Traveling and Love

hotel...even though I would rather be over packed than forget something. With a baby that feeling has doubled and I want to make sure we have everything she will need while we are away from home. I like to make lists for packing when I go anywhere for longer than a night and it really helps making sure I'm thinking through what I need. For our trip to Washington I was determined to be fully cloth diapered! Although it took up an entire bag of it's own, we brought the cloth diapers and had an interesting time making them work while we were in and out of all the places we stayed.

In my search to make it easier on us, I had dedicated a separate bag for all the clean diapers at the beginning of the trip and took a few out to store in the diaper bag while we traveled. One major thing I noticed about traveling with the diapers was it takes organizing and rearranging during the trip to make it not a complete mess. The bag I had all our cloths in at the beginning became where I kept our dirty cloths from our trip and the bag previously holding our clean diapers became the things we needed for our last night at the hotel. There will be other trips that I will get more practice with cloth diapers and probably have to wash them during the trip and I look forward to the experience.

Other exciting things that have happened for our family in the past two weeks is Claire being half a year old and how Chris and I dealt with Valentine's Day. Our little girl is under weight which has been a slight worry in the back of my head since I am working half the week and unable to always be there to feed her. I have put trust in my husband to start feeding her real food and now that we have baby food in our pantry, she is eating it like a champ! It seemed to be a sudden click on how spoons work and she learned so fast not to put her hand in her mouth while we are feeding her. We have been enjoying seeing her appetite grow and even noticed her seeming to be getting bigger as we feed her more often.

As for our Valentine's plans, we talked about how much we dislike crowds, useless presents, and the commercialized treatment of the day of love. I'm glad we are alike in our dislike for how I always used to see Valentine's Day and we can celebrate in our own way. Chris was happy with a present that he had been wanting for his gun because it was practical and gave him an excuse to get something he wanted. I like the sentimental stuff which we both admit that Chris isn't always good about, but I told him if he didn't do anything for me for Valentine's Day I was going to go on a spending spree. I was pleasantly surprised with a cute love scavenger hunt through our house with a heartfelt letter from him.

You have to know that my husband is not great at showing emotion in that way and I've only ever seen him cry once. I know how much he loves me because of his actions, but he is like his dad and isn't good at putting them into words. I absolutely am the opposite and cried at reading his letter that told me how he feels in the sweetest way. We are a unique couple but we do what works for us to show how much we love each other and I hope anyone who reads this finds their way to show their significant other how much they love them.