Mommas Unite...

Now maybe its because I was able to get a solid 6-7 hours of sleep (thank you amazing husband, I knew I married you for a reason) or possibly its because I am having fabulous chocolate chip cookies with my coffee this morning...but I have been amazed twice this week in how Mommas come together when one of us needs the support.

I belong to a insanely addicting online mom group...I'm online as much as possible while dealing with daily duties of keeping up a house, husband, fur child, and oh yeah raising the twin ladies who are currently 7 months old. The online group is so addicting, there are times I wish I could do no more then stay online with them all day/night. So as a compromise, I have the laptop on all day with the group page open, and when I walk by it, I check, post, comment, read, cry, shake my head, smile, but mostly laugh out loud. I have become so close to these women, I find myself to be more honest and open with them than I have with some of my friends I see in person.


I'm also lucky to have found via a friend who lives on the east coast, a momma group that has members of mommas from all over my area and or who have lived in the area. I got a crazy idea one night that I wanted to send out an email to the group asking if any of them would want to meet on a weekly basis and start walking with the goal to eventually jog...now I have had that idea in my head for a good month, and it was just sitting there looking at me, saying get off your lazy scared ass and post me, you will never know what will happen if you don't try. Soooo I did, and I was extremely nervous afterwards to the point of wanting to hid in the closet with clothes on my head so no one would see me...however my children didn't understand why their Momma was looking at the closet with new interest...

I received about 6-8 emails back so far from fellow Mommas in the area. All agreeing with me that we should get together to push and support one another in improving our health. So now I have the task of picking our first day to meet and where....I'm still in awe at the excitement they all have. Mommas on the Move is born :)

These two recent examples of Mommas uniting have made me love even more the sisterhood I have become apart of and this title of Momma I now own...

ahh Mommahood.

Ahh Summer mornings....

Have you finally discovered us here in the Olympic Peninsula????

I truly enjoy my early morning alone time where I can sit here at my dining table and watch the sun begin to shine in the windows and across the water...such an awesome site and good way to start the morning. All while enjoying my cereal and cup a coffee. However..............having to chug ones coffee because she hears her babies waking, gets up to fast to check on them and in the process has her coffee almost come out her nose...not a pretty site.

Ahh MommaHood :)

Monsters...

I think every Momma can say at some point whether its during the day, week, month of even few minutes, she reaches her limit. She needs a time out.
Well I think today has been my day. Seems like I cannot shake the annoying monster that brings me down from time to time, that stresses me out, that causes me to want to argue with my husband just because I know he will want to fit it and can't...
There are no quick fixes, just deep breathes and listening to your inner voice that says you will get through this again, nothing is in stone. The ladies need you to put on a smile no matter how tired and burnt out you are. Your a Momma enough said.

The Jig is up...

The other morning I was feeding the ladies and chatting with the husband while he made coffee. We were talking about all the little things we took for granted before we had kids...sleeping it, having coffee when you want, watching a TV show at any time of day that your home, going places just because we can...the list goes on. Not that we would trade the ladies for anything, because it was a long and painful road to just have the opportunity to just have them. But I assume any new parents comes to the realization of remember when.

Well while we were remembering and laughing, my husband then says is that why you spend a long time in the bathroom sometimes taking a shower??? and I look at him like what????? He says well you seem to take a while when taking a shower now, not as long as before we had the ladies but pretty long. I've wondered what you could be doing. how long does it take to dry your hair?????'

I look at him with I have no idea what your talking about, I hurry in the shower, I don't take my time and wonder what else I could do because I know once I leave the bathroom I'm back on duty...no not me....

And as he begins to piece things together, I scoot into the kitchen to clean up from the morning breakfast....not sure what he is thinking now, but until then this momma is going to have to take the small moments to hang up her super momma cape and breathe where she can.

You know your a Momma when...

Your enjoying the few quiet minutes in the morning with coffee and you hear your kids sqeek over the baby monitor...and you go to their room to find them asleep; so you begin to do the happy dance while backing out of their room, because you know you may have another few minutes of you time :)

Happy Sunday Mommas

Teething Monster turns into the Tooth Fairy?? WTH!

Once again one of our little ladies decided that from 1am on she wasn't comfortable with the idea of sleeping. She tossed, turned and whined to the point that my very tired husband was pleading with her at 415 this morning to just go to sleep. Needless to say I got up at 5 and with a little Momma Magic (aka rubbing of head, blankie in right spot) she went to sleep. However the jury is still out to how long, she woke again at 615, due to our smoker detector. Thank you smoke detector for deciding to tell me our battery is low this morning....

Not only did you wake one of my sleeping children, but you scared the crap out of my fur child to the point of him still hiding in the bathroom, again thank you. At any rate with a quick binkie fix and a yanking of said smoke detector, all is currently quiet. I'm now waiting for my other little lady or Twin B to wake up and be ready to roll because its going to be one of those days..

Which leads me to wonder is my little one waking due to teething? or just to toy with us??? Because she is quite happy during the day, no fuss unless hungry,has a dirty diaper or her twin has whacked her one to many times. I stick my finger in her mouth and feel around, nothing. I look when she is in the mood to let me, and again I see nothing. However I'm trying to remind myself that maybe this is not going to be a nightly thing, and if it is for a while then I should be glad that it isn't both little ladies right? Or should I want them both to go down this teething road together and we can all bond as a family in the wee hours of the morning...

All I know is if this is what is going to be known in our house as the ladies teething, I would like to kick the teething monster in the balls and tell off the tooth fairy. Because I think they are working together.

Unconscious

Yep that was the night before last times ten...okay who are we kidding, that happens nearly every night at least once and when they were newborn I think that happened wht...every hour????. Now with that being said, my husband currently comes home from work about 2am. When he gets home he never comes straight to bed, normally he will stay up for a bit and get some Dad alone time i.e. computer, ice cream, maybe a man movie. But I also know that he will listen for the ladies and take over if they wake so that I can get an hour or two of sleep.

Well like most mornings in true Momma fashion I'm up before anyone else and I'm getting myself together and it hits me....did the ladies wake at all last night???? I think they did once or twice, or was that the night before last? I got up right? didn't I? Its mornings like this you know you slept hard, but it still freaks me out that I can't remember if what happen was truly the night before or a few nights ago. Its becoming a blur of unconscious events! Thankfully though the ladies will not remember me stumbling into their room at the wee hours because they whined or needed some binkie help, because it so happens neither do I.


Ahh the joys of Mommahood.