The World According to Mommy

Nate and I go running in the mornings, and now that fall has officially arrived, it's starting to get pretty chilly in the mornings. I bundle him up in a long sleeve shirt, pants, socks, and zip-up hoodie, but I'm just worried that as it gets colder that's not going to be warm enough for him.

I've been eyeing this blanket called Secure2Me which has clips sewn onto the four corners so that you can clip it to your stroller and not have it fall off:

However, this blanket, which is very cute, is $48 (plus shipping). That's a lot of money for a blanket that Nate will be using for 30-45 minutes per day, so I thought maybe I could tap into my frugal creativity and come up with something that might work just as well.

I took one of Nate's blankets that I hadn't been using, and with some suggestions from Matt, I put a safety pin through the bottom corner, as well as a little ways up, and then put safety pins through the stroller. That way I can easily hook one of the safety pins through the other. This will also make it easy to remove the blanket when we want to talk walks during the day when it's warmer.

I then took these two clippy-things that I bought a few months ago, clippy-things which I had no idea what I was going to do with, but which looked like they might come in handy one day, and I clipped the top corners of the blanket to the stroller.

And this is the final product:

Definitely not as cute as the $48 blanket, but just as functional! And hopefully it will keep my baby just as warm!