Showing posts with label motherhood. Show all posts
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Monday, August 8, 2011

It's A Twin Thing


I am in a deep sleep with my ear plugs in last night, it's 2 a.m. and I hear a slight sound of one of the boys crying and as Ken checks on them, I hear Ken's muffled voice telling me something. Thinking he just said "I'll check on them" I snuggle back into my blankets, thanking god for a great husband. Then... I hear another muffled sound from Ken, pull out my earplugs and hear the dreaded words "Christian got sick". Clearing the cobwebs out of my head, my body kicks into overdrive as any mom does and sprint upstairs, thinking Oh Lord, here we go.

The crazy part of this was they literally woke up and got sick about a 5 minutes apart. Usually, it is one then the other a few hours or a day apart but never simultaneously. It felt like one of those "Twin Moments".

We have 2 floors so it seemed like NOTHING was upstairs that I needed and I was running up and down for 15 minutes trying to figure out where do I even start cleaning. I kept forgetting to grab all the needed supplies: their clothes, extra bucket, paper towels, towels, Clorox, Lysol, medicine, crackers, water, and a thermometer. Good god it seemed like I was running a marathon. This time the boys knew the game plan- bath, bucket, watch TV for a few minutes, crackers then medicine and back to bed. I, on the other hand seemed off my game and it felt like an eternity to get it cleaned up.

Each time this has happened at night (during the daytime it doesn't bother me) I can never rest my mind or fall back asleep for a hour or two because I listen to make sure they are okay, worry about them, start getting anxious that Ken and I will get it. I want to discuss the whole thing with Ken "Do you think it was something they ate? Do you think it was because I took them to the gym? Do you think that was why Nicolas didn't eat well? What if we all get sick at the same time"? Knowingly, I am not going to get answers and knowingly Ken is probably not listening since he is snoring away, I still have this incredible weird need to verbalize all my thoughts.

As I finally drifted back to a blissful snooze around 4:45 a.m. Christian woke up just to tell me he "Didn't get sick". Hooray! Then he proceeded to chat up a storm for about 20 minutes. I love the extra snuggles, love that he isn't calling me because he is sick, I just wish it wasn't 4:45 am!! Finally, I started thinking.." So glad you didn't barf buddy but please don't wake me up to tell be about it"!! because you never know what will be next when you have sick kids or when your next moment of sleep will be. I actually just put them down for a morning nap because they were getting cranky as all hell. They must be feeling a little better because they were arguing and Nicolas got mad and said "Christian, your toe is not tall"! Mention anything about not being tall like daddy and it really pisses him off. As sit here and drink my quart of coffee, I am praying they are able to take a rest and also take their usual afternoon nap...do you think there is a chance of that one?

Wednesday, March 16, 2011

Finally Relaxed

Wow what a difference a week will make! I feel like I can breath and had some GREAT family time with Cousin Donny in town, Aunt Dianna and Rich! We got to go visit them at Grandpas and then they came up for a visit last night! Is this really my little boy? I can't believe how big he is, sitting here eating a piece of Hersey's Chocolate he snuck!!! Sneaky little guy!
Other great reasons for my new charge of energy:
  • Finished taxes and got all my paperwork upstairs in my office CLEANED up and filed! No piles of paperwork, no piles of paperwork, and no piles of paperwork! First time since boys were born!

  • PUMPED the boys got into one of the best schools of our area.

  • Cleaned house top/bottom, took almost a week, because we were supposed to have my best friend Kim in from Colorado with her two kids today, but unfortunately the trip got canceled at the last minute Monday. So sad about that part!!! However, on the only up side is I have a clean fresh smelling house.

  • It was our 8 year anniversary yesterday and we went out and celebrated last night! It was so fun to get out and just have some great laughs.

  • Had a garage sale which I ALWAYS LOVE and this time made some killer cash, best one yet! Ken made fun of me that morning because I straightened my hair, put on make up and he said "for a garage sale really?" I was like: "Hell yeah, this is serious sales today, I need to be on my A game and look the part"! What sales professional doesn't look good when they are selling!

  • Boys and I have had a great week, especially with the time change, they are not getting out of bed until 7:45-8:00! Fabulous!! And for some reason for over a week now they have been taking 3 hour naps! Again...Fabulous. It just gives me more energy to go all the fun things with them without being burnt out! Loving it!

  • Boys learned how to ride training bikes with training wheels at Grandpas Sunday!

  • Decided no huge Birthday party this year because when we tallied friends/family this week- we were up to about 60 people - 30 family- 30 friends, boys have so many friends because alot of them are twins so it adds up fast. So now we are just doing a family party on Easter night since Easter is at our house this year...MAKES IT SO MUCH EASIER!!

Here is story time last night that ended up in our loft (office)...the family came upstairs and got blankets, pillows, food and books to snuggle up with before bedtime.
Nicolas cuddling with Grandpa- they are both beat after NOT napping!
Grandpa rocked the weekend with getting the boys yet another cool gift, remote control boats. Even Daddy was excited, I think more than the boys.


Dad couldn't resist playing with the remote boats...next is the helicopters according to Grandpa and Daddy!We couldn't call it the complete Fabulous Hughes weekend without a little GOLF involved. Boys got a new set - thanks grandpa! Kens sister plays too so it made it even that more special for the boys! Although on pavement- still fun.

Grandma Paula even came out in the Sun, which means she was really having a good time!
Gotta love that hat!!