Nuggets my way...what Im thankful for this last week...

This awesome blog http://www.digthischickmt.com/ weekly posts nuggets.."hump day nuggets: little bits of the season in photos and words about the last week"...so Im going to attempt the same again. Yes I know its Sat. but its Tuesday at my house..for a little while longer. So lets dive in and yes I know there are no pictures, I still have to pull them off of my phone, camera and facebook, yuppers so you are free to imagine :)
(HAA! see considering I have been working on this for days, now there are pics too!).

1. I heart bbqs. I really do when it comes down to it, yep they are a lot of work esp with a couple of families, kids and dogs but I enjoy a full house...this past week we had a handful of bbqs with friends at our house. And I love this time of year. All the doors open, friends standing out on the deck, the warmth of the sun coming in.

I look forward to when the ladies can get into having company over to play with, chat with, just spent time with. Having them out in the backyard playing in the grass or picking me some "flowers" from my flowerbeds.

2. The power of floor time...the ladies love floor time. This week we have stepped it up a notch and seem to be spending as much time on the floor as possible. The ladies are beginning to babble to each other or in the direction of...but I noticed lately they are making eye contact with each other, smiling, waving and now saying Iiiii!

3. Routines....the ladies and I thrive on them. And I dont mean that this has to be set in stone. But they know what naptime is, bathtime, family couch time and I will hope because its been a good run so far...what bedtime is too. Neither lady can really talk yet, but you lay out their pjs and both will smile and begin to cuddle with you. And I kinda miss the cuddling, doesnt seem to happen as much as it use to, unless they are sleepy. But this past week we tried to do a couple family outtings during what would be considered bathtime...although they were happy campers leaving to go where we were headed in their PJs, and they were sleepy as went headed home...once home they were wide awake, like they had a coffee break without either the husband or I looking!

4. Pointing....ever see ET? Well Kyndel this week is all about pointing, we have went from pat pat to point poke...its extremely cute unless your changing her diaper and she is lightly poking you in the arm....buttttt we had our ET moment this morning during the first diaper change of the day, I held out my finger and she met it with her own and smiled with your I have only two teeth grin... and I was making a mental note to bring a camera next time...

they were talking to each other right before I took the pic...I swear!

5. Its all about the gab...yep you know we have twin girls every morning now days. 7am hits and they begin their conversation. Yesterday I went down to get them up and found my husband laying in bed just listening to them...we are not sure what it is they are talking about, but you can reconize words like Momma, Dada, Baba, Ga ga....and Violets favorites Wowwww, whoaaaaaaa... best way to start your day.


So I have to admit, I started this on our Monday (your Fri) and its now our Friday and Im finally ready to move this to posting...gah i tell you days fly here, some are good, some are long, some are loud, hair pulling, and filled with a few tears....but always have love woven in and out of every one....


Oh! and before I forget, I have to add this pic of last night...because you know sharing is caring....

Ms Violet is a master with sharing food with the fur-child...now if she would JUST feed herself I would be thrilled! baby steps...

Happy Friday (Tuesday) Mommas.

Ahh, Mommahood.

Down the Aisle...Happy Husband, Lovely Wife...

Three years ago this week I married the man above. We had already been together three years, I had just resigned from my teaching position I had held for 8 years,wrapped a new teaching cert. that required 15 credits of my time, sold my condo, helped move us into our first house three hours away and brought home an 8 week old fur child. 8 months of planning a wedding was woven into all the maddness as well. Walking hand and hand under sparklers I thought we could do anything, I was full of giggles and smiles at how wonderful the day had been. We were married on a little iland in front of 18 of our closest friends and family. It was perfect....even down to my wedding birks.

My husband gave me a card this past week for our anniversary and it sums up his feelings in a nice simple way, just like his macho front would like everyone to see...I know better.

"Lucky Husband, Lovely Wife, Had a wedding, Built a Life, Chased some Dreams, Caught a few..Here's to Making More come True...."

What is your down the Aisle Moment????





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Ahh, Mommahood.

Our Sundays...

So currently our Sundays here on the homestead would be everyone else's Thursday...So if your reading this and going Sunday what?!? Keep that in mind.

Nothing beats Sunday mornings, everyone is sleeping but me (shocking) and I get to enjoy a few quiet moments with the sun coming up and beginning to shine across the water, a nice hot cup of coffee, our fur child sleeping under the table and oh yea these awesome chocolate covered graham crackers HEHEHE....

I was reading a handful of my favorite blogs when one talked about Nuggets..see here:

http://www.digthischickmt.com/

Every Wednesday evening, yes your Wednesday, she posts a week long detail of what she is thankful for along with pictures. The pictures make me drool with want. I want to take pictures, and I do, but nothing that awesome and of course I have no way of getting the ones I do take off the camera onto the laptop yet unless you use my IPhone and well no.

Sooo I'm thinking I'm going to give it a shot...thankful moments from our week.

1. The ladies are babbling, and some days when its just the three of us plus fur child and they are babbling up a storm...there is a moment where you almost can imagine them talking to each other. And maybe they are, because I'm normally doing dishes when they do this...but I will look over at them, and there they sit or jump, Mamamamama-ing, Bbabababab-ing. Gagagag-ing, Dadadad-ing, Ohhhhhhhh, etc to their Sophies and hope hope hope to each other.

2. Violet rolls! well sorta. She began this week to finally roll from front to back. And I think yesterday if I would of let her she would of then rolled back to front. But she ran into me on the bed and her sister...she gets the biggest eyes when she does this...its almost like Holy crap what did I just do????

3. Kyndel stands!...with a little help..yes another shocking statement, our thrill seeker loves to stand. And I think its the sweetest thing, she waits every morning in her crib playing nicely while I dress her sister. then I will come over and get her...arms raise and I stand her up, she grabs the rail and looks over....I let go and she will stand and giggle up a storm...and I think she would stand there a good while if I let her...a few times though, the thrill seeker in her will let go, then she will fall back to sitting, then fall back to laying...and LAUGH. crazy kid.

4. The fur child seems to love floor time. He will be out discovering what ever he thinks is cool in the backyard, and when I get the ladies all set up in the playroom on the floor. you can hear him rounding the corner of the front deck and in he comes. He then quickly lays down next to their area...and we practice the PAT PAT....no not grab and pull....They love it and giggle giggle giggle...and he stretches out and I know enjoys the attention.

5. The husband fixed the water heater again! woot woot! So we have hot showers again...for the moment. And I now have to listen for a while, to him chant he is wonderful, you are married to a wonderful husband....yep.
I guess I will agree, of course I cannot tell him that :)


So there, my five thankful nuggets for the week.... What are yours??




Be an example...of good deeds of every kind. Let everything you do reflect your love of the truth.
~Titus 2:7TLB

Ahh, Mommahood.

Naptime Hostage...

As I type this, I'm a hostage of nap time. You see months ago I incorporated a nap time with the ladies. Its great because everyday we have downtime for a max of two hours. The three of us curl up on the guest bed and they snooze while I check the net, or sometimes snooze with them. As they've gotten older however, my snoozing has decreased a bit due to them beginning to roll. Don't get me wrong its SO cute to see them rolling on the bed and playing with each other and me. BUT when they finally fade into sleep land, I have a hard time anymore snoozing myself, or anything else that would take me out of the room.

I know, I know, I should take advantage of this down time, and I do, really I do. Me being me though I have a list of at least ten things in my head of what I should be doing while they are asleep and me rest time is very low on the list. I hear you veteran Mommas, I know PUT THEM IN THEIR CRIBS. I got it. For some reason I haven't been able too. Maybe I'm a sucker for a snuggle, maybe I know this time is limited, I just haven't been able to bring myself to conquer the hurdle...

I should, I got it. I admit the newbie mistake. Sooo the headstrong Momma that I am has given myself a goal, they will be napping in their own cribs by the end of the month. YUP. Please hold me to it :)

Ahh, Mommahood.

Crafts, Gifts and a Kid free Field Trip

So the other day the husband decided to take over the kiddos and give me a "Get Out of Jail Card"...which now thinking about it makes me worried because that would be two kid free outings now, so I have to wonder what kind of man day he is wanting. Ohh no, sneaky, very sneaky. Anyways I was free for the afternoon...have you ever tried to leave your house alone before noon? I swear it was like everyone and everything needed my attention as I was trying to get myself out the door in my don't touch kid free clothes.

Once on the road, I talked myself in to lunch (hmmm lunch with some peace and quiet), then off to my first stop. I have this idea that the ladies and I are going to be making the husbands birthday gift this year, YES I can hear the vetern moms laughing now, what is this newbie thinking!?!. I mean, I have kids, and I don't get out much anymore, so why not put them to work? This is my insane reasoning. Moving on my first couple of stops consisted of collecting items for this great kid friendly craft idea I pulled off another mom-blog site....does it work? looks like it from her pictures, however with having the twins instead of just one baby, I may need to call in back up to help. All I know is its going to be messy, and I hope I get some sort of product to give the husband, because if this is successful then I see a lot of these being made by the twins for Christmas gifts! Wanna know what the craft/possible awesome gift I am talking about, here is the link:

http://moderndaymoms.com/pudding-paint/

I will be posting pictures and how it went in the next couple of weeks. The husbands birthday isn't till the end of September, however I am learning that to depend on something going well you should probley have a back up plan. So I plan on having the ladies do this project soon (while we have some warmth outside, cause we are doing this OUTSIDE!) and see how it turns out. That way if it doesn't work, I have time to come up with a plan B.

The remaining part of my day consisted of taking myself into a clothing store. Holy cow it has been a long time since I wandered a store looking at clothing just for myself. I was totally overwhelmed, and after an hour and gathering a small collection of items I made myself leave. It was a dangerous situation to put myself in, I could of stayed there all day...and we do not have the funds to support that.. Seriously it was that fun, I couldn't help but giggle to myself as I found things, then I would look at it with these new eyes...

Thinking, yea they would totally stretch that out, oh puke, crap and pretty much anything they produce would so look awesome on that, crap I cannot go bra-less anymore, whoa is that a shirt or a dress?? either way I wouldn't be able to pick a kid up. I'm sure I was very entertaining to those around me as I giggled and muttered to myself while wandering, touching, ohhhh and ahhhh over things. But this Momma is SO going back, and darn I have things I need to return/exchange...yea I didn't see that coming, noo that wasn't planned at allll :)

As I drove home with my treasures and supplies, the radio off enjoying the silence, I wondered what the state of the house would be in, how the ladies were doing, whether or not the husband had remembered to let the dog out or let him back in... you know the little things..

When I walked in the door, I found however two very excited little ladies in their high chairs babbling away in a language we have yet to learn, a fur child circling around my legs (100 lbs mind you)waiting for me to stop so he could sit down and lean into me, and my wonderful husband aka super Dad, looking proud to show they are all still alive, doing fine, but really happy to have Momma back home..

Ahh, Mommahood.

This wasnt covered in the BABY classes....

Its during times like this since the ladies being in our world that I wonder would there be this much drama if there was only one??? My gut says yep there would be. The life change is still the same, the lifestyle you once knew, the routine, the personal time, the time spent with your spouse, the SLEEP, all changes. I dislike growing changes, esp. when it upsets my family.

The husband and I have been having ups and downs like you would in any marriage. However with babies in the picture, I think the ups and downs are more intense. I being the girl that I am find that as I get older I've grown to be more emotional. Shocking I know, I have wondered though if it has anything to do with my childhood and the lack of crying that I did then. I kept a lot of feelings about things to myself, you had too, it was survival in a sense. But that is a whole another path to discuss.

Once I met my husband and things began to get serious, the wall began to come down.. I became that talker of sorts, I have to talk things out now, I just cannot leave things alone. When I get frustrated esp when my thoughts and feelings are not coming out how I want, the tears come. I become a mess. I'm the pissed off, crying woman that is pacing in the corner, muttering to herself. Where does my husband fit in the mix you ask??? he is the safety net, my security blanket that comes in and wraps up around me and tell me to breathe and that it will be OK, that he's not going anywhere.

OK, so we took those child classes, you know the before you give birth here is a few key things you should know besides breathe and push...and they were helpful (besides making us feel extremely stupid at parts, and showing us that we were the oldest couple there), they gave us an idea to work with during birth, and the newborn stage and beyond...

However they didn't tell you the emotional toll its going to take on you and your loved ones. Maybe they did and we just missed the class. But reality is I don't think either of us were prepared for how it would effect our relationship as a couple. Again another shocking statement I know to those veteran mommas out there. Us newbies had no clue. I'm proud to say we have come together as a team to raising the ladies, I think you have to with twins or I imagine even just one baby. Communicating, breathing, a second to just give a hug or a simple I love You,I think is huge right now. And the husband and I are taking note of that...slowly.

Now though I think we are reaching a point in our marriage where we need the team effort in remembering there was an us before a all of us...baby steps.



Be an example...of good deeds of every kind. Let everything you do reflect your love of the truth.
~Titus 2:7TLB

Ahh, Mommahood.