Yep…it’s official. Eric has definitely earned the Husband of the Year award this weekend.
Too late, I realized that Friday’s post probably sounded more depressed/down than it was meant to. But Eric stepped up anyway, in a big way.
He came home on Friday asking what exactly I wanted to get done for NLS’s arrival. And when did I want to start. Turns out, while I’ve been bugged by the lack of progress for her arrival, apparently I forgot to mention it to him. Or actually ask him to help me get started. Oops… So I made a list on Google Docs and shared it with him, so now we both know what exactly I want to get accomplished before the baby arrives. Lovely!
Then on Saturday, he was ready to jump right in. We moved dressers and rearranged furniture (okay, he did). We tore almost every room in the house apart to some degree and then slowly started putting it back together. Thankfully, my parents came up and helped some, too. SO nice of them. And by the end of Saturday, we had a place for NLS to sleep. We had the twins’ room modified as necessary. We had the great room rearranged so that there’s room now for a baby swing and baby toys in the near future. And we got to have dinner with my parents. And they took the twins for a walk after dinner which gave me time to clean up the kitchen, including sweep and swiffer the floors. And then, my mom helped me bathe the twins before they drove home.
Oh, and on top of all of that, Eric vacuumed multiple rooms in the house, entertained the twins at various moments, cleaned the master bathroom, and went and picked up the pizza for dinner.
See…husband of the year!
But it gets even better. Because on Sunday, he helped me make dinner. And helped entertain the twins (which took some doing as Alex was pretty cranky at times). And totally handled the evening/bedtime routine while I worked in the nursery at church for AWANA.
Seriously, the man is SuperDad. And I ended the weekend much more on top of things than I was at the beginning of the weekend…pretty much thanks to him. Love you, Eric!
Happy Monday!
(PS – Erin’s cold is getting better already…apparently, it’s a short-lived one, thankfully!)
September 13, 2010
Amazing job, Eric! Very cool that your parents helped out, too. I’m sure that it feels good to have so much accomplished.
September 13, 2010
I would agree he does deserve an award. That’s great that you got all of that done.
September 13, 2010
Oh, I can feel how refreshed and encouraged you are, through this post. I’m starting to get that same twitchy feeling about not being ready but there’s not much we can do about it just yet. I love it when our husbands come to the rescue and put our pregnant minds at ease about tasks we can’t do by ourselves anymore. Go, Eric!
September 13, 2010
So nice! It feels like I should get started when I hear how much you got done – I’m feeling behind now!
Glad to hear Erin’s cold is clearing up already, too! And I remember both of my kids going thru the Daddy phase, too… good and bad for Mommy. I remember loving that he got that same feeling I did for the first year or so, when only Mommy would do for most things. I know he felt a little left out during that time, a little second-best. I really loved the break, except when, as you mentioned, Daddy wasn’t around, and then being second best got just plain HARD! For my kids, it settled down within a few months, and then Daddy and Mommy were both good as gold again!