Below are the most recent 3 friends' journal entries.

Tuesday, January 5th, 2010
yaffa	9:25a	I'd don't mean to brag... ...but hell yeah I'm going to!! After all, being a parent of multiples is hard, damn hard. But when a day comes along and you manage above and beyond what you ever expected, you deserve a pat on the back. And no one, other than another parent of multiples, will ever understand just how well deserved that self-congratulatory pat really is. It is a quarter past 9am and I have already managed to feed (bottle), feed breakfast (cheerios and cooked carrot, pumpkin, celery), bathe (while both were wide awake and incredibly cranky), feed (bottle), dress, and sweep the floor after breakfast. All this was achieved with, when starting out, no hot water, no clean bottles, no chosen outfits, and an overflowing baby garbage that had to be emptied before being usable (and after breakfast, a floor covered in cheerios, cooked carrot, pumpkin, and celery). It is a rare day indeed that I manage to bathe both girls totally on my own. Usually one sleeping baby at a time is involved. But to have started out with two wide awake and cranky, hungry children and end up with clean, dressed, fed, happy babies and a clean floor is quite an achievement indeed. Now to go and cut Eli's nails (who has recently learned, by the way, to wave hello like her sister, who also waves goodbye). (Comment on this)
Thursday, December 31st, 2009
yaffa	11:28p	Separation anxiety Tonight Shawn and I decided to go out, with the girls if necessary. There is a restaurant we have been meaning to try for a while but we go out so rarely these days (back in our child-free days we'd have a date night once a month or so) that we never seemed to make it there. But after looking at the menu today we saw it had a ton of options that would work for Shawn (ie, gluten-free) and for me of course, since it's a dairy restaurant. ( Read more... ) (Comment on this)
Saturday, December 26th, 2009
fifi225	5:19p	Christmas .... in the ICU? Why does the surgery waiting room have barneys coffee and the ICU waiting room doesn't even have hot water for tea? Also: What makes some nurses amazing and others obnoxious and stupid (No, please, DON'T give my father 3 more units of insulin, he already had his lantis and is not eating anything because he doesn't feel well). So let me back up. I came home on Wednesday and dad was still getting over the flu. Very tired, sleeping a lot etc. This was normal, or so Dr. Ryan (our family doctor) said when mom called him in a tizzy over the fact that dad still couldn't take a shower without getting tired. So Wednesday came and went- went to the doctor with mom, found out she has a right medial meniscal tear from falling at disney at mickey's not so scary, got my hair done, had dinner with wes- really, a pretty awesome day. Christmas eve rolls around and I run out to do some last ninute shopping at the mall with mom (because I'm insane) and we come home for a quiet evening at home. Dad is, you guessed it, still sleeping. So dad gets up about midnight and mom starts yelling at me that he "can't find his words" - turns out he's just being quiet becuase she's annoying him with all the asking of "are you ok?" so then about 3am, I'm sitting in the family room, working on finishing dad's present and we're talking...or rather, I'm talking, dad can't put a sentence together. I swear to God, I thought he was having a stroke. So I dragged him to the ER. We went down the list (the ER doc and I) of "what could this be" Top 5 suspects for me were: Dehydration, Hypoglycemia, Stroke, MI, hepatic encephalopathy. The doctor agreed. Imagine our surprise when his blood work came back and pointed to................kidney failure? Yeah, i have no idea. The doctor didn't see it comming either. So, at 5am dad was admitted to the ICU, he got dialysis at about 1:00pm yesterday afternoon and again at about 1:00 this afternoon. We have NO idea what caused dad's kidneys to "phone it in" as it were. But he seems to be feeling better. Doc says worse case scenario is that he has to do dialysis long term (be it a month, a year, or for the rest of his life) but really, when you come in thinking your father is having a stroke, "worst case" and "out patient procedure" are good words to hear together. His nephrologist says that he figures dad will probably be able to recover (he said 99.9% certenty that if we can get his kidneys started again, he'll be absolutely fine). This may not worry you people, but really, my dad's luck is like mine, and I got hit with anothter palm frond before my last final last friday...so...i'm a nervous girl till dad's kidneys start doing their damn job. Thanks for all the love, prayers and support. I really hope that all of you had a wonderful christmas. Please, appreciate your families. (Comment on this)