A Moms gotta do, what a Moms gotta do.

Last weekend we had a full day at church. Nathan is really used to going with us everywhere. And I thought I had gotten good about planning ahead for the day, and loading our diaper bag with extras of everything we need.
We decided on a whim to go out to dinner. Alright, I thought, knowing that I had extra baby food in our diaper bag. I felt confidently prepared.
Then at dinner Nathan began to do his all knowing grunt. His face turned red and he started concentrating on filling his diaper the best that he could. After seeing this I realized that I had used all of the cloth diapers that I had packed for the day. Great, now what are we going to do.
Then in a moment of brilliance, I found one left over newborn size diaper in the bottom of the diaper bag. So I plopped the huge turd that Nathan deposited in his diaper into the toilet. Then I put the newborn diaper inside the dirty cloth diaper like a liner and I put it back on him. Granted this only had to last up a short time before we got home.
I told Daniel and our friend of my ingenuity when I returned to the table. "This will end up on the blog, won't it?" said Daniel. Yes, yes it will.

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