The Stratton's Have Gone Cloth!

With the changes we've made around here some might think we've jumped on the green band wagon. Truth is we're just trying to save money by finding ways to cut back that work for our family.



I have a friend who has started cloth diapering and she made it sound so simple that I thought maybe I should give it a try. After all, I don't mind washing out poop. In fact most of my employment has led to some poop washing here and there. So we looked into it and we found that there are a lot of new ideas out there that make it surprisingly convenient. And I didn't find the transition hard at all. We had a few overstuffed diapers and one day of leaky disasters, but aside from that we've gotten along pretty well.

Aside from saving us money, don't those little cloth diapered bums look so cute?



Can you see his little muffin top?



Along with cloth diapering we bought a clothes line. And I was told by Dendra that clothes lines and cloth diapers go well together because the sun will keep down the stains. So far so good. The clothes line has worked well for us, and I love having extra help with the stains on some of the other articles of clothing we own.

July 9 and 10: Yard Sale!

We finally held our Yard Sale, and it went GREAT! I was really surprised how well it went.

This was the set up on opening day. We made some sales on Friday, but Saturday was killer! There were crowds of people until about 1:00, and then a few stragglers after that. Everyone said they were happy to come to our sale because we had all the shade.



Look at my fancy clothes line- or clothes tree I guess. I've been wanting one so we bought it just in time to use as a display for the clothes we had for sale.



Look at those cuties! We had a couple offers for them. I told the people I might consider renting them out :) I couldn't wait to pull those fleece PJ's off of them. It was making me hot to look at them.



The boys crawled around and got into some sort of mess. Probably a puddle in our driveway. I pretty much planned on them getting messy during the sale anyway so it was no big deal. They made up for it by letting me take this way cute picture.



The sale went so well Craig wants to do another one. I was exhausted but I said we could as long as he was willing to wake up and do the work.