That’s the best word I can find to describe yesterday: off.

It wasn’t a bad day by any stretch, but it just felt like we were a step or two away from normal. 

I think the weekend caught up with me, so I was really tired.  And we had company, so nap schedules and my normal routine were missing.  Erin hardly napped all day…still don’t know why.  Then Eric came home exhausted from an all-day meeting.  And our night was not as completely sleep-ful as I would have liked. 

But like I said, it wasn’t a bad day.  My MIL and Eric’s grandma came to visit.  They brought lunch, and hung out for a few hours.  I’m finding that spending most days alone with babies has caused my socializing skills to go rusty (and they weren’t that great to begin with!).  So I was glad they headed home sooner than I thought they would. 

The primary reason for their visit, however, was so my MIL could finally bring over the wall hangings she made for the nursery.  She designed and made them herself on her new sewing/embroidery machine. I think they turned out incredibly cute.   Now I just hope I manage to get them hung up in a shorter amount of time than it took her to make them!

Anyway – here are some pics of them.

Alex’s blanket
 

Erin’s blanket
   

Last night, Alex did not wake up to eat!!!!

of course, i still heard him a few times, but he went right back to sleep on his own.  Whoopeee!  now we’ll just try to keep this up!

And i wonder how long it will be before i’m not super-full before 3 am…

today my mil is coming to visit and bringing eric’s grandma, too, i believe. Should be fun, I think.

I’ve got Erin on my lap right now so this is mostly one-handed…and it’s too hard to type this way, so i’m done!  Later!

So what was Friday’s post about, you ask?  Well…my annual spring ant infestation (I HATE ants in my kitchen) appeared about 45 minutes before Eric had to leave for his men’s retreat.  And Eric was leaving really early (9:30 am for a retreat that started at 6 that evening), which I was struggling not to be bitter about.  And then to discover that I had to clean my kitchen top to bottom before doing anything else and while Eric was trying to get out of the house…well, it was just more than I deal with at that moment.   Thankfully, the Spirit helped me get over it, and we all survived.  And I haven’t seen any more ants since then…I guess my foul attitude scared them away!

While Eric was gone, I went to my parents’ house.  Of course, since it was graduation weekend, and my parents were super busy, I still spent most of that time totally alone with two babies, which was pretty tiring.  But at least my parents provided regular interruptions (which I would not have gotten at home), and they got to spend about 4 hours on Saturday afternoon just lovin’ on the babies which was great for all of them!

Sunday was church, of course.  Eric mowed, and I ran to the grocery store since I hadn’t been able to do that during the rest of the weekend.  And I made it to bible study for the last lesson of this session.  So Eric watched the babies most of yesterday, but all went well, really.

This morning, I found Erin lying in a mess of her own making.  Since she hadn’t really pooped since Friday, I’d been waiting for that diaper-filling, but it was worse than I thought it would be!  So now I have a major load of laundry to do this morning so Erin can nap in her crib again…good times, huh?

Anyway, I should get on to that, I guess.  Later!

It has not been a happy Friday so far.  I hope it gets better quickly.  Or that I can get a hold on my attitude quickly.