Life As We Have Known It Is Changing Forever
As most of you know we have 4 year old quadruplet grandbabies - 2 girls / 2 boys plus their now 6 year old big brother that we keep either 2 days or 3 days each week so that their "work from home" parents can actually get a little work done.
We started keeping Jacob every weekend when our daughter was about 3 months pregnant with the quads, on total bed rest with twice a day monitoring. Our son in law was working himself to death trying to keep up on housework, caring for a 7 month old child, twice daily monitorings, etc, etc so we started to pick him up every Saturday for the weekend just for a little break for our son in law. That has continued to this day.
Once the quads were born, a couple months early, they needed all the help they could get, so I started going out to their house a couple days a week to help, Betty, our son in law's mother, would come out 2-3 days a week to help out. Then a little over 3 years ago my sister, a retired government worker and on-line teacher, moved down from Pittsburgh in order to help with the kids as well. It was then that we started a little routine of picking them all up on Tuesday morning, keeping them overnight, then Wednesday afternoon our daughter would pick them up after naps. Then the next week we (my sister and I) would pick them up Wednesday morning and they'd stay at my house until Friday after naps, when Denise would come pick them up. My son in law's mother would continue to come to their house the other week days to help take care of the kids. This has gone on, like I mentioned, for the past three years.
Well, today ended the alternate Tues/Weds and Weds/Thurs/Fri kids at our house because the "babies" start Pre-K next Monday (Jacob will be in First Grade), so we are no longer needed. Here's a picture of the kids and my sister -
I would like to say a special THANK YOU to my sister, Diana, for making the move here to help out with the kids. She will be moving back to Pittsburgh in another month, and I'm gonna have to put together a BIG list of things to keep me busy, because I can't allow myself to even think about next week without my babies and big boy Jacob or I'm gonna cry!!
We started keeping Jacob every weekend when our daughter was about 3 months pregnant with the quads, on total bed rest with twice a day monitoring. Our son in law was working himself to death trying to keep up on housework, caring for a 7 month old child, twice daily monitorings, etc, etc so we started to pick him up every Saturday for the weekend just for a little break for our son in law. That has continued to this day.
Once the quads were born, a couple months early, they needed all the help they could get, so I started going out to their house a couple days a week to help, Betty, our son in law's mother, would come out 2-3 days a week to help out. Then a little over 3 years ago my sister, a retired government worker and on-line teacher, moved down from Pittsburgh in order to help with the kids as well. It was then that we started a little routine of picking them all up on Tuesday morning, keeping them overnight, then Wednesday afternoon our daughter would pick them up after naps. Then the next week we (my sister and I) would pick them up Wednesday morning and they'd stay at my house until Friday after naps, when Denise would come pick them up. My son in law's mother would continue to come to their house the other week days to help take care of the kids. This has gone on, like I mentioned, for the past three years.
Well, today ended the alternate Tues/Weds and Weds/Thurs/Fri kids at our house because the "babies" start Pre-K next Monday (Jacob will be in First Grade), so we are no longer needed. Here's a picture of the kids and my sister -
I would like to say a special THANK YOU to my sister, Diana, for making the move here to help out with the kids. She will be moving back to Pittsburgh in another month, and I'm gonna have to put together a BIG list of things to keep me busy, because I can't allow myself to even think about next week without my babies and big boy Jacob or I'm gonna cry!!
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