mc’s clamor

I am in the middle of the beginning stages of cloth diapering. We started using gdiapers about a month ago and I really like them. As a family we’re trying to take better care of the earth and be more aware of where we purchase what we consume, what we’re consuming, and how we’re getting rid of the trash our consuming makes. I can’t help but imagine our local trash collector has a whole landfill labeled “Clark Boy’s Dumping Ground” (literally). I smile when I change little Brenny’s diaper and know that instead of heading to the “dumping ground” to decompose for years and years I can flush the inserts or trash them because they decompose in less than a year around 50-200 days. The inserts work great for most things but our budget. They are more expensive so I’m going to supplement with clothdiapers. They fit into the gdiaper cover beautifully and in the long run will save us money. My mother used cloth on all of us and I feel a kind of deeper kinship with her now.

I’m feeling rather pioneerish about this whole journey. I feel grateful that I do not have to ride in a covered wagon during this cloth diapering adventure. I can’t get Brennan to hold still to change his diaper as it is. I can’t imagine in the bumpy wagon! Much less not being able to rinse them off right away and I’m sure the smell . . . o.k. I don’t think I need to elaborate. So I’ll just cloth diaper here in my nice air-conditioned home with a toilet to dump . . . uh . . . stuff in and a sink to rinse off in and a tub to dunk the human eliminator in if anything should escape down a leg.