True Appreciation

I have had the second most difficult week of my life since becoming a dad. Melissa woke up on Friday, 8/17/07, morning with a pulled back muscle and pinched nerve right before I left for work. I had to come to work because I was the only one schedule to be there that day and let the operators and laborers sign in. So I got Melissa to the couch with the babies to eat and off to work I went. I came back as soon as I could to help. I ended up having to take the whole next week off of work to take care of Melissa and the kids. The first 4 days were pretty tiring. All Melissa could do was feed them and she was able to hold them when she was lying on her back if for some reason they both got upset. I knew that being home with two 12 week old babies was difficult, but I didn't realize how much. And we didn't even cook that much for dinner. We ordered out a few nights and had quick stuff for lunch. By Wednesday, it became much easier. I think I just got used to doing all those things and Melissa was getting better. She was able to get around by herself. On Friday, we finally went somewhere other than the chiropractor. I'm back to work now and I miss them. Matt is such a happy baby when he wakes up in the morning. He's always full of smiles. Emma takes a little longer to wake up. She is a huge stretcher, like me. I'll wake her up and put her on the changing table and just watch her do her thing. Arms straight up above her head while she tucks and straightens her legs and arches her back.

We are putting our house up for sale. We've seen a couple of other bigger houses for sale that are affordable, if we can get enough for our house. We really need the room. When I was young, people could get away with living in such a small house with two or more kids. I know I did. But kids have so much stuff now a days. I could probably get rid of 25% of it and still be able to keep them occupied but this is just the way it is now a days. And besides, most of it came from shower gifts.