what a typical day for us looks like.

As everyone knows its not the same every day but I thought it would be fun to sit down and actually write out how a typical day at home goes for us. I could get really detailed which would make it probably more interesting but I would be writing for days, this is long enough as it is!

Rise and Shine- or in my case hide under your pillow praying for another hour of sleep

6:50am the boys have woken up and our standing in their cribs crying for us
(the above is occasional but happens enough to mention)

7:00am Travis' alarm starts to go off for the first time as I hit him and in a whisper yell at him to hurry and turn it off before it wakes the boys and then threaten his life :)

7:15 it goes off again and so it begins the wrestling in the crib and crying starts
7:17 put boys in our bed (in hopes they want to sleep longer, though they never do)
7:19 change diapers, get bottles with milk
7:30 they hand mommy their bottles in exchange for their paci's and blankets
7:30 we watch daddy rush to get ready for work
7:45 they are now ready to go for the day, off the bed and on to their plane and train full speed ahead
7:50 they now want to watch Mickey Mouse Clubhouse
8:00 I give them dry cereal while they sit down to watch MM and eat
8:15 no longer sitting, cereal is now on the floor
8:17 I am telling them to pick it up instead they are running over it with their plane and train and continue playing
9:00 around here somewhere they usually get jelly toast or grapes, yogurt, (we don't do a big breakfast) also they get their first of many sippy cups with water/apple juice mix
9:20 I am cleaning up, depending on how much cereal was ran over I may vacuum at this point or wait till the mess just gets bigger- why vacuum every time they make a mess
9:20 they are still running all over. blocks, cars, still on their riding toys going as fast as they can, purposely running into the stove over and over as I tell them to stop before they dent it. To which they continue. slamming cabinet doors is another pleasure of theirs ugh.

- sometime during all this I have now read at least 3 books if not the same one 20 times. But not actually reading it because they could careless what it says they just want to point at all the objects and tell me what they are. They get smarter everyday. It amazes me, and I adore it. I've also had to tell them to get down from the coffee table which they like to put those riding toys up on and try to ride them off of it- its a nightmare. haa. I have had to redirect them to other toys probably 5 times in this "play time" because they are fighting over the same toy. Shaking their cups to get the juice/water out happens now as well.

-I have changed two poop diapers by now, usually they do it at the same time (twin thing maybe??)
10:30 rolls around and they start to get sleepy, they are walking around with their paci and blankets, some days they cuddle up with me as we watch Thomas or Sesame Street. FAVORITE TIME
10:50 here goes a quick bursts of energy and off they go
10:55 sometimes they start to get hungry again so they eat something, fill sippy cups
11:00 change diapers
between 11:00-11:30 They follow me to their crib and they lay down for a nap (usually no fuss these days) although they do like to run around in their cribs and giggle giggle giggle which is the sweetest thing to hear, until they finally lay down and pass out.

during nap time my typical day can go something like this:

laundry
dishes
shower
absolutely nothing, watch netflixs
sleep
social media catchup
paint
write
workout
primp/makeup/hair/
emails from work

here lately I have found myself actually wanting the boys to wake up because I get bored or don't want to do any of those things and just want to play with them... odd I know hahaaha They sleep anywhere from 1-3 hours so they nap great!

2-2:30 the boys wake up and let me know it. Pick them both up, and cuddle on the couch for a few
2:45 change diapers
2:50 fill up their sippy cups again (probably the 3rd time at this point) because now they are ready to play again.
3:00 make them lunch (yes i know its a late lunch around here)
3:30 clean up again, usually I will clean the kitchen at this point in the day because well it needs it

-from now till 5pm its a repeat of play time from earlier! books a hundred times, blocks, we have dance parties in the afternoons, cleaning up the messes they make. silly faces, hide and seek, we draw on the chalkboard wall, we get out the crayons and paper and we sit in the living room floor and create masterpieces. runny and jumping around on the couch as I tell them no, and anticipate someone getting hurt. kissing boo boos. they have managed to take almost all of our shoes out of the closet and tell me which ones are Momma and which ones are Daddy's on a daily basis. we may have tried to sit on the potty a few times just to get use to it. If we (yes 'we', they have to hold the vacuum and push it with me, takes FOREVER) haven't vacuumed yet we do it in this part of the day. Sometimes we will do dishes now too, which also results in them seeing certain cups/coffee mugs and somehow knowing which ones are Mommy's and which ones are daddy's again and they are always right. The first time they started this it caught me off guard but amazed me as I thought about it because I don't think hey this is my favorite cup or Travs but they notice. Then the cuteness turns to terror as they start taking out the dishes or runny off with dirty silverware...

4:50-5:15 we usually watch out the window off and on during this time for Daddy to pull in. When they see him they get so excited and point, yell 'thats daddy' and then run to the back door and wait for him to come in. At this point they get crazy lol they start spinning, or jumping all over the place, excitement and wanting attention now that he is home.

5:30 Daddy TRIES to sneak and take a shower but they always notice and have to follow or have a complete meltdown till he is done.
5:50 Daddy play time
6:00 I start dinner while they play with him until they push and pull on me wanting me to pick them up or wanting something, I'm yelling at Travis to get them and entertain them better haha. I always think they would want to play with daddy and forget about mommy for a few but no, never, I am still their number one :)
6:30-7:15 sometime in there we eat, watch a little Mickey while doing so (they eat more when watching TV versus sitting at the table they get bored to quickly)
7:30-8:00 between here it is bath time, they love love love bath time. even so that during the day they sometimes just go sit in the tub without water and play- some nights we paint the tub, some nights we stay in forever, some nights its a quick one... there is also a battle of yelling no, stop, sit down. they love to push the thing to let the water out so that's a constant battle. they try to dance in the tub NOT OKAY. at the moment I am trying to teach them to look up so I can rinse their hair without having it go in their faces. Its not going so good..

8:20 diapers, steroid cream (if needed), lotion, clothes, paci, blanket
8:30 bottles and snuggles on the couch
8:45 they try to go play again but its just because they are tired so it doesn't happen for long
9:00 by this time they are almost always in bed if not earlier, unless of course we are not home. Thank GOD seriously God, that they now sleep through the night since 19 months when we got their eczema under control. They don't fight it or cry either, unless one stole the others blankets.

I left out quite a few diaper changes in there. On occasion we have cranky days where I just want to hide, but its very rare. I do clean up messes what feels like all day long, the cereal I mentioned, juice they like to shake out of their cups, playing in the toilet if for some reason they get to it, picking up food I thought they ate but really just threw down as they were walking. ya know..

This is just an example of our normal stay home day. Going outside the house is a whole other adventure. Not hard just A LOT involved. I love it though, I couldn't have asked for better children, they are brilliant, funny, sweet, kind, they share, they clean, they are more than I could have ever imagined. As for the rest of the night for us I shower in peace, try to stay up and snuggle, watch tv/movie but it doesn't last long. I fall asleep or just go to bed. We may have a "normal day" but I still am exhausted after they go to sleep.

Yes I am a mother of NATURAL multiples!!

This will probably be one of those post where you start making a opinion before you finish reading it but that's okay. For some it may hit home and others it may not. But as a mother and woman of twins I want to talk about something that not bothers me but i... just, well I don't really know what the correct words/phrasing I'm looking for are... 

I always read these articles about twins, twin pregnancies, twin births and they all seem to try and disregard the fact that some women naturally get pregnant with multiples. Now your probably already starting to jump to conclusions that I'm trying to say us who do are 'better' than those who need science and doctors to do so, I'm not, not at all. To be honest I can't imagine what it must feel like to know you can't get pregnant on your own or at all, I don't know what it's like to suffer through a miscarriage, or get your hopes up for a family to be told you can't. I actually think to myself after reading all those stories 'wow Lord! Why me? Why was I given two healthy babies the very first time we tried and some don't get any?' But that's not even what this is about. 

I feel after reading these articles, post, comments as a mother of natural twins that we get put into a catergory that is kind of pushed to the side as if we should not 'brag about' the fact it was natural. That it's wrong or we are arrogant or things of that nature. To me that is wrong to belittle someone in general is wrong no matter the circumstance! No I didn't have to spend thousands to get my babies, no I didn't have to suffer through heart breaks before creating mine but I should be able to talk about and be amazed at how God did give me mine. 

Because quite frankly the fact that within 3 days of my marriage being restored we created two tiny beings the first time that it 'could' have happened astonishes me. It proves to me that God has a plan much bigger than my own for my life. That less then two weeks after conception I had a positive pregnancy test which is usually rare, the fact that within 5 weeks after conception we saw for the first time two itty bitty dots (really at that point still) so much so that the actual sack was still in the placenta that one of them had come out of. That's how soon we found out and saw our sweet babies. The fact that once I wrapped my head around the thought of "I am going to be a mother to not only one baby but two at the same time for the first time" I knew it was something big. The fact that when we found out they were both boys I knew in my inner most being these were going to be special babies in the kingdom of God. That their names that were given to me by Him meant exactly what they would live up to! Last but not least the attacks at the end and the horrendous delivery meant only that the devil was already trying to take us out but would not succeed!! 

So to every Woman of multiples that were created naturally stand up and own it!! Because not everyone has more than one child at a time and these days fewer who do did not have a hand in it!! It's a special thing and an amazing thing so I'm done with letting people or the world act like its wrong to ask or answer yes they were natural! I am a much stronger, braver, wiser woman than I ever knew I would be and I won't let anyone belittle my pregnancy or my babies or for that matter my story!!