Its rainy day number 2 here. What a difference between yesterday and today though. Its dreary and dark outside, and yesterday the weather fit my mood. Today I'm like a whole different person. I like today better. Yesterday, nobody had slept well and all the children woke up too early. And when I say too early, I don't just mean too early for me. I mean too early for them. Waking up too early = cranky, tired kids way too early in the day. Add to that a messy house because I was sooo tired the night before that I barely cleaned up at the end of the day and just little things here and there and you get me in a bad mood. On top of that, some more bad news came for a good friend of ours yesterday. I'm not going to go into detail on here, other than to ask for prayers for her. She's going through a really difficult time right now and I'm really worried about how this is all going to affect her and her family in the long term. Its a sad and complicated situation and there's nothing we can do other than to offer our support and prayers. :(
On the bright side. I used part of naptime today to look up Christmas cookie recipes. Yummmmm. I love baking Christmas cookies and this year I'm going to my parents for a few days after Thanksgiving so that Mom and I can bake together. Because lets face it, I'm not going to have the time to make more than one batch on my own this year! But hey, I did make chocolate chip cookies with my Bug the other day. Its a funny story actually. See, before I started dating my hubby I used to make him chocolate chip cookies all the time. It was really just an excuse to go visit him and put a smile on his face. I used to say I was making the cookies for him and all of his roommates...but really, it was just him. He had to know, but then again, neither one of us was very good at seeing how OBVIOUS it was that we liked each other :) Anyway, I continued making chocolate chip cookies for him for a few years after we got together but for whatever reason my batter started turning out thin and the cookies would fall apart. So I gave up on that particular cookie and stopped making them. Apparently he's been pining for chocolate chip cookies ever since. Haha! He guilted me into making them again (it was good-natured guilting) and for whatever reason, they turned out really good this time! And now I have to keep myself from making them too often because oh man, are they good. And addicting!
Ok...baby up. Make that two babies. And another abruptly ended post. But I figure hey, its better than no posting at all, right?? Happy rainy Wednesday!
Wednesday, November 16, 2011
Sunday, November 13, 2011
Too fast
I lowered their cribs. They are standing all the time and I am pretty sure they could have fallen out if I'd left them the way they were. I actually lowered Punkin's crib last week, but I just did Peanut's this afternoon. They're growing up. Too fast. Why do babies always grow up so fast? I love watching them grow and change but at the same time...these are my babies!! Sniff, sniff.
And now I have to go tend to the little girl that just fell. Again. She's okay, just scared herself. But she needs her momma to tell her she's okay :)
And now I have to go tend to the little girl that just fell. Again. She's okay, just scared herself. But she needs her momma to tell her she's okay :)
Friday, November 11, 2011
Friday Night Excitement
Ok, I have to admit that this is a bit ridiculous. August. August was the last time I blogged. Its November. Wow. I have no good excuse, other than everytime I have some "downtime" I always feel like I should be "productive" instead of indulging my own little hobbies. So I do truly exciting things like dishes and laundry and pay bills. Ah, the life I lead. Oh yeah, plus my babies have had a cold for like a month or more, and therefore have been sleeping like crap. My formerly awesome sleepers disappeared. To the point that we've had to resort to sleep training. Which I always hate. But I have to admit, at least for bedtime, these two have been a lot easier than their big brother was. So far anyway. Of course we haven't tackled naps yet. Which have become like 25 minutes most times. On a good day I might get an hour out of one of them. If I'm lucky. Yep, these are the babies that used to take a reliable 2-3 hour nap every single day. I miss those good nappers...
But back to the point. Its Friday night and the hubby is out harvesting. Oh yes, we're still harvesting. When you don't start until, oh heck, I don't even know when we started...late anyway...then its not so surprising to not be finished in early November. But it seems most other people aren't finished either so there's that at least. But I don't even want to think about how long this harvest will go. Lets not talk about that and the thought of barely seeing my husband until sometime in December. Sigh. So, here I am and luckily all the kids were asleep by 7:30. Which never happens. But the big one didn't take a nap today so if I hadn't been in the middle of feeding the little two their dinner, he honestly would have been willing to go to bed at about 5:30 if I'd let him. I'm halfheartedly folding laundry and I really should be working on a grocery list. But I'm not. Because I miss you all! I miss blogging, I miss putting my random thoughts out there, documenting my little ones' achievements, especially the little things that wouldn't go in a babybook necessarily but that I want to remember. I miss reading what's going on in all my bloggy friends' lives and I miss updating you all on my mundane little life. Having an outlet both for the funny little things in life and the frustrating things. I wish I could find the time to write more often but I have yet to figure out how. There's a lot I have yet to figure out how to fit into my "new" life. I have a decent handle on everyday life and I will say that I still think twins are not as hard as people think they are. In my opinion, they seem a lot harder when they're someone else's. Of course I may think differently at some point in the future, but for now, that's the way I see it. I think a lot of it is, as I've told so many people...I don't know any different. Sure, I know what its like to have only 1 kid but I don't know what it would be like to have multiple singletons. I know how to have 1 kid and I know how to have 3 kids, that's all. I honestly look at my friends who have 3 kids the "normal" way, you know, all different ages? And I think that would be so much harder! Weird, right? But as I told a friend today, with twins you can sort of "miniature assembly line" them. Change one, change the other. Feed one, feed the other. Two babies, one bowl of food. They share a lot of things. Ok, basically everything. Except for Peanut's pink clothes. But she's dressed like a boy pretty often because, well, we have a ton of boy clothes and well, why not??? But back to the feeding. Did I mention they're awesome eaters? Anyone remember what a horrible eater Bug was? HORRIBLE. I had to trick him to get any purees of any sort in him. And even then, it wasn't anywhere near enough. To this day, he refuses to eat anything that resembles a puree. Looking back, I say he had to have had silent reflux. Poor kid. But these two are medicated for their reflux, lucky for them and lucky for me. And they LOVE them some food. Mmmmm, mmmmm, mmmmm. Its awesome.
Ok....this is pathetic. But its 9:45 and I'm nodding off. So in an effort to at least get something, anything, posted...I'll call this good enough and say we'll see if I find a way to get back here more often!!
But back to the point. Its Friday night and the hubby is out harvesting. Oh yes, we're still harvesting. When you don't start until, oh heck, I don't even know when we started...late anyway...then its not so surprising to not be finished in early November. But it seems most other people aren't finished either so there's that at least. But I don't even want to think about how long this harvest will go. Lets not talk about that and the thought of barely seeing my husband until sometime in December. Sigh. So, here I am and luckily all the kids were asleep by 7:30. Which never happens. But the big one didn't take a nap today so if I hadn't been in the middle of feeding the little two their dinner, he honestly would have been willing to go to bed at about 5:30 if I'd let him. I'm halfheartedly folding laundry and I really should be working on a grocery list. But I'm not. Because I miss you all! I miss blogging, I miss putting my random thoughts out there, documenting my little ones' achievements, especially the little things that wouldn't go in a babybook necessarily but that I want to remember. I miss reading what's going on in all my bloggy friends' lives and I miss updating you all on my mundane little life. Having an outlet both for the funny little things in life and the frustrating things. I wish I could find the time to write more often but I have yet to figure out how. There's a lot I have yet to figure out how to fit into my "new" life. I have a decent handle on everyday life and I will say that I still think twins are not as hard as people think they are. In my opinion, they seem a lot harder when they're someone else's. Of course I may think differently at some point in the future, but for now, that's the way I see it. I think a lot of it is, as I've told so many people...I don't know any different. Sure, I know what its like to have only 1 kid but I don't know what it would be like to have multiple singletons. I know how to have 1 kid and I know how to have 3 kids, that's all. I honestly look at my friends who have 3 kids the "normal" way, you know, all different ages? And I think that would be so much harder! Weird, right? But as I told a friend today, with twins you can sort of "miniature assembly line" them. Change one, change the other. Feed one, feed the other. Two babies, one bowl of food. They share a lot of things. Ok, basically everything. Except for Peanut's pink clothes. But she's dressed like a boy pretty often because, well, we have a ton of boy clothes and well, why not??? But back to the feeding. Did I mention they're awesome eaters? Anyone remember what a horrible eater Bug was? HORRIBLE. I had to trick him to get any purees of any sort in him. And even then, it wasn't anywhere near enough. To this day, he refuses to eat anything that resembles a puree. Looking back, I say he had to have had silent reflux. Poor kid. But these two are medicated for their reflux, lucky for them and lucky for me. And they LOVE them some food. Mmmmm, mmmmm, mmmmm. Its awesome.
Ok....this is pathetic. But its 9:45 and I'm nodding off. So in an effort to at least get something, anything, posted...I'll call this good enough and say we'll see if I find a way to get back here more often!!
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)