Secret Language...

I've been told over and over that as the ladies grow up they will most likely have a twins language that they will only use with each other.
As if a switch turned on they are half way done with our 7th month and beginning to babble away. Most of the time they each seem to have their moment to babble alone, while their sister, parents and puppy listen in interest. During dinner time, the husband and I will have finsihed eating, which is normally the time both ladies will begin to babble together. Almost like they are talking to each other...however most of the time they are looking at the ceiling, window, floor, puppy, their hand...

My most favorite time is listening to them in the morning..The ladies babbling over the monitor, with me upstairs sitting at the time, doing a few last minute morning chores or getting a few sanity momma alone minutes with the heavenly coffee:) I bet their are saying something like "Momma we know you are upstairs drinking coffee and typing to your friends on facebook.. you need to get us up and dressed now."

Im already thinking 15 more minutes...ok, 20 more minutes :)


Ah Mommahood

Just Because...

Starting my weekend by introducing my ladies...



Here is the before, a long 39 weeks and two days...



And the after, meet my two ladies, Ms. Ky and Ms. Vi, 7 1/2 months old....



Yep I guess I will keep them, and maybe the gray hair that is beginning to come due to them too :)

Are we there yet?????

This is what it seems like most days now as my husbands work schedule winds down/up for shift change i.e. going from nights to days. It has been a long two months of having him working nights and this momma being it, numeral uno for the adult part of the house during the evenings, overnight and part of the morning....yea fun times being out numbered by the ladies and fur child. But to his credit there are many mornings my husband after going to bed about 4am, would then get up, help me get the ladies upstairs and even sometimes help feed them their first bottle of the day, then even have breakfast with me. Have you ever seen two sleep deprived people eat and talk in the morning??? Entertaining let me tell you.

So as we get close to having Dad back around the house, the next few days in getting there are going to suck ass! yep no two ways about it. We are facing a very long weekend that is backed to the beginning of day shift and has no real day off in between. Which means zombie dad and momma continues..... I just want to scream are we there yet?!??! I would like to get the ball rolling on having the husband "dad" being home in the evenings again. Because the good thing is HE IS HOME AT NIGHT, I have my teammate again in dealing with late night binkie whines, screams of why is she changing my diaper and what the hell is going on in my face, why does it hurt???

Which is all awesome to have my better half to tag 'your it' for things. But the down side is having to adjust to having him back...we have our routine, the way we do things, and now we have to factor another person back in. Its funny, when it was just the fur child and I and my husband would shift change, it took us a few days to get use to having him back. Not sure why it always seems like you have to adjust to having him back, but you do. Its like your re-introducing yourself to this person who has knows you better than anyone else. And since having kids with, he is the one who has seen and helped you with things no one else would have...esp while pregnant and I was unable to see feet, legs, left or right side of my body.

So I'm gearing up for this last push to get my little family of five back together...not sure how cheerful I will be come Monday (thankfully I have beer in the fridge to help) and the husband is officially back to working during the day, but I know my home will feel more complete.


ahh mommahood

Its 5 o clock somewhere...

Before having kids did you ever say I will not be one of those Mommas??
In my momma induced brain, I believe I have a time or two...boy was I stupid. Now granted I didn't know any better, I mean how can you until you have completed nine months of the most oddest, coolest, sometimes uncomfortable and hellish experience known as pregnancy and be given one or in my case two screaming but cute babies that you can take home.

It has gotten easier since the ladies have been home. I don't know if it helps that as each month goes by my husband and I get a little wiser and don't look like total dumb asses now in public...but I can admit here and only here, there are points in this crazy parenting thing thus far that seem to get a tad easier as the ladies grow up (why do I have a feeling Im being a dumb ass again?). I personally do not miss the newborn phase, only because feeding two every two hours and they were not together meant every hour feeding...and you were having to feed a bobble headed baby.

One major lesson I have learned so far, is when your by yourself and need a moment to regroup, esp now that the ladies are teething....having a beer isn't the worse choice to make. So Ive become one of those Mommas. YEP. I have one beer on the nights I'm alone with the ladies...seems to always fall into the time of the feeding right before the baths and bed. And boy does it help get me over the hump and into the right frame of mind to get the day done. We all seem more relaxed. Happy Momma = Happy Kids.

Ahh Mommahood :)

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.