We went grocery shopping today, because we were in desperate need of food. The little store on our street that we use for necessities during the week was closed for some reason this week, so we have been out of bread for a while. Our bread doesn’t last long, since it’s all freshly baked in Amman, not stocked with preservatives like in the states. I guess that’s one thing we’ll miss :) Guess what we found at the grocery store?? Generic Cinnamon Toast Crunch and Captain Crunch w/berries! It sounds weird to be so excited about, but American cereal is one thing I’ve really missed while here. There are some things available, but who wants to buy Special K with berries for $7 a box? There is an Egyptian brand of cereal that we usually buy that is about $1.50 a box, but it’s not as good as American. I have bran flakes just about every morning (with a spoonful of sugar of course). This cereal we found was only about $3 a box, so not too bad at all.
Last night we treated ourselves to an expensive, but delicious dinner. We ate at a restaurant called Houston’s, which is similar to…Chili’s, I guess. Ooh, the nachos we ordered as an appetizer were sooo good. The meal, which would have been around $20 in the states, was more like $35 here, but we needed that extra boost to make it until we come home.
Ok, I have a dilemma that I would love opinions about. Ellie has been waking up dry during naptime for a couple weeks now, and the last 5 nights her diapers have been completely dry in the morning! I'm afraid to let her go without a diaper though, because if she did wet the bed, it would be a huge hassle to try to clean her foam mattress. Here are my options (that I see anyway):
- use a new diaper every day
- reuse the diapers if they are dry (I do reuse them after nap for that night). One idea that I saw recently was to put her in undies and then a diaper, that way the diaper is clean and I just wash the undies
- let her go without a diaper
Using a diaper a day isn't too expensive, but it seems senseless to throw away a dry diaper. What do you think we should do?
Friday, April 20, 2007
Opinions, please!
Posted by Kirsten at 12:55 PM
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The most awesome thing in my opinion would be to see if you could find rubber pants...that are usually worn over cloth diapers and put them on over her panties! (don't you have some of the thicker training panties)....what do you think of this one?
Mom
Well, I don't really have any advice because we haven't got that far yet. :) But, I don't see a problem with reusing a dry diaper. I did think it was funny what you said about the cereal, though. Our friends in China LOVED finding regular cereal. They actually bought a whole bunch of boxes for their anniversary gift to each other. They stayed home on their anniversary and ate cereal. :) For them, it was a treat! I thought that was funny! Me and Bryson are excited to see you guys!
I like your mom's rubber pants suggestion, haha. I actually really like the diaper-over-the-underwear idea - totally makes sense to me (although I don't have babies, so feel free to ignore my input;) I do have 4 nieces though!!)
Keeley:)
hi,
your idea of a diaper over underwear sounds logical to me. You dont want your bedclothes soaked because that is hard to get out of a mattress. I would change her panties in the morning, but I cant see any reason notto use the same backup diaper the next night. It would not be as likely as rubber pants to cause a rash because rubber does not breathe. Rubber and plastic are the same thing. I wish my panties were that small that I just had to rinse them out in the morning!!!
Grandma
I too agree w/ the diaper over panties idea. good luck!
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