Well, I do have a few more things I would like to knock off of the 90 in 2010 before New Years rolls around and I unveil my new list. To be honest, I haven’t even thought about the new list yet or what to put on it or which unfinished ones I would like to carry over, but I certainly will be thinking about that over the next little while. January 1st is coming up very fast!
#42 Try the diaper-less baby method with baby.
This is a very cool idea that my husband was familiar with and we decided to try it with our son before he was born. The concept is simple. It requires the parent to be aware of their little one’s *ahem* bodily functions and then you can make a noise to begin associating the elimination with the noise. The process requires time, commitment and consistency. For more information you can go here.
We began to try the diaperless method with our son, Finley, around 3 months, after the colic was dealt with through chiropractic care. But then we needed to put him on a routined schedule because we had developed some bad sleeping habits with him. And that makes the diaperless method difficult to do on a full-time basis. Plus, being our first child, we didn’t quite know what we were doing most of the time in general and found it difficult to add another thing to the pile so the consistency began to get less and less until we stopped altogether.
It wasn’t an entirely noble effort on our parts I must admit but I really do like the concept quite a bit. It gets your baby out of diapers faster and helps your baby to begin to recognize his or her own elimination needs. I would like to try it again with our second child ~ after everything we went through with Fin, I hope that we’ll have a better grasp on a second baby!
80. Source out a local letterpress company in Vancouver for business cards.
Ah, business cards. Producing these have been the bane of my existence the past few months. I looked into letterpress for business cards but it was going to be too expensive to produce so I went a different route with a local printer in Vancouver. I had a really good feeling about the company, the samples looked amazing and the price was fantastic but when I got them back ~ well, let’s just say the quality was so horrible that I wouldn’t even want to give one to my mother!
Needless to say, I returned the cards, cut my losses and decided to go through Moo instead, especially since I had been hearing fantastic reviews from friends. The package is in the mail and I should be getting them by mid-January. I am so excited to finally be getting proper business cards instead of printing them myself!
90. Begin to network with other photographers in the Vancouver area.
This has been one of the more enjoyable items on my list. I’ve gotten to connect with a number of new photographers and meet up with a few that I have already been in contact with. And I’m looking to meet more into 2011 and not just photographers!
And because a blog post is never complete without an image, here is one of many more babies to come!
Happy Boxing Day!
