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I need a diaper cake for a baby shower. Do I make one? Do I buy one? DO I use disposables or cloth? So many questions and so many options in adorable baby gifts and specifically baby shower gifts. Since I live in a small town if I go to the ONE big store we have then duplicate gifts might be an issue. Guess I need to look online.

I am leaning towards maybe buying one…most moms are still using sposies. I found Lil Baby Cakes online, a place that makes diaper cakes and they are pretty cool looking. I love the 4 tier cake with little frogs and it is for a little girl which is perfect. It looks like you get diapers, a pink blankie, toys, and Burt’s Bees products. I just love Burt’s Bees and they are pretty safe and natural products…great for babies.

If they made that cake with cloth diapers it would rock! They also have cakes in a safari theme, a religious theme, a teddy bear theme, and a princess theme, among others. They also have gifts you can order and personalize. Looks like a great shop!

I am just wondering how shipping a diaper cakes works.

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I joined an online unschooling group recently and foolishly I did not read the group’s mission statement. It was actually a group of “radical unschoolers”.  I think I have talked about them here before and while I think they have a lot of valuable lessons they can teach about living with compassion and peace, sometimes I think they are a bit off their rockers and I am pretty “out there” myself.

Right after I joined the group a discussion started about an unschooling magazine run by an unschooling family. Apparently the family ran across hard times…financial and possibly an illness. Basically this means they stopped publishing the magazine six months ago with little or no communication to their subscribers. To make matters worse they are still accepting payments for subscriptions today and have been this whole time. So people have been sending money for this magazine for months and getting nothing in return. AND they have been in contact via email with some of the people on this particular group so they can’t exactly say they are not able to get online, otherwise communicate, or refund money.

Some of the unshooling moms on this group were getting pretty angry and felt as though perhaps a talk with the BBB or taking legal action was needed….since they were out money and also since this family was still collecting money under false pretenses. Basically this family is stealing IMO and in the opinions of several others on this group. The family is not answering emails or letters in regards to this situation either.

Well, when legal action was mentioned a nice portion of the unschoolers started belittling the women who were upset by this theft. I kid you not they started telling them to let it go….that the family must have needed the money more than they did and they should be thankful their family is healthy instead of making a big deal out of $30. They told these women that they had no sense of compassion and that a decent person would just consider their money lost as a donation to a worthy cause and get over it. Oh and here was the BEST one…one lady said that the ones upset by the theft were actually given a gift. You see they had been looking to a magazine to fix some deep seated problem in their lives and when their money was stolen they now had a chance to look inward and fix that problem and come out a better person.

Oh wait…no…the most outrageous thing was when another lady compared taking legal action to how some jerk actually called the police on her to “punish” her when she decided to leave her baby in the car while she went into the library to check some books out.

WTH?!?! Now they use radical unschooling (RU) to explain away theft?? What a bunch of BS! Apparently RUs believe that stealing is okay if you need whatever it is you stole more than the person you stole it from. And compassion dictates you let people steal from you as needed.

Ugh….I think I should unsub from this group.

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