Pay It Forward

I believe you should pay it forward everyday in any little way that you can. One way I like to pay it forward is with advice. So today this will be about my advice to others and things that I've done recently for others that have made me happy as well :)
Today's piece of advice is for new mommies. If you are a new mommy, you get so much unsolicited advice from people who know everything about anything. Well here is what I know that is actually helpful. If you are planning on having a second child ever.....then keep one of each size of diapers. This will help you know if you need to move up a size in diapers before you end up with massive poopslopsions up the @ss crack of your child and his or her clothes. It is much better to be prepared for the inevitable by avoiding this situation altogether, so if the diaper is getting a little snug, don't just try and finish that pack of diapers because you will regret it. Save them for your second monster.
I am thankful for the stranger who answered my Facebook ad for a size 3 diaper. She gave me two different kinds and we had a thirty minute conversation about how certain diapers smell very chemically so you can't tell if your child has taken a poop without the infamous sniff test. Well, personally, I don't like that smell nor do I like the sniff test. Her generosity though has helped me realize that I need to get a bigger size diaper now before my kid and his big butt explodes. Thank you stranger for helping me today!! :)
Another piece of advice is when your child has really horrible smelling dumps, you need to eliminate that odor as best you can. Even if you own an elite diaper container that promises to be the best out there, you will still have smell. To minimize that crap (ha ha no pun intended), try to tie the nasty, dirty, digusting diapers up in scented plastic bags before you shove them in the diaper container or your trashcan.
For my first pay it forward act,  I recently sent candy to a friend whose husband decided to throw out the rest of her Valentine's candy. Cardinal rule for husbands-never throw out anything without our permission. Just because something has been laying around for a long amount of time doesn't mean we don't need it. Chances are, we have just misplaced it and need you to point us in the right direction. After all, some of us are mothers and as a mother, we are busy doing five thousand things at one time. Therefore, help us find our shi@ and do not think you are helping by eliminating our messes.
My next pay it forward has been that I am donating my breast milk to a complete stranger.  My husband told me  I was absolutely not allowed to put out a classified ad on Craigslist because of all the nuts out there, so I found the next best medium....Facebook. Sounds strange, huh? Not really because my milk is like liquid gold. It can get a sick child better and keep another child from getting sick at the same time. It's also something that you can get for free if you keep hydrated and pump, pump, pump it up!! Well this liquid gold is hard for many to produce for various reasons...adoption, stress, lack of supply, etc. I've had no such hardships except that I produce a lot and when I began pumping for my El Porker Bambino, I was eating my favorite things....cheese and yogurt. Those were pretty much my staple foods to snack on. Well even though they were (and still are) my favorite things ever-they are my child's least favorite things (behind the Zantac he takes). See these yummy goodness items make him scream like a banshee. So in an effort to stop the madness,  I've got to get rid of the 78 ounces of breast milk that have been taking over my freezer for the past 2 and 1/2 months. Well what does one do with breast milk that can't be used.....put it on Facebook of course!
So those are my pay it forwards as of late. I can think of many more, but I'm going to go eat my humble pie now. I genuinely hope you can pay it forward too!