thinking I should get this all done now, before I feel like total garbage {which I'm really praying I don't!!!}

I will have to take some photos of all that I've baked to post here soon. I haven't uploaded pics in a while!

My little man is all grown up..... sorta

(Emily) big tears over here, my youngest little man hit the 1yr milestone today- and when I think back to where we were a year ago today, and what we've been through up to this day and it makes me proud to say- my little man was able to eat cake today.

Happy birthday 'Little Man'  xoxo

Cloth Trainers......

(Emily) So I'm thinking WAY ahead here...but I need to start looking into some cloth trainer diapers for my daughter, who just turned 2. She sometimes has interest in a potty but I'm not pushing anything yet. With my oldest, boy, I just put him in undies and away we went...but that turned into a little bit of a stressful situation for mummy because I was cleaning up a LOT of accidents..he would hide under tables, and hard to reach places, to do his business...not fun!

So food for thought- what kind of cloth trainers do you like and which should I try? Will start my seach soon....I'm loving etsy   and will probably search there first.