It’s sunday. I’m sitting at the dining room table typing away on the laptop with the soft, soothing sounds of the music coming from the babies’ swing in the background. Gabriel is quietly snorting away in the bouncy chair while Chloe dozes in the swing. Robyn’s eating a bagel and sipping coffee in our bedroom while catching up on some TV. I look out the window and see the sun shining through the what’s left of the golden leaves on the trees in the yard. I take a deep breath and take time to savor these moments of quiet solitude before tackling the list of things that we are going to try to get done today.

Robyn’s mom stayed with us for the last couple of days to help out. She was really a huge pair of helping hands, giving us the opportunity to get some badly needed chores done and just generally take the pressure off. After a really bad few days of reflux and babies crying last week, we’ve now, on our doctor’s orders, begun adding rice cereal to Gabriel and Chloe’s formula in addition to a bit of Maalox to calm their bellies. So far, we’ve seen a huge improvement. Although Chloe is still having some reflux, it’s no where near as bad as it was. We’ve also had the opportunity to sort of take a step back and observe without feeling like bad parents in order to take stock of what works and what doesn’t. Overall, the situation seems much more manageable than it did just a week before.

I’ve been back to working from home during the week. That made the beginning of last week particularly difficult as Robyn was feeling a lot of pressure to not bother me and I was feeling torn in two directions – do I ignore the crying and screaming upstairs and continue to work or let work slide? It was a challenge! It will be interesting to see how this week goes.

What’s on the list for today?
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[*][url=http://www.shoprite.com/]Grocery shopping[/url]
[*]Order more prints from [url=http://www.costco.com]Costco[/url]
[*]Pick up prints and other necessities from [url=http://www.costco.com]Costco[/url]
[*]Blow the leaves out of the back yard
[*]Blow the leaves out of the front yard
[*]Put together new bouncer and swing
[*]Get more stuff out of the office
[*]Bathe babies
[*]100 other things I’m sure I’m forgetting
[/list]

There’s never enough time to get everything done anymore. We know that it’s unrealistic to even think we can get it all done, but that’s the list as it stands this morning.