If you did "everything"...

My husband is working nights this past month and we have yet another month to go. With him being gone overnight, makes me become super momma to the twins and furchild.

Some nights are better then others, just like trying to get twin 13 month olds to eat the chicken and not poke it to death or chuck it..some meals go better then others. Current lesson learned, adult fork is magic, they eat if fed by it!

So needless to say last night wasnt the best...my morning began with walking upstairs to find my husband and asking why he didnt come down an hour and a half ago like he said he would so I could maybe get two hours of sleep before he past out from working over night. I got well I didnt hear anything...
umm that is because we have a twin in our bed
-I thought you were asleep.
ummm, you said you would come get her at 4, so I COULD SLEEP
-well then go back to bed
ummm, they will be up soon and I need a sanity break i.e. shower, coffee and vent time.
-geez do I always have to do everything!
ummm, Im taking a shower and your going to our bed and dosing.

now what I wanted to say but know it will never make sence to thee husband.

if you did everything...

our house would be taken over by dust bunnies and dog fur.
you would still be living off of hot pockets, cans of soup and essures.
your undies would be falling apart, and or standing on their own due to dirt
you would never have coffee, milk, or anything in the fridge
our dog would never listen to you, chew everything, pee everywhere and run like a mad dog ALL the TIME
your children wouldnt be clean, dry, fed.
you wouldnt know where your keys were half the time

choosing my battles, Im choosing my battles...

I could keep going, but when it comes down to it, I love him dearly. I do darn it. Lack of sleep is a bitch, and it eats at you till your a nub.


I believe I will be enforcing the Mom needs a nap today however.

Happy Weekend (for us anyways).

Ahh, Mommahood.

Fall

As I poured myself a cup of coffee and stared out into the night of morning to watch the lights of Canada flicker across the water, I zoomed in on the funny balnace of seasons I had going on on my own window...here was a pumpkin spice candle glowing warmly, next to my sea shell and rock finds from my summer adventures...
The shift has begun to happen here. The weather is getting cooler, the rain is beginning to fall. Last night I dug out the fuzzy, plastic footed jammies for the ladies to wear. While they played on the floor last night before bed in those said jammies that is when it hit me, its nearly been a year....
Some would say its flow by, while others say its inched. Im not sure, all I know is my life has changed in more ways then one...two to be exact.

Ahh, Mommahood.

Finding my Momma Zen...

Holy Moley its been a month since I last posted! Where has the time gone?!? I've had so many ideas for posts and have started and stopped, started and stopped writing them for reasons that basically come down to life taking over. So today I committed to making at least one post happen.

Finding my Momma Zen happens during the day when its almost like a movie, life is going on around you and you freeze and are sometimes forced take it all in...here are a few of my favorite moments over the past week or so that remind me to breathe and take it all in...

I began this post in the early morning light, with the windows open, the cool air coming in, the coffee brewing, bottles prepped for the morning feed, the fur child settling under the table after coming in from the back yard in hopes that I will possible spill or better yet just give him my bowl of cereal. What he doesn't remember is that every morning when I'm done with my cereal and coffee, and have read a few blogs and gotten energized for my new day in my crazed world of twins mommahood, I set my bowl on the floor like a little oops! And you would of thought I gave him steak. Happens every morning bud, you would think by now you would remember...nope.

These are my mornings, before the craziness begins. Its almost like everything freezes and you take a deep breath in the nose and out the mouth. Now I'm not going to lie, some mornings, I just sit down with my cereal and the ladies begins to get pissy over the monitor. Some mornings the fur child forgets this wonderful routine of him and me having our QUIET mornings and goes a little nuts outside over a crow flying over the yard. But for the most part, I can squeeze if nothing else a few quiet minutes in the morning to watch the fog lift off the water, sipping liquid gold aka coffee.

This past week or two the ladies have become again so different. Kyndel has decided sitting is for babies and has become determined to crawl. While learning to crawl she has also picked up the nac of taking anything apart around her...piece by piece and to only stop if you say her name to then smile sweetly at you, wave and then go back to the task she has given herself.

Thee other little lady in my life is Ms Violet. She has always been the laid back twin of my two little ladies. Times must be changing though, she still seems happy where ever you sit her and play happily with toys around her..but give this lady a wooden spoon and she turns into a drummer. She will tap, pat pat, tap the dishes around her, with a gleam in her eye, a huge grin on her face and little giggles filling the air. This past week their crazy Momma decided to dig out shoes to see how big are their feet getting....

Who knew cute shoes would be all it took to get this little lady to come out of her shell? She hasnt had much interest in crawling, could care less in rolling around outside of her crib, but give a girl a cute pair of shoes and she stands(she MUST take after her Momma!)...and keeps standing when given the chance and you hold her hand. I keep telling myself I should be thankful though that she has no interest in taking any steps...because her sister is the crazy one the move currently. I like that Ms Violet and I can sit on the floor together and watch in amazement while Ms Kyndel rolls, crawls and takes apart anything in her path...now if we can get her to put things back together...

Last, there is the husband...Ive talked about the house, the fur child, the ladies..aww the husband. We have transitioned yet again to where he is working nights. So with this comes all the duties of being a single parent with a teammate coming and going when they can. Although I always seem to break down in the beginning of these transitions and he has to pick me up, dust me off and say you can do it, I would like to think that yes I can do it and a whole lot more. Its during these times when I feel like Im doing, going, thinking, planning beyond my normal bubble of energy. Picture the tazmanian devil and yep that is how I feel most days. But the times we are all here as a family I stop and take a moment to let it sink in how blessed we are and with that feel so recharged to keep going.

Last night is an awesome example of this because normally my husband would be working and he had the evening off. I was in the kitchen working on dinner, fur child laying in the middle of the floor so I have to step over him to get anywhere (again reminding me to drop something), and the husband and ladies where playing in the livingroom on the floor. I could hear Violet giggling and banging away on any surface near her, while Kyndel was inspecting a few low lying framed pictures on the entertainment center (mental noted to move). My husband was giving me the play by play when the ladies would do something different, or sing to what ever toddler song was playing on the TV radio station. He was half way done singing the hokey pokey when he changed his tune to 'come on Kyndel you can do it, come see Daddy'..."there you go you can do it!'....
As I stop what Im doing in the kitchen to peer into the livingroom I hear 'No! dont sit down and chew on the nose sucker!'....awww these are the zen moments only a mother can love....

Ahh, Mommahood.

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.