Crazy Saturday

Yesterday, at the beginning of the day, here's how we thought our day was going to go: Richard and I planned to work together cleaning a bit in the morning, then we were going to go to a community event with free kids stuff, then Richard was going to tune a friends piano, then I was going to go grocery shopping and clean the house, then Stacy (Richard's brother's wife in town from Oregon) was coming over to visit in the evening.

Here's how the day actually went: Richard and I worked together to clean the basement because we couldn't find his piano tuning tools - we never did find them. So after an hour or so of work we called the friend and cancelled the piano tuning for that afternoon. Then we packed the kids up and went off to our community event. Which was fun - but not ALL free. We spent about $10 on rides. But we did find the perfect "Belle" earrings to go with Naomi's Halloween costume. As we were leaving we saw a friend we know from church. We'll call her Charlotte. She was surronded by Police so we went over to investigate. Turns out her 10 year old son had fallen off his skate board and hit his head and banged up his knee. They only have one car and she had her 8 year old son with her too. Charlotte's husband and infant twin sons were at home. So we took the 8 year old and drove her car to their house so her husband could meet them at the hospital (they went in an ambulance). We took their 8 year old and the twins with us to our house. So much for an afternoon of grocery shopping and cleaning. It was all we could do to keep everybody fed at once! The three extra kids were at our house until about 4:30 and Stacy was coming at 6!! Plus, now the house was extra messy instead of extra clean. And the grocery shopping HAD to be done or we wouldn't be able to feed Stacy. Anyway - in the end I kinda enjoyed having those cute little twins around for a couple of hours, and the house did get mostly cleaned in a whirlwind while Richard took the kids to the grocery store, and we fed Stacy and really enjoyed chatting with her. So it all turned out fine. But it was one crazy, whirlwind, unexpected day.

We really believe that we were meant to not find Richard's piano tools because if we had found them we wouldn't have been there at the right time to help Charlotte. We are so thankful for a loving Heavenly Father who guides us to the right situations.


Question: Can you tell which one is Isaiah?

Answer: The one on the far left. And the one in the middle. It's a trick question. One of Charlotte's twins is named Isaiah too.



I have a whole new respect for Moms with twins or triplets or any more than one. There was one point where all three babies wanted to be fed at the same time. We had to enlist Charlotte's 8 year old son to help feed one of his brothers while Richard and I each fed another baby. It was so crazy that we just had to look at each other and laugh.