The Schedule
Every day of the last month for most of our family is summed up by the following repeating 3 to 4 hour cycle:
1.5 to 2 hours: Feed and diaper kids, try getting babies to sleep, prepare bottles for next feeding
1 to 2 hours: Try getting babies to sleep/Sleep. Give up on sleep. Eat. If it's late afternoon take babies for walk, maybe run errands, maybe shower (probably not).
Repeat.
Camy and I often skip the sleep parts.
Somedays, rather than sleeping, we went grocery shopping or to the pediatrician. We haven't taken many pictures. Our camera must have been over loaded from the first couple of weeks and died, so I bought a replacement this week.
The Budget
John and I each have accounting backgrounds, so we actually enjoy reviewing our Quicken records. This quarter's review brought out some sad stats. As noted above, I bought a camera. Over the last few weeks we've also brought home an ice cream maker, a mixer, a projector, speakers, cute sweaters for the girls..... anyway, we're going on a money diet.
John wants to cancel my cell phone ($850/yr.), but it is the only phone I have. Today I checked my phone records. In October I sent or received a total of 107 calls (including John), to or from 26 unique numbers (not including John). But this was a busy month with the twins birth and all. In September it was 70 calls and 14 numbers. August 63 calls and 16 numbers. These include doctor's offices confirming appointments, co-workers with work questions, and a few sales people. Sad, huh?
Every day of the last month for most of our family is summed up by the following repeating 3 to 4 hour cycle:
1.5 to 2 hours: Feed and diaper kids, try getting babies to sleep, prepare bottles for next feeding
1 to 2 hours: Try getting babies to sleep/Sleep. Give up on sleep. Eat. If it's late afternoon take babies for walk, maybe run errands, maybe shower (probably not).
Repeat.
Camy and I often skip the sleep parts.
Somedays, rather than sleeping, we went grocery shopping or to the pediatrician. We haven't taken many pictures. Our camera must have been over loaded from the first couple of weeks and died, so I bought a replacement this week.
The Budget
John and I each have accounting backgrounds, so we actually enjoy reviewing our Quicken records. This quarter's review brought out some sad stats. As noted above, I bought a camera. Over the last few weeks we've also brought home an ice cream maker, a mixer, a projector, speakers, cute sweaters for the girls..... anyway, we're going on a money diet.
John wants to cancel my cell phone ($850/yr.), but it is the only phone I have. Today I checked my phone records. In October I sent or received a total of 107 calls (including John), to or from 26 unique numbers (not including John). But this was a busy month with the twins birth and all. In September it was 70 calls and 14 numbers. August 63 calls and 16 numbers. These include doctor's offices confirming appointments, co-workers with work questions, and a few sales people. Sad, huh?
1 comment:
with babies I was convinced that I need a land phone for the 911 locator-i never use my land phone but was scared into getting one...passing the fear alone..
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