{"id":2900,"date":"2011-10-01T09:50:29","date_gmt":"2011-10-01T16:50:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/?p=2900"},"modified":"2011-10-01T09:50:29","modified_gmt":"2011-10-01T16:50:29","slug":"assets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/2900","title":{"rendered":"Assets"},"content":{"rendered":"

\t\t\t\tGirls, let’s talk about our babies’ or in my case, my grandbabies\u2019 butterbeans.<\/p>\n

What? You didn’t think this journal was all about discretion, did you?<\/p>\n

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Since I’m awful at keeping my own secrets, you may already know that I was a happy-heiny, cuddle-bun type of mom\u2014cloth diapers all the way.<\/p>\n

I think they’re prettier than throw-aways, comfier for tiny, um, assets. They also keep a boatload of paper and plastic from ending up in landfills. But they’re more than green to me\u2014they’re a philosophy of love.<\/p>\n

My mother is the one who taught me how to cut, hem, and fold square cloth diapers from bolts of cotton flannel. I’m still grateful for that lesson, a family heirloom of sorts, and for that invaluable time spent with my mother before my daughter Meg was born.<\/p>\n

I started folding diapers at an early age using hankies\u2014the perfect doll diaper.<\/p>\n

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Hey, I was even grateful for the time I spent AIRING my dirty laundry, soaping and scrubbing some true unmentionables before they found their way into my wringer washer. My gratitude is renewed even now, when I do my scrubby chores\u2014how could I fail to appreciate the load of workhorse wash rags I ended up with after my last little bundle was potty-trained? Those were some BATTLE-HARDENED diapers, girls. And they were my favorite rags, just SOAKED with love.<\/p>\n

And to make it easy for the moms in my hometown, we have a local delivered-right-to-your-door service, http:\/\/www.gogreendiapers.net\/<\/a><\/p>\n

If you’d like to get started with cloth diapers wherever you are, try\u00a0http:\/\/www.greenmountaindiapers.com\/<\/a> or Cotton Babies http:\/\/www.cottonbabies.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Girls, let’s talk about our babies’ or in my case, my grandbabies\u2019 butterbeans. What? You didn’t think this journal was all about discretion, did you? Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[382,385,605],"class_list":["post-2900","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gratitude","tag-grandkids","tag-gratitude-2","tag-motherhood"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2900","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2900"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2900\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2900"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}