Thank God for Moms!

I have been incredibly blessed and spoiled to not only have Jared home with me for the first 2 weeks of Tate's life, but also to have my mom here.  She arrived on Tate's birthday in the afternoon to Milwaukee and drove up to Appleton just as Tucker was arriving at the hospital with Gramma Lauri to meet Tate.  She then took Tucker back to our house and stayed with him there the two nights we were at the hospital.

My mom helped us out tons by cooking, grocery shopping, doing countless loads of laundry, cleaning, and so much more.  Probably the best thing she did for us was get up with Tucker every morning.  Tucker is an early riser (usually around 6-6:30) and she got up with him every day for the last two weeks, allowing Jared and I to catch a couple more hours of much needed sleep.

Another fantastic thing my very talented mom did was sew curtains for Tate's room and for our dining room.  She'd always wanted to make curtains for the new baby's room but we needed to know the gender of the baby first before she could do this.  And then our dining room has 2 huge windows that have had nothing covering them since we moved in almost 4 years ago (we recently just got a new neighbor next door for the first time and our tv glares through the dining room into his house, I'm sure he appreciates our new curtains as well).  My mom found an idea online to make roman shades from mini blinds and she started crafting away.  Here are the new curtains:

Another thing my mom and I (and Jared, but don't tell him that I told you) did was get very hooked on the PBS show, Downton Abbey.  We watched 1-2 episodes every night and did everything we could to make sure we got our hands on all the discs from all 3 episodes and pushed to finish them before she left.  Needless to say, we loved this show and are looking forward to season 4 starting up again.

Thank you Mom for being here! We loved it and are so appreciative of everything you did for us!!