Snowblowers and Poopy Diapers

Just a quick "new baby" story.....
I'm laying in bed a few Sundays ago about 7 AM listening to KC outside. He had gotten up at 5AM to snowblow the driveway so he could get out to go to church by 9. (He also volunteered to do the neighbors driveway cause her hubby was out of town - I think Russ plans his 'trips' around snowstorms - j/k) I'm exhausted and sore and just not in a really good mood and KC comes in laughing. huh?

Soooooo... you all know we just had a baby. A baby we love. A cute adorable baby. But a baby who also produces lots of poopy diapers. I don't know what people did before diaper genies....we thought about maybe not buying one this time - but the thought of taking every poopy diaper (10 + a day) outside with a newborn after surgery in 5 ft. of snow was a bit too much for me. So the diaper genie jumped to the top of the baby shopping list and we purchased it a week before Tessa was born.

Back to KC - so he's laughing and I'm thinking "what the heck? KC doesn't normally laugh after snowblowing for 2 hours." And then he asks me who emptied the diaper genie yesterday. What?

Okay- back to a good 24 hours before.... I'm completely overwhelmed and my house is a disaster and I enlist (draft style, not volunteer style) my children to help me clean my out of control house. They decide that they've been watching dad long enough and they know how to empty the diaper genie. Which they did (I was surprised and happy) and we send Bethany outside with the diaper sausage links to put in the big trash can outside......do you see it coming yet?

YES!!! KC proceeds to tell me that as he's snowblowing outside that he gets close to the garbage can and the snowblower starts acting funny. And before he could realize what was going on the little mini diaper genie sausages start shooting out of the snowblower into the drift across the driveway! OHMYGOSH!!! Sooo we do a little investigation and Bethany said that when she went outside the lid on the garbage can was frozen shut so she just left the diaper sausage links in front of the trash can. Which would have been fine had it not snowed 8 inches that night...!!

Anyway- KC tried to retrieve them all out of the snowbank, but he thinks we might have a few surprises come Spring. NICE!!! LOL! Thank goodness they are little newborn diapers- otherwise I don't know if the snowblower would have survived. Something I'll have to remember when Tessa's 2 and the big kids want to 'help' by emptying the diaper genie.

So- snowblowers and poopy diapers. While not a good combination normally, it makes for a great way to start off an otherwise gloomy morning.