Weather and Diapers

There's a strange correlation when you're out where we are between the weather and laundry.  Besides the obvious - you don't want to hang up your laundry when it's going to rain or freeze.  On a good, hot, breezy summer day, I can wash and dry two loads of laundry on the clothesline and if I play my cards right, I can get a third on dry on the racks up on the deck.  Those are the sweet spots of days when I feel like super country mom.

But when there's the threat of snow, ice, or severe storms another problem arises - diapers.  We cloth diaper for a few reasons.  Some of which being better for the environment, and more cost effective for multiple children, blah,blah blah.  We will never run out of diapers and have to make a midnight run to town to buy any.  So, when weather moves in that has the chance to knock our power out, I have to take a quick clean diaper inventory and weigh if I have enough to last me should there be a power outage.  I'm sure my husband would fire up the generator so I could do a load if I needed to, but so far we've been pretty fortunate in that respect.

It's just begun to show here and it's expected to give us anywhere from 7-10 inches of it.  So, last night at 8 pm, I started a load of diapers.  And at 10 pm, they were done and my husband and I had a diaper-hanging race on the drying racks before bedtime.  Exciting times, indeed.