Our Saturday......

We had a good Saturday. 

It started early for me.....

....and even EARLIER for April!

This was the scene as I came in the door this morning in a place I have often referred to as 'Quadville!'

I cannot sing her praises loud enough!!!

April is a registered nurse who after all the education and training left the profession.

Disillusioned with the medical world, she became a nanny.

April is a direct answer to prayer!

My daughter in law, Leigh Ann, prayed specifically for God to send a nanny to help Amber with the quads.

After finishing out her last day back in December, she offered to live with Amber and Mike for two weeks starting with the night of Amber's surgery. Family Friend replaced nanny status!

She will be leaving to join her husband as he finishes his education at a college in East Texas.

But FIRST she is helping us!

Talk about a 'GOD thing!!' 

She is SUCH a blessing!

THIS was the picture I planned to post last night!

Tryston saying......"What do you MEAN my mommy isn't coming home today?"

April picked out special clothes for them! They were all dressed up!

Kailey and Granddad were hanging out!

I had baked special brownies......

but they kept her an extra day in the hospital!

So this morning we got the news!

Mommy was on her way HOME!!!

We took the babies OUT of their cribs and dressed them up AGAIN!

Now I didn't take pictures but believe me! They looked adorable!

I baked a delicious pound cake - thanks to my daughter, Summer, for the easy delicious recipe!

Popped another one of the meals Amber had prepared before her surgery into the crock pot -

Tortilla Soup - Mmmmmm - GOOD!

We were ready!

As soon as I heard the car pull up - whatever baby I was holding - I don't remember which one it was! -

and I walked out to meet them. She was HOME! WITH her babies all dressed and out in the den to greet her! After she saw them - which was GOOD MEDICINE - Mike helped her into bed and April and I rocked and put the babies down for their naps.

Mike heard me telling April how much I enjoy playing card games and came out of the bedroom to hand me two decks of playing cards!

I taught HER how to play NUTS!

SHE taught ME how to play SPEED!

It was a wonderful day!

The quads had their warm jammies on and were ready for their night bottles at 7:00 pm!

Amber's schedule works like a charm.

I truly believe she handles FOUR every bit as well as she could have handled ONE!

ONE would have kept the household in far greater turmoil than these four.

You simply MUST keep things even keeled when you deal with multiples.

I left after we fed them,  Mike read the bedtime stories and they were all snug in their beds.

I must continue to sing April's praises, though.

She had a phone call this afternoon that her father in law had been in an accident.

He was burning rubbish and a propane tank exploded and he was badly burned.

He was rushed by ambulance to the burn unit in Galveston.

Her husband was en route as he was telling her about it.

She heard later this evening her FIL was burned in his face.

That's all she knows.

Since she is a nurse she realizes how serious this is.

So while we are grateful Amber is at home and recovering - in PAIN, of course, but recovering - we are now praying  for Bob......