So here I am, almost seven months into this parenting thing, and I find that I am much more crunchy than I expected to be. I always thought of crunchy moms as hippie, yoga-pants wearing, anti-everything pediatrician suggests. When I was pregnant, I thought I would be a mom who took advantage of every possible modern convenience.

I am much closer to crunchy now! We mostly cloth diaper, which I never expected to do. I love the pretty diapers and I don’t mind the extra load every other day. I even hung a little clothesline in the backyard so that I didn’t spend the savings in cloth diapering in energy to run the dryer.

Today, I made a nice big batch of baby food. I cooked up green beans and sweet potatoes. Then I purred them and froze in ice cube trays. I’ll have healthy, preservative-free baby food for at least a month.

This picture doesn’t do justice to the color of this beautiful veggie! I know Giana is going to love eating this up.

I’m still not really sure how I got this way. I just kept deciding that a little time is worth it if I can make something a little better for Giana.