March 3, 2010: Day 1 without grandparents, uncles, aunts, or nannies. That means that in addition to the ~4:30am shift, I had the ~7:30am feed, and Jaime hoped to sleep in until ~10am. No problem. Early to bed, early to rise, short nap between feeds, now I'm done at 8am and what to do with the kids... I know, take them to Home Depot with me! So the kids got in their first hardware store shopping experience. We got stuff for the sprinkler system (no small load for our yard), some chicken wire/netting to keeps the bunnies out of the vegetable garden, and some tubing for the kegs so that my taps can be more than 1' from the keg nozzle (i.e. so that daddy can more easily get beer from the kegs in the fridge when the kiddos give me only one spare moment to rush back there. When I left for the store, going back and forth between car and house about five times to grab that one last thing I forgot the previous time, I had hopes of making it not just to Home Depot, but to Babies R Us and the grocery store as well. No such luck. Jaime and I learned last night that the kids are on a roughly three hour ticking time bomb scale from the beginning of one feed to the next, and it's better not to attempt to stretch that by even ten minutes. So, just one store, but the trip was successful, and Sam & Ella were a big hit with the guys in plumbing and the grannies at the cash register.
Wow. you're brave (and strong!) for venturing out of the house to Home Depot with twins in tow. And only 5 trips back into the house for things you forgot. I think that's a record. You should be proud for getting one errand done. Babies R Us and grocery can wait for another day!
ReplyDeleteAlso, unrelated, how long should it take to upload an video to blogger? Mine's been uploading for 3 hours (for a 1 min clip) and I'm beginning to get doubtful. Have you done it before?
Love to the family!