I am taking part in the Second Annual Flats and Handwashing Challenge hosted by Dirty Diaper Laundry. For 7 days I will be using only flat cloth diapers and handwashing them in an effort to prove that cloth diapering can be affordable and accessible to all. You can learn more about the rules and why this challenge was started by visiting the announcement post. This year there are over 45o participants from all over the world!
One of the most difficult aspects of this challenge for me was not so much the actual washing, but deciding to blog the adventure. I not only committed to hand washing flats for a week, but to blog about it every.single.day. too. Normally I blog on a whim. A story or an issue brought up leads me to talk about it on my blog. I try to do it on a semi-regular basis, but I’m absolutely NOT a blog every week let alone a blog every day kinda gal. Mostly it’s the time commitment & the whole type up something that is somewhat coherent that people who are not in my head can follow along without too much translation.
It’s the 2 year old really. The wee nymph who is the one subjected to my experiment this week of flats. She is a tiny little ball of energy & want someone to interact with her all the time. Who can blame her? The bigs will generally give me time when I ask them for it, but you can’t ask that of a 2 year old. Or at least not for very long.
The other thing I’ve realized this week is that if I can carve out time to hand wash flats & to blog about it, I can carve out more time to take care of me. I haven’t been very good about that recently & made a commitment to myself this year to change that, even if it’s in small steps. If I gave myself the time to exercise they way I gave myself time to do this challenge I could make a big difference in a very short amount of time. I’m not getting any younger & time isn’t slowing down one bit.