Changing of the guard

So the in-law's have left and now my parents are in town. For a few hours today, all four grandparents were in the house. Lucky Tobey-n-Eli. I don't think either me nor Tom grew up with all four grandparents, especially ones who were this mobile and involved.

Actually, having all four around was great because they entertained each other. Tom's mom gave my mom the complete low down on Tobey's schedule and recent happenings as well as the current status of the fridge so I didn't have to say a thing. I consider it a great blessing that they get along so well (too well? We wonder what they were talking about in the car on the way to dinner tonight...). I'm confident that if they lived in the same metro area, they would have been friends and Tom and I would have grown up as family friends instead of eventually husband and wife.

It makes me think of Eric & CC who had both sets of parents "helping" when they had their first. Granted they had a big enough house but too many cooks? Today's phenomenon of self-entertaining parents and in-laws made me wonder: for number three, if we had a big enough house, would we be crazy enough to have both sets of parents around to help? That way, maybe my mom would take care of me, Tom's mom take care of the older kids, I get some food that I'm used to and I don't have to feel like I have to entertain anyone.

Or, I'm seriously considering hiring a post-partum doula for number three and everyone can just come for day visits. :-)