Got Quads? You need the gift of sleep!

Remember how I told you a few months ago that I am a member of the Pampers Baby Board? Well, as they say, “membership has its privileges.” And one of the privileges of being a PBB member is that I get to do some cool stuff, like go to Pampers headquarters, help pick the package design for their new wipes coming out soon…and give away $500 to a deserving family. Let me explain!

The week before I joined the Pampers Baby Board last fall, I had read on my church message  boards about a couple in our church who had a toddler and was expecting QUADS! Wow! The request was that we gather together as a church to provide them with diapers. Since I am a super-coupon lady, I picked up several packs of diapers and dropped them at church. We have a big church and I didn’t know the couple, but of course I wanted to help out. The very next week I was invited to join the Pampers Baby Board, and the week after that, Pampers told me they had $500 to give me to give a family the “Gift of Sleep”. Of course I knew right away that I wanted the expectant quad family to get the Gift of Sleep – God is cool like that. One week I’ve never heard of these people, the next week, I’ve got $500 to give them!

Through the old church message boards, I got in touch with the friend of the family and she put me in touch with Crystal, the mama-to-be – who ended up having the babies the VERY NEXT DAY!!! – a few weeks early. She gave birth to 3 girls and a boy – Norah, Jane, Everett, and Ellie. They joined big sister Kate and dad Matt, as well. The babies were tiny but good fighters, and as of a couple of weeks ago they are ALL home together!

Aren’t they just beautiful!!? What a sweet family! Pampers was kind enough to let Matt and Crystal choose what the “Gift of Sleep” would mean to them – with 4 new babies, they had a lot of needs! And they decided that they’d sleep better at night knowing they had somewhere to put the massive amount of clothes and toys that come with four new babies. Sooo…thanks to Pampers, Matt and Crystal had me order them up some awesome storage from IKEA with the $500. And it worked out beautifully. See?

Of course, another thing that helps Crystal and Matt sleep is using Pampers Swaddlers to keep their babies dry LONGER – I have it on good authority that Swaddlers are the babies’ fave!

Life has been super crazy for Crystal and Matt since they welcomed their four newest bundles of joy in October, and I am so blessed that Pampers allowed me to be a part of helping them out with getting all their baby STUFF organized.

Thanks Crystal and Matt, for sharing your family with us! And thanks Pampers, for gifting this beautiFULL house with some much-needed storage for their “Gift of Sleep”!