The Unexpected Tragedy of my Lost Snappi

I love diaper pins, as I've mentioned before. I love that they're simple and effective, and they hold the diaper in place without putting anything restricting across the waist or down the crotch. Now that my daughter is starting to sit up, I'm loving prefolds and pins because they leave her waist unrestricted, and it makes it easier for her to sit. Having said that, I lost our only Snappi just over a week ago, and it was much harder to survive without it than I thought it would be. I don't even know how many times I ended up reaching for an all-in-one because I didn't want to have to wrestle my daughter down to use pins on a prefold. I also discovered that, while pins are fine with the cheap Gerber prefolds, they are really hard to poke all the way through our higher quality, thicker Green Mountain Diapers prefolds. I ended up using a lot more Gerber prefolds and a lot less of the GMDs, which meant I ended up changing her diaper a bit more often.
I broke down and bought a new Snappi today- red, instead of mint. I used it the rest of the day, and it was like being reunited with an old friend.