Rant: Infantino, I'm disgusted!

It's not often I read something and am so moved to write but it happened just now.

Read the sales pitch here

Are you kidding me? “The other mommies will hate you because of your lack of self-esteem!” This is their selling technique? Make you feel like you’re the worse mother ever so you buy their product?!

As a babywearer, I love seeing carriers go mainstream and cast in a good light. That being said I will never again buy Infantino! It my opinion (well of course It’s my opinion, it’s my blog) that all this company cares about is their bottom line. They knew there was a problem with their bag style carrier (there were plenty of complaints from concerned mamas) and it took them years to pull it. Now they’ve taken a great design, that of a standard Mai Tai carrier, and soured it by saying if you don’t wear your baby they’re going to grow up and hate you!?

I wear my children for a multitude of reasons and not one of them is so the other moms will think I’m cool.

Infantino, you should be ashamed of yourself! You’ve lost me as a customer.

p.s.
I love the warning: Never leave baby unattended.

Rant: Blame it on the economy!

I am so sick of hearing this!

I was appalled back in September when I heard a small town in Oklahoma was having to, essentially, close down the police department. On the news this evening, they were talking about how one Northwest Chicago suburb is having to fire 4 of their police officers to save money.

THIS IS NOT WHERE THE CUT BACKS SHOULD BE COMING FROM!!

I'm all for local, state and the federal government cutting spending to save money instead of raising taxes but seriously?! And, I understand money is tight in this recession the White House says we're out of, but this is not the way to go.

Crime is on the rise and people just don't have the warm and fuzzy feeling of being safe anymore. How are we going to feel when it takes an hour for someone to respond when you call 911?

Now, I don't have the miracle cure, I haven't done the research to know where the money is going that would be considered frivolous. I do know politicians make more than our military, my only suggestion is put congress and the senate, mayors, governors, all of them, on the existing military pay scale. That should save a dollar or two, or maybe the military would get a raise.


My thoughts and prayers are with our brothers and sisters in blue. May they have what they need to keep us safe.

Ramble/Rant: I'm tired!

Do you ever feel you're falling apart?! I sure do... Physically, mentally, emotionally...

I did something to my knee a couple weeks ago and I have a tendency to only remember it's injured when I go trotting up the stairs in the evenings. (I don't do much trotting during the day for some reason.) Earlier today I injured my left index finger and now it just feels odd, it's strange. I can't quite bend it all the way and it's a little swollen, as long as it doesn't fall off during the night I'll be fine, I'm sure.

Mentally, I'm just exhausted so everything is slowing down! Between Paige's teething and B's UTI (Oh, by the way, B has a UTI) I haven't a full nights sleep in weeks. What I would give for just 4 hours of uninterrupted sleep... **I'm imagining what it would be like to wake rested, ahhhh** And I'm back.

Lately, I've been so tired and unmotivated I have completely neglected my house. Luckily today we rearranged the living room so it's been dusted and vacuumed. Now if I could just get on top of the rest of it. To have energy I need rest, to get rest I need the girls to sleep, to get the girls to sleep I have to figure something out, LOL. Ugh!

Emotionally, well, I refer back to the lack of sleep.


Heavenly Father, help me to find rest and motivation. Help me to feel a sense of accomplishment and to enjoy even the most tired of days.