February Giveaway!

It's time for our first monthly giveaway! For your consideration - your choice of either a green Painted Patooties "Sweet Baby" pocket diaper in size medium or a copy of a great cloth diapering book, "Diaper Changes: The Complete Diapering Book and Resource Guide" by Theresa R. Farrisi.







You may enter (only once please) anytime between 12:01 a.m. Central time on February 1st, 2009 and 11:59 p.m. Central time on February 28th. Enter by posting a comment to this blog entry. Shipping varies by your location but should be around 2 or 3 dollars.

Rogers M.O.M.S. Club Meeting, March 16th

The Rogers (MN) M.O.M.S. Club has invited me to give a 10 minute presentation at their March 16th meeting. The topic of the day will be green living. They are planning on showing a video, hearing from me, and having another speaker who will talk about green cleaning products. The meeting is from 9:30am - 11:30am at the Word of Peace Lutheran Church and is open to current or prospective members of the Rogers M.O.M.S. Club. Contact the Rogers chapter for more info on the meeting (www.geocities.com/rogersmoms).

Never heard of M.O.M.S. Club? It is an international moms organization that has chapters almost EVERYWHERE. M.O.M.S. stands for Moms Offering Moms Support and is geared towards helping stay-at-home moms build a community of mothers in their local area. You can find out more and find your local chapter at www.momsclub.org.

Parenting Oasis Class

Tuesday I taught a class at the Parenting Oasis (www.parentingoasis.com) called "Everything You Ever Wanted To Know About Cloth Diapering". It went very well I think. I got to chat with alot of mamas, and also got alot of donations for TG.

If you would be interested in having someone teach your group more about cloth diapering, let me know, i'm happy to help. I can provide anything from a 5-10 minute quick presentation to a full-fledged class to setting up an informational table at your diaper swap - all free of charge.

If you don't have an organization, but just want to know more about cloth diapering, I am happy to provide support by email. If you want the in-person experience to touch and feel diapers I am more than happy to make an appointment with you to come to my house and get a personalized "lesson" in cloth diapering.

Welcome! I have so much to share, but I didn't want to clutter the Teeny Greenies website (www.teenygreenies.org) with all my musings and news, thus this blog was born.

As things start to look really good for Teeny Greenies cloth diaper lending, I am starting to just ponder the future of Teeny Greenies, and where we'll go as we get some steam behind us. I love lending cloth diapers and I want to build that into a strong, self-sustaining organization, but I don't think i'll be happy stopping there. At the cloth diaper class I taught on Tuesday someone asked me if I knew anyone or anywhere that would lend slings. The funny thing was, I was just thinking about possibly expanding Teeny Greenies to include slings and carriers. It was a sign I think. So I decided that I needed to have a big, pie-in-the-sky goal, a direction to travel as things progress with Teeny Greenies. Here is what I came up with - I would like to someday have Teeny Greenies grow into a Holistic Family Lending Library. We would lend not only cloth diapers, but also slings, simple and natural toys, homeschooling supplies, and of course books and movies on related topics. Things that are morally, developmentally, and/or ecologically positive. I would also like this lending library to have a space for holding classes, swaps, playgroups, whatever. So, we are far far away from that goal, and that's fine, but I feel better and more purposeful with a larger goal to aim at.