gearing up...

...for a busy June. I've been spending the morning getting things situated since a lot is going on:

our babysitter is having her fourth child (a little boy) this weekend
my parents and in-laws will be assisting us every week in June b/c of it
we have vacation bible school
I have the mission trip with 11 HS kids
our parish festival
working a graduation ceremony or two
prep work for the fall

So, I need to be super organized to get through it. And I will. I'm already making to-do lists, since they always make me feel better. Of course, the fact that I can't put any weight on my left ankle and my left hand has severe tendonitis, too is cramping my style a bit, but I'll get over it. I have to.

That's why this past weekend, filled with babies, brats, parties, farmer's market, etc. was such a welcome respite before this crazy month. I'm looking forward to it, I will admit, but I know I'll miss what little sleep I have. Ah well. Life as a mommy, I suppose.

These little ladies continue to amaze me. Mae has started sleeping on her belly, which bothered me so much the first two nights because 'back to sleep' has been so ingrained in me, but she sleeps better. Since she started doing it she no longer wakes up halfway through the night. In fact, that little slug-a-bed slept almost twelve hours last night. And Eve just gets funnier and funnier.

Mae has always been our flirter out in public, but she does get easily startled (I love 'scaring' her b/c it takes about five seconds for her to register amusement rather than fear. But Eve just starts smiling right away when I roar, or make surprise faces. What fun! And she's starting to actually eat some of the cereal, rather than just push it back out with her tongue. New skills!

They are such good social babies. Today when I showed up to drop them off at the sitters another little boy was there, staying without his mom for the first time and he wasn't dealing with it very well. Wow. I couldn't imagine that...our lives are so hectic with work that our girls have (aside from Tues. & Wed. at the sitters) spent at least 30 afternoons/evenings with different sitters, friends, family, etc.

That whole adage of 'it takes a village' is very true for us. Without the communities we belong to we would be lost. Instead, I've got a list 15 deep of people I trust to hang out with the girls for a couple hours when we need it. And because we've done it since birth, these two little ladies (thus far) have been just fine with it.

Ok. Enough of this lolly-blogging around. I've got work to do.