Weekend Madness

Oh, Summer is here with all it's wonderful flavors...like this corn we cooked out on the grill!

Today I have been doing Mom things. “What are Mom things?” you ask. Well let me tell you. This morning I washed the dishes, cleaned the counter tops, vacuumed all of the hard floors in the house, mopped all the floors in the house, re-vacuumed the floors in the living room, cleaned up puke, Started laundry, cleaned up spit-up, bathed 2 children, read “If You Give a Pig a Party”, folded laundry, worked on colors and counting, made lunch and got everyone down for a nap. Then got everyone a snack, got everyone ready, went to the bank, the cleaners, and the grocery story, unloaded everything, and went to celebrate my BIL's birthday! You know, Mom Things.

We left on our trip Thursday afternoon. Mom and I headed out to watch My niece’s Field Day at school. It was tons of fun, and Very HOT!

We (Mom, Ber, Rach, Wyatt, and I) left RL and headed to North Texas to see my Cousin, her husband, big brother and their 3 new little girls. Our sweet other cousin let us crash at his house during our stay; we didn’t want to intrude on momma and her babies any more than we already were. We got there so late Thursday night that we just went to bed that night. FINALLY Friday morning we were able to see everyone! They were much more beautiful in person than they were in the pictures. It was amazing; 3 perfect and beautiful and healthy little girls. Only God can work magic like that.

Baby A

Baby B

Baby C

Here they area all sleeping. Right now they live in the living room.

This is big brother, Will.

Wyatt was SO good! He just needed a little love!!

There were times I said to myself, “this is easy!” Of course there were 4, sometimes, 5 of us there. Most days my cousin does most of it alone. AND, she does it with such grace. She has learned to accept help when it’s offered, she is a good delegator, and she takes it all one step at a time. I was totally in awe.

Right now Baby A is about 8 lbs, baby C is about 6 lbs and Baby B is somewhere in the middle. They will be 3 months old tomorrow!!!

While we were there we learned that my sister’s father-in-law had been taken to the hospital with chest pains. The doctors scheduled an angiogram for Monday and were planning to keep Amber’s FIL in the hospital until then so we headed that way. We made a few stops like we had previously planned, but tried to hurry and get there so that Ber could be with her hubby and his family. It took forever! For a while I really thought we were never going to make it! But we did…finally!

Sunday we made a retail stop on our way to the hospital, then after a quick visit headed back home. We learned that everything is ok with Amber's FIL, they think they can treat it with medication. So that's really good news.

It was a good weekend, but a long one!