Pilgrims’ Progress

One of our necessary preparations for The Trip is to get ER (now 20 months) sleeping in a big bed instead of a cot with sides that keep her in. She’s having her First Ever Daytime Nap in Big Sis’s Bed today:

Sponsorship isn’t just a big corporate affair. Some of our *sponsors* are people I feel fortunate enough to be able to call friends, people I met online, and have subsequently had the privilege of meeting face-to-face (with the exception of The Outrageous One).

So what have sponsors got to do with cloth nappies/diapers? There are some dedicated, creative, earth-friendly, reusable-cloth-providers out there who are helping us make the message global. If we can use cloth in a Mongolian winter, surely it can’t be all that tricky!
To read more about them, please jump to this page. (Be prepared for a rollicking good yarn or four, no sermons to make you feel guilty about using disposable diapers, plastic bags and throwaway pens)

And with all that talk about diapers, I guess this would be a great place to link to the sidebar In Search of a Toilet Page.
And as toilet training is a *parenting issue*, let’s link to the On Parenting Page too.

and here’s a spot for Helen’s ORIGINAL HANDKNITS logo when she makes one;-)

I wondered why Pilgrims' Progress was suddenly a hot destination when I hadn't even posted anything for a couple of days. Here's why: click me. Thanks Kristen! Safety.....children....travel.....(you can see this post is inspired by Kristen's own submission - thanks ... [Continue reading this entry]

Just doing a little blog spring clean (virtual spring cleaning is so much more interesting than the bucket-of-water-and-old-rag-real-life sort!) I've discovered I cannot put categories on the pages listed in my sidebar. Well, actually you CAN put them on, but they ... [Continue reading this entry]