Events This Week

It's a rare moment of peace and quiet.  Even though they pretty much sleep all the time, someone is always grunting and needs a back rub or they are off on their eating schedules (every three hours), so it feels like almost all I do is feed them all day.  Last night was the first time we had Grace, the night nanny, and she IS our saving grace! I got to sleep for 4.5 hours straight.  The longest span since they were born.  I feel like a new woman.  We hope to have her one night a week until they start sleeping through the night to rejuvenate. 
Yesterday, Allie and Harper also got to meet my San-San and Racquet, and mom's sisters' Kim and Michelle.

Aunt Kim and Harper

San-San and Harper

 Last Sunday, Michael's mom, Carolyn, went home.  Before that I had only had one or two days without help from my mom or Carolyn.  Since then, I have had a few moments of feeling sad that these girls have to share my love.  If I am nursing one of them or changing a diaper and the other starts screaming, there is nothing I can do but try to soothe them with my voice until I am finished with the other one.  Also, Allie is often the first one to eat and then she wakes up right as I start feeding Harper, so I feel like I keep missing opportunities to interact with Allie.  She is awake and alert way less than Harper, so this breaks my heart! I have to remind myself that my time with each girl may not be equal, but it will be fair.  In the end, they will both feel loved and cared for.  It's not an accident that God gave us two at once.

Other events this week:

• Photo shoot in the park in new cute dresses:

Harper-L, Allie-R

• First Date Night!  I felt so grown up and it was almost exhilarating to get a babysitter (thanks mom!) and get out! We went to JCT Kitchen on the Westside.  Michael's duck confit was awesome and my Georgia trout was the least fishy, most bacony tasting fish I've ever had.  

• We like JCT Kitchen so much, we went there again when our friend, Jonathan Williams, came to visit.  This time the blueberries were in tow and we enjoyed the Sunday Supper.  Michael and I first had Sunday Supper at The Public House in Chattanooga and love the idea.  Typically, you have a set menu to share a salad and three sides, then choose your own meat, and finish with dessert.  The best side was the squash casserole.  Michael thought that his pork tenderloin won, but I thought that Jonathan's veal meatloaf was better.  I had JCT Kitchen's famous fried chicken drizzled with fancy honey. mmm.  We sat on the patio and enjoyed live music from a party going on next door.  Allie and Harper slept right through the whole meal in their car seats.
• Photo shoot with a professional photographer, so keep checking in to see those pics soon.