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I was super excited to try the Adiri, so this looks interesting to me. As someone who is working towards an adoption, it's exciting to see something that makes an effort at simulating breast feeding. Yes, I know that nothing is as natural as breastfeeding, but that's exactly why it's important for adoptive families and others who cannot or choose not to breastfeed to have healthy and helpful options.

But yes, let's have more nipple colors!

Love that glider and ottoman - saw on your flickr page it's from Babies r Us, but I don't see it on their site - do you know what the item name and / or number is?

eh... I expected something less matchy matchy...

I'm happily type A so Mondays are:

Laundry
Grocery shopping
Change sheets and towels
Clean bathrooms and kitchen top to bottom
Dusting

Entire house (all hardwoods) gets swept as needed each week with a full on jam on Mondays. They get "mopped" once a month with hardwood cleaner.

The bed is made every day - whoever gets up last which is usually me. No dishes left in the sink overnight, no junk mail, recycle whatever I can, and keep unwanted crap off the counters as much as possible. And no shoes in the house if at all possible. I have a basket of slippers for guests.

I keep a pretty big food stockpile since I cook about 5 times a week. But juice, cookies of some kind, fruit, granola bars, wine, lemons and limes, and a stocked bar are all musts. All keep me from going crazy at various times of the day.

I dream of a full staff...

I feel your pain. Our shower is actually a good size at 3 x 4', and we, too have a shower caddy, but we also have a built in corner-shelf. But overall, our master bathroom is tiny at 4 x 4.5', and has hideous hospital-green tile from when the house was built in the 1950s. We recently started planning our budget-friendly update -- reglazing the square wall tiles to white but preserving the cool green/grey patterned floor, replacing the icky shower door with a 'frameless' option to create the illusion of space, and putting in a pedestal sink and compact one-piece toilet to give a little more room. We're also adding a long mirrored medicine cabinet (55") to make the space feel bigger, and above all, create storage. I can't wait until it's done!