Over the last few months, I’ve become increasingly alarmed at the number of disposable diapers my two wee ones contribute to local landfills.  And so the fact that Vivi went all day today without a potty accident should be a happy day for both Mother Lori AND Mother Earth, right???

But even as I was congratulating myself on the positive impact Vivi’s training will have on the environment, I stumbled across an article that made me laugh so hard I almost had a potty accident of my own: “American Taste for Soft Toilet Roll Worse than Driving Hummers.” The article claims that “The tenderness of the delicate American buttock is causing more environmental devastation than the country’s love of gas-guzzling cars, fast food or McMansions.”  At fault, they say, is “the US public’s insistence on extra-soft, quilted and multi-ply products when they use the bathroom.”

While environmentalists may poo-poo this mother’s hard-earned victory with their rash assertions that the soft toilet paper used by the now four potty proficient members of my family is akin to “ecological destruction,” I simply refuse to make my own reusable “family wipes” from fabric scraps, like those sold here http://living.wallypop.net/wipes.html.

For heaven’s sake, laundry day is bad enough as it is.

 What will they think of next???