wipes epiphany

so, i'm going to admit to you that i am a creature of habit.  i love routine, doing things the same way every time, putting things back in their rightful place every time.  i am predictable. it is usually quite nice, if i do say so myself, as things are orderly and quite peaceful.  the only drawback is that... as i've mentioned before... this motherhood thing involves a lot of trial and error, especially as the baby grows and changes.  so keeping things the same, no matter how much i want to, is not usually the best option for very long.

also, i feel the need to reiterate here that i have very little experience with babies.  changing diapers is one particular area where i have only about 10 months of experience, since moses's was the first diaper i had ever changed in my 32 years of life.  so, i was thinking about our wipes one day, and what a struggle it is to fish out wipes from our box.  it was then, after 10 months of doing things the same way every single day for thousands of wipes, that it came to me.

see, i purchase wipes refills that come in those plastic sleeves.  and i have stuck those into the larger plastic white container each time they ran out.  i'm sure you're familiar with all these items.  what i didn't do was take the wipes out of the plastic sleeve when i put it into the larger bin.  so, i was sticking my fingers into the hole on the top of the larger bin, and then into the hole on the top of the plastic sleeve and blindly pinching at the wipes in hopes that i could grab just one and that it would come out with the next wipe following after it, so that i wouldn't have to pinch for the next one too.  what i mean to say is that those wipes did not want to come out of the little hole on that darn flimsy plastic sleeve.

i was *so* relieved when i realized that i could rip open the side of the sleeve like a bag of potato chips and just slide those wonderful wipes out into the large bin.  and throw that darn flimsy plastic sleeve in the trash.  i was also astonished and a little bit embarrassed that it didn't occur to me for 10 months.  *10 months* of struggle with these wipes!

i have got to start thinking out of the box more.

lovelove,
me