Living as a single parent and getting interviewed for TV

I have a whole lot more respect now for people who have to live as single parents. Rachelle has been gone about 9 days now and Riley and I are still alive. In the past, I have gone a week or so without Rachelle but in all those other cases, I always knew that it would be over in a week or so. Without knowing that, it is much more difficult. Rachelle, with her Masters Degree in Statistics, normally takes care of doing things like paying the bills, doing the shopping, and pretty much keeping things in order. I only have a batchelors degree in Engineering so I don't normally mess with that stuff. Now, I have to mess with it or bad things will happen. So far, however, it is going well and we are OK. There have been a lot of nice people that have had us over for dinner. I even saw Riley eat some vegatables yesterday thanks to our friend Kim Krenzer. Others have been really nice and I am very grateful.

On Friday of last week, someone from the local news station (News 8 Austin) came and intereviewed Riley and me. It was a funny experience because I am actually more used to being on the other side of the camera. The interview went pretty well I guess. Riley's interview was funny. He responded to the questions he was asked by mostly nodding his head and occasionally saying a very quiet "yes". Head nodding and short "yes" answers don't work very well when the person asking the question doesn't have the microphone. However, after some tickling and prodding, he did end up saying that he thought having these babies "Would be like school except less people." I thought that was probably pretty accurate. He could have also said that it would be like school except there would be less people, most of those people would be little babies, and there wouldn't be big yellow busses in the driveway...they would (hopefully) be A-team colored busses (or just one A-Team colored bus). If you want to check it out, I linked to the story here: News 8 story.

Something else I wanted to mention here is that we also added a bunch of new stuff on the "how to help" page here. The new things we added are a way to donate funds and a list of things we think we will need like plane tickets to Arizona and stuff for 5 babies.

Thanks again for all your prayers and support. I still get emails from many people telling us they are praying for us and I am very grateful for that. Thank you.