All was quiet

The girls are in bed sleeping soundly. I'm so happy to have a few minutes to post on here. I tried to earlier, but blogger must have been having problems and I lost my post two times!

My brother came through his surgery well. He is still pretty sedated, but he knows something is wrong because he can't feel his legs. It breaks my heart because he will wake up and pat his legs and then give me this terrible look because he doesn't understand what is wrong. The doctors asked us not to talk to him about it because they wanted him to concentrate on healing. You never think anything like this is going to happen to your family. It could happen to anyone.

We are doing well with the babies. We had no time to prepare and with everything else going on we are feeling a little overwhelmed. I have to get time to clean out our spare bedroom so we can turn it into the nursery. My amazing friend Goobergirl brought us a lasagna, salad, and bread this morning. We haven't had time to eat, let alone cook. I have lost 5 pounds since they got here on Tuesday. We had a serving of the lasagna for lunch and it was like heaven. I appreciate everything our families and friends have done for us the last few days, but I think that is the one thing that has meant the most. It made for a great dinner tonight too!

Its starting to look more and more like this will be a long term if not permanent situation. Social services (we call it SRS here) is preparing the necessary paperwork to put the girls in custody but I don't know if that will have to happen. If my sister and her husband agree legally to let the girls stay with us, they won't have to go into custody of the state.

Goobergirl also brought me a copy of "What to Expect the First Year." I'm going to peruse it while we watch an old movie called "Murder by Death."