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!!