Girls' Day Out

Wish me luck, I'm going to the grocery store!  Just one store.  And chinese food--we've been craving chinese food for a month now.  The girls are coming too, so they can help push the cart, grab all the gallons of milk, load and unload the car, etc. 

Sometimes I remember how hard it used to be to be sick when they were toddlers.  I had to dress 'em, feed 'em, change 'em, go to the store, load 'em into the stroller, maybe push a cart while I was pulling a little red wagon at the same time (picture two baby car seats side by side, handles up, heart monitors looped over the handles, a two-year-old with a leash tied to the wagon handle, a diaper bag over my shoulder, and holding the five-year-old's hand), load the cart, load the car, and then unload the car and put it all away.  Sounds a bit challenging even for a healthy person who isn't trying to breath through a straw, now that I look back.

Everywhere I went, I used to hear the same thing:  'You sure have your hands full'. :)

Now I'm off on a tangent.  It's my tangent and I like it.  Funny things people say when you go out in public with four little girls.  I don't remember being particularly upset by any of it (even the nosy people), but some of it was funny.



Are you trying for a boy? (nope, not really)

Are they all yours? (yep)

Did you use fertility treatments? (nope, just married into a family with lots of twins and got lucky)

Does your husband want more? (actually, I'd talked him into three lol)

Are they twins/triplets/(and occasionally when seated) quadruplets?

Are you amish? (while we were all wearing shorts and t-shirts)

Isn't it a school day? (we're homeschoolers)

(From a very nice Asian man who barely spoke English) You go try for a boy now!

Do you know what causes pregnancy? (no, do you have pictures?)

(About the twins) Are they identical? (yes) Are they a boy and a girl? (dead silence)

And my personal favorite--you were smart to have them all so young (I was 35 when the twins were born)



Anyway (tangent over), yesterday I woke up with a bit of a sore throat and my nose started running again.  My ears are still popping from the infection from before.  Now I'm back on the prednisone, and antibiotics and sudafed. :(  I think I'll take two courses of the milder antibiotic this time.  Not to worry, my doctor had put me on this particular antibiotic for weeks and months at a time in the past. 

I'm not feeling too bad at the moment, but I'm going to have to try not to push it.  I was having fun yesterday playing the piano, and I totally cleaned out my fridge and four kitchen cupboards.  I need to remember to take more breaks and catch my breath.  The internet's great for that.

And I'm off to the store....