Monday, August 3, 2009

So does this really make me a bad mother?

Okay, so we went to a moms' group meeting today
sponsored by Happy Baby organic baby food. 10
babies and their mothers (and one dad) plus the two
of us. Neither of us was wearing anything remotely
organic, we hadn't eaten anything that we had grown
with our own two hands, we didn't drive to the park
in a hybrid vehicle and -- here's the rub --
Jack was the only baby wearing disposable diapers.

Oh my gosh. The horror! The horror!

I don't know why I hadn't noticed this before. We've
been to lots of activities with these same moms (and
one dad) and I've never felt singled out. It probably
would have been a non-issue but I had dressed him in
Calvin Klein denim shorts (I know...so cool!) that are
still WAY too big for him and they kept falling down,
putting the offensive Pampers on constant display.
No one said anything, but I know what they were thinking.
I might as well have pulled out my store-bought bong
and passed it around the circle or started drinking
from a Styrofoam cup. What a horrible mother! What
kind of world does she want her baby to grow up in?!

I make our baby food (for the most part) but I just
can't seem to bring myself to wash diapers. I don't
even handle it very well when a little bit of poop
ends up on my hands! Oh well, they seem to like me
anyways so at least I'll give them something to talk
about at the next Mother Earth meeting.

Otherwise, it was a great day and we did get lots of
good information and a bag of free stuff. Free stuff
makes up for ill will in my book.

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