Well, I have finally found the way to make Mamalode cool to my kids (funnily they have not until this point found me being terribly busy to be terribly cool)—Legos.
Now I just have to tell you what it is like at my house. There are Legos everywhere. My boys are 5 and 7 in chronological years, but are more like 12 and 14 in “Lego years” meaning that most of what they are able to put together is beyond my ability. Anything with 700+ parts and 48 pages of instructions falls into the “you can do that with daddy” category at my place. Anyhow, Legos make the world go round, and play a huge roll in the production of Mamalode as those little plastic wonders buy me HOURS of random emails and work-stuff.
But here is the great part—Laura (aka: momgeek) won my kids some Legos with an affiliate ad we were running. I know, how brilliant is she? But there is MORE. After I sent Lego a little “thanks for making my job cool to my kids” note, Frank from Lego sent my kids a new product to check out– seriously my sons’ dream job. They got this:
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The character Bettina on Absolutely Fabulous once commented on eco-parenting, “We tried to be green, but it’s just not humanly possible.” While I love cloth diapers, eco-parenting on the road tested my mettle.
Pocket diapers such as Fuzzi Bunz (which are available at Nature Boy in Missoula) are genius. However, cloth diapering while traveling makes even these stylish and simple diapers difficult. In my son’s first year of life, we did three two-week trips. On trip one—a visit with grandparents—we compromised and used primarily disposables but cloth at night. Trip three included a stay in the jungle of Dominica, where the nearest place to buy disposables was 45 minutes away and open limited hours. So using cloth there was a no-brainer.
Trip two was the interesting one. My son Ivan and I tagged along with my husband as he went to New York City on business, then we headed up to Boston to visit my parents. On this trip, I insisted on reserving disposables just for plane and train rides.
My husband’s company puts people up only in ultra-swank hotels. After a few days there he called it the stiletto heel of hotels—looks gorgeous but is utterly dysfunctional—a great place for metrosexuals to have an affair, but good for little else. In our room we had a loofa sponge and candles, but no coffee maker or ice bucket. Most importantly, there were no coin-op laundry machines on the property.
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