My philosophy on friends is the more the better; and if they volunteer to help you - let them! This is especially true if you have a new baby. More than needing help taking care of a new baby - it’s just nice having company, someone to talk to.
We had 2 really good friends who would come over quite often. Teresa would usually come over on her lunch hour. She was newly married and pregnant. She loved holding the boys and marveled at how tiny their fingers and toes were. I think, since she was “fixin’ to” (as we said in Texas) to have a baby herself - she just wanted to be around babies as much as possible. And, since I had 2 babies - one was always available to be held, etc. She, since then has gone on to have 3 kids (plus one from her husbands previous marriage) and is a great Mom to her 4 boys. I really loved when she would come over in the middle of the day and hold a baby while we ate lunch. It was always a nice way to break up the day.
Our other good friend, Jackie, was at our house all the time. She was wonderful before and after the boys were born. Before the boys were born, AJ (our affectionate name for her) would come over, bring movies and keep me company all day long. After the boys were born, she would do pretty much the same thing - except now she would also take care of one baby! This was wonderful, not only did I have company (an adult to talk to) - but also someone was taking care of one of the boys.
I did not, however, figure this “company/friend” thing out right away. I had this brilliant idea of what to do with all the greeting cards we received. They were so cute and I just hated to throw them all away; so, my brilliant idea was to make a large collage out of them. One day, I got them all together and sat myself down on the floor. I started going through them, organizing which ones looked good together and which ones I could throw away (duplicates for example - not a whole lot of different “Congratulations on your Twins” cards out there, I guess) and proceeded to cut out parts here and there and lay them out in a pattern.
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