Erin's Epiphanies: The Twins’ Shower

I seriously have the best group of friends ever on the face of the planet. Since I’m not getting out a whole lot, just me and Collin, anymore, I’ve had more people come to me and Collin :) Last week I asked Sarah, Brittany, and Ashley to bring the kids over for a play date and just get some adult conversation and interaction. Little did I know what they had been plotting.

I took them upstairs to see the wreck of a loft area and the twins unfinished nursery. Brittany saw boxes of clothes and said “OOH! Let’s have some fun and sort these!” If you don’t know Brittany, cleaning and organizing is her thing. A good comparison would be Monica from FRIENDS. She hosts a party at her house and when you ask to what you can do to help her, she says, “Are you kidding me? You had your party, now I get to have mine!” So these three lovely ladies took over my house last week. They organized my loft: separated things that needed to go into the attic, baby items, boxed and labeled Collin’s old clothes, toys, cleaned the bathroom, vacuumed and just made the upstairs livable. Downstairs, Sarah cleaned out our refrigerator. (Talk about embarrassing!) When I say cleaned out, I mean took everything out and wiped the shelves and drawers and tossed what needed to be tossed and then did the dishes. Before they left I had a very clean house. And as they left, said, “we’ll finish when we come back next week.” NEXT WEEK?!

Next week meant the shower! I have to admit, that the girls in our Sunday School class somehow manage to outdo themselves each time another shower is thrown. (A little unspoken friendly competition perhaps???? ;) ) I didn’t think that Brittany and Ashley could top what they did for me at Collin’s shower, but they did. With the help of Sarah and Angela this time. Ashley and Angela made some awesome food, Sarah’s cup cakes ~adorable!!!~ and Brittany and Sarah’s decorations, too cute for words. The shower was at my house after church on Sunday afternoon. But I wasn’t allowed to be at my own house for several hours? Yeah, they kicked me, Devin, Collin and my mom and brother out of the house for a little more than two hours between the time we got back from church and the time the shower started at 3:00.

Bradley took Collin to his house for the afternoon and a nap, well, what turned out to be a 20 minute power nap for the car ride. (Sorry about that Brudder!) I really don’t have words to describe how I felt that afternoon, other than blessed and loved. All these ladies bringing us diapers, clothes, and all kinds of baby goodies for a second/third time. After all the fun and shenanigans were over and most everyone had left the girls went into attack mode. You never would have known there was a party of 20+ ladies at my house. And you would really never know that any gifts were involved. In addition to cleaning everything up, again, they took all the loot upstairs to the babies’ room and helped unload and organize it. Tags came off clothes and were ready to be washed. “Necessities” were placed in drawers and the closet and drawers organized as best as could be at that time. (I promise in the next few days I’ll get a post of the nursery. It’s SO CLOSE to being complete it’s scary!)