Having Rowan around brings about all sorts of day to day challenges. For instance: for such a tiny baby, he sure does generate a lot of laundry. Every time we get his diaper off, he feels the need to pee. This generates a dirty outfit, a dirty washcloth (which we use pre-emptively to prevent the pee from reaching great heights), a dirty changing pad cover, sometimes a dirty shirt for whoever is actually changing the diaper...the list could go on. One load of laundry a day is what we're averaging, and that's just for our 7 pound family member! Yikes.
Anyway, I say all this to say help is truly appreciated. We're so thrilled that my mom decided she had been away from Rowan for far too long already, so she and Dad made a trip up here Saturday. It was Papa's first time meeting Rowan. Aren't they a handsome group?
And then there was the Great Skylight Problem. See, our great room has two skylights. These are certainly a nice feature of the home, but frankly the blinding light and intense heat that come through the skylights in midday render the living room useless for someone like myself whose eyes are quite sensitive to light. While this problem had been a nuisance for me, it became more of a huge problem once Rowan arrived. His eyes are so sensitive, there were hours in the day when I couldn't even walk with him through the great room without him crying and wincing from the bright light. It was awful, and yesterday afternoon I hit a breaking point about it. I had devised a way to cover the skylights, but in the middle of attempting to apply this covering we realized our ladder wasn't tall enough for the job. I subjected Tom to a mild meltdown on my part, at which point he suggested I call Don and Mary, our dear friends who own a roofing business. They came to our rescue with a plenty tall ladder, and today I basked in the great room at 2:00pm when normally it would have been so bright that I would have needed sunglasses to be there. Thank God for help!
