Scott's mom left yesterday evening, so the babymoon is officially over. It was wonderful having her with us – she's so supportive in every way. She prepared most of the meals for us every day for three weeks! For three weeks I mostly had my breakfasts in BED!

She helped the girls get ready for school and for bed. A retired grade school teacher, she helped them with their homework. She walked them to catch the bus. She drove them to school when they missed the bus. She helped create a (messy!) (labor intensive!) papier mache dragon for a 4th grader's book report. She deep cleaned a 15 year old's bedroom!

She consoled the baby when he seemed inconsolable. She almost got the puzzle done! She did laundry and dishes and packed school lunches and helped take care of the dogs and kept me company and just generally spoiled us ALL. I could go on and on and on.

I know this heavenly little interlude lasted longer than what most women get and that I'm lucky to have been so totally pampered for more than three weeks (not to mention the week before Jake's arrival!) . Everyone is sad, except Jake who doesn't know any better yet. HM and I both cried before falling asleep last night. We got so attached. And now we're so sad!

I don't know HOW we're going to manage this crazy household plus baby all by ourselves. Ackkkkkkkkkkkkkkk.

Thank you again for EVERYTHING, Karen – we miss you!! (Thank you to Ron, too, for letting us have her for so long.

French toast for breakfast

Packing school lunches

Hectic school morning

Grandma rocks the baby; mom gets some computering time

Off to school

Catching the middle school bus

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