So nice of me to show up!

Ok, so every other month I am reminded that I have a blog....and then I make a post. I guess it is that time again!!

Unfortunately I have nothing funny, inspirational, complaints, or anything really to write about.

Boys are good and getting big.

Freddy is talking more and more everyday.

Forgive me, but it is 1225am and I am tired...only half hour to go and then I can go home. I will try to make a more interesting post later this weekend!

Confessions...

I don't seperate my laundry. I am sorry, but I don't. I do take out my sweaters and things that have to be hand washed. I may do a load of towels on their own (not for seperating purposes, but because I love to come to 'that' load when it comes to folding...it goes so quickly!), but for the most part, whatever is in the hamper goes in the washer.


I don't move the baskets/tv/toys/knick knacks/etc. on my shelves when I dust. Once a month I will (maybe), but I usually just go around them.


I make the same dinner 2/3 times a week because it is easy...


The twins only get a back about twice a week. Freddy does get a bath at least every other night.


Sometimes I will do nothing but lay on the couch during the entire nap-time, and then act like a maniac to pick up just before Dennis gets home (and I go to work) so that he comes home to a clean house and I don't feel guilty for being lazy.


Some of you may be wondering why I am saying this. Do you know how many times I hear this question: "I just don't know how you do it?!?" I hear it multiple times a day. As much as I appreciate everyone knowing that I do a lot (and I really do take it as a compliment), it is getting a little much. I mean seriously...everyone is busy. I am just a different kind of busy. How do I do it??? I just do. And not by myself. Dennis is an amazing husband. Our families are our greatest supporters. We have wonderful friends.


Do you know who asks me this question the most??? NANA!!! For those of you who don't know Nana (ok I know that only 2 people read this and you are both related to her, but let me pretend that there is a wider audience), Nana is one of the most amazing woman that I know. She single handedly raised 4 children while working 2 jobs. She does more now than some people my age do. I can't beleive that she "doesn't know how I do it."


I feel really good about everything that I do to raise my boys, and keep my house looking nice, but I could never do some of the things that you all do. So the next time you want to ask me, "how do you do it?". Stop, look at everything amazing that YOU are doing, and pat yourself on your back for doing a good job. Because I often wonder how YOU do it!

Welcome to my home...

While I was on a quick getaway to Massachusettes, Mom and I went to our favorite metaphysical shop in Rockport, Dark Star. We always find wonderful treasures that we can use with our jewelry making. This trip, I was drawn to the kits for house blessings, candles, and aromatherapy. Those are all things that I have always been interested in, but never pursuied. Now that I have heaps of time on my hands (HA), I have decided to add one more thing to the mix! I want to learn more about how to surround myself with good, positive energies and rid myself and home of negative energies.

Well, instead of just buying a cute little kit with a candle and smudge stick, I decided to look at the book section. There I found a great book titled Cottage Witchery. It is all about different ways to bless your home and provide different energies and auras in the various places of your home. Everything from flowers, herbs, candles, etc. I really liked what the book had to offer, and Dennis was sweet enough to get it for me (even though I know that he is freaking out about me coming out one day dressed head to toe in black carrying a broom!!).

I have a MILLION things that I want to do, but I decided to start small. With Mom's help, I got some dried bundles from JoAnns this afternoon. After I got home from work, I took apart my bundles, put them back together with wire and ribbon, and hung my first swag on the front door!! It was made to promote good luck, blessings, and prosperity.

I hope that when you walk through my front door, you will feel blessed and welcome!

Tomorrow I am going to steal some herbs from Mom's garden!! :)

I did it!!

Well, I survived my first walk-to-work/run-home exercise program! Whew, that is a mouthful! Although my co-workers thought that I was insane for running home so late at night, I still did it. During the day, I had taken the boys for a walk to the grocery store. Round trip it is 1.5 miles. When I take them, I have Freddy and one of the twins in the stroller, with the other twin in a backpack. It is a good workout! Then I walked the 1.5 miles to work, and ran the 1.5 miles home. If i can do that three days a week, I will feel really good about myself. The bonus is that Dennis was finally able to hook up our Wii. Now I can Wii Fit again!!!! I haven't used my book camp game since I got it for my birthday. My goal is to run/walk three days a week, and do the boot camp the other 4 days. I have started to gain some weight again, and I DON'T LIKE IT!! My goal is to lose a total of 35lbs starting now. Lets see if I can do it!!

bye bye black clouds...

Today is a new day. I slept for 6 straight hours last night!!!! It was amazing. I feel like a new person; well after my first cup of coffee, since I was up at 515am! I was all set to take the boys outside, maybe to the park. Went to get dressed only to realize I have no clean underoos!! Now there is laundry (with my underoos in the dryer), Freddy is in the backyeard, and I am on the porch with the twins.

Today, I am getting that "Life is good" vibe. We haven't had too many of those around here lately. Dennis is having problems with his job, and therefore we are going to have to make a lot of changes around here. It has left a black cloud over us for a bit. Today though, I am pushing the black clouds away. It is much to nice out, to have metaphorical clouds!

Instead, I have a plan. Play here while the laundry is going. Then we will take a walk downtown for errands (grocery store and bank). Come back here for lunch and put the boys down for a nap. Then I will make dinner (working tonight). We are going to have citrus-garlic chicken with couscous and brocolli. I am also going to attempt to make Guinness oatmeal bread. If it is good, that will also be with dinner. Once that is done, I will pick up the house and rest if I can. Then off to work. I am actually gonig to walk to work today and then run home. I have Dennis's day pack (which is really small and I can cinch down to pit me really good and therefore not have the bouncing bag on my back). I will wear my running stuff to work and change when I get there. Then I will change before I leave and run home. It isn't far, and Warren Street has nice big sidewalks with a LOT of lighting. So it will be really safe. To end my plan, I will shower, pick up the house again, and sleep.

With a plan like that, how can I have black clouds?? I hope that everyone has a "Life is good" moment today!

Happy Mother's Day!

I am so glad that I had such a great Supermom to model myself after!! Happy Mother's Day Mom! And to all the other Mom's reading this!!

OK, so my new favorite books/movie is the Twilight series. I am addicted! I had never even heard of them until this summer when my cousin KT was reading the final book in the series. Even then, the only thing that I knew was that it was about vampires. Then the movie was made...I was still under a rock and didn't know what it was. All of a sudden it came out on video and I started to pay attention.

I started to read up on what they were about, and from there decided that I wanted to try it out. I wanted to read the book before the movie however, so Dennis got me Twilight for Easter. I think that I finished it in three days. It was pretty quick reading, but more than that, I couldn't put it down! Last weekend, I used a gift card from my birthday and got books two and three, plus the movie. The movie was pretty great! And I really liked the second book too. Oh, and I downloaded the soundtrack to my Ipod (which I am listening to right now).

I guess the whole reason for this post is to publicly apologize to Melissa for making fun of her and her Harry Potter antics. :)

After a long hiatus...

3 months...I think that this is the longest time inbetween posts since I have started this blog. However, in my defense, I did say that I was no good at these things in my very first post.

Rather than give you an update on my life (since everyone who reads this already knows what is going on...) I am just going to ramble.

I love barefeet. I don't like to touch them, but I love going around with no shoes on; and once it is nice out, I rarely wear shoes. Dennis has always been very disturbed by this even though he has watched me do it for years now. Tuesday was the start of my shoeless season. Mom and Dad came up to help me pack and to finish the floors. It was GORGEOUS out (no matter what anyone says about 90 degrees), so I decided to take my shoes off once all the heavy lifting was done (about 11am). I didn't put shoes back on until I went on some walking trails the next afternoon! It was a wonderful feeling; going from the cool grass to the warm pavement, from the wet puddles to the dry and warm sand. My feet have never been "pretty" (though really, pretty feet??); full of calluses and usually dirty since I dont like to wear shoes! To me it doesn't matter. Add a little polish and perhalps a toe-ring, and they are perfect!

I know that everyone has their favorite seasons, and mine is summer by far. For me, I think that it goes deeper than that. Mom was born and raised in the south, and I think that her "southerness" was passed down to me. I have always felt at home, even complete, by the ocean. The warm/hot sun never bothers me...and I LOVE it. Most importantly, sometimes I feel that I could stay outdoors forever. Melissa left a facebook comment about the Swiss Family Robinson the other day. It reminded me of how much I have always loved to be outdoors and being adventurous. Even though I am in a whole new adventure these days, I would still love to be able to build a house in the trees and live completely outside and off the land. (Remember how I told you that I was going to ramble...)

I wish that I had the courage to get rid of cable and internet all together. Well, maybe not the internet. I would still keep my TV (a beautiful 32in flat screen that I just bought for Dennis) for movies and games, but would go back to the rules that my parents once set forth for me on the limited time by the TV.

I am hoping that with the new house, with the backyard and playground, that me and the boys will be outside almost all the time. I am hoping that we take advantage of the fact that we live just inches (ok, a bit more than that) from the Adirondacks. I really hope that I can really become the minimalist "greeniemommie" that I want to be.

(nope not my feet, but I love the picture)

All about me...maybe!

Well, if you read the comment after my last post, you saw that my cousin Hollie wants me to write more about myself. I don't know if I can do that!! I have been so focused on my little guys, that they really are who I am at this point. I don't say that as a negative thing either. I am so proud of them, and proud to be a Mom. And I am still at the point where I don't know how to have a conversation without bragging about them or telling a story about something that they did. As much as it probably annoys some people (especially those without kids), I love it!! But for Hollie, and for myself, I am going to try...at least in this post!! :)

Well, I will start off by saying that I love Dennis, but I am talking about a different Dennis than who I married...Denis Leary. If you aren't familiar with Denis Leary or his comedy...come out from under your rock, go to youtube...or just google him! You will find out that he is rudely honest, politically INcorrect, curses worse than any sailor or trucker you have ever heard, and is absolutely hilarious!

I am reading (almost done) his book "Why We Suck," and I think that EVERYONE should read it. Not only does the book make me laugh out loud (literally), but it validates a lot of what I think/feels. He just has the balls to say it! Not only that, but it has inspired me to write a little something of my own...Why We Also Suck (which I am somehow going to send him). Here is how I started it out:


"Why We Suck," written by Dr. Denis Leary in my opinion should be on a shelf in the bookstore right next to "What to Expect When You Are Expecting." Scratch that. It should REPLACE that nonsense. If you need a book to tell you that in the next nine months you are going to get fat, tired, and hormonal, perhaps you shouldn't have gotten pregnant! I am shamed to admit that I bought the book, but I am proud to say that I didn't read a single page. I will say that I read two books cover to cover when I found out that I was having triplets. But that is another topic to be discussed later.

People don't need a book to tell them that just because you are pregnant, you should still eat healthy. Not fast food three meals a day followed by a tray of brownies with the excuse, I can eat it because I am pregnant. Now, I am not the poster child of healthy eating, but it is common sense that what you eat/drink, the baby gets. You shouldn't need to read a book to have that knowledge.

People don't need a book to tell them that they need to quit smoking and drinking so you don't harm your child...JUST DO IT! I am so sick of people complaining that it is too hard to quit smoking during pregnancy; that it is too hard to give up wine during the pregnancy. If you aren't going to put your child first, then DON'T HAVE KIDS! Wear a freaking condom! Take a freaking pill! It is not that hard this day and age to NOT have kids. Hell, you can get the stuff for free!!

People need a book (such as the one by Denis Leary) where they can get a harsh dose of reality, and perhaps a kick in the ass! I have taken this opportunity to springboard off of his book. I would like to take this time to say that I do not have Denis Leary's approval or permission, but since these are my own words and not his, I guess it doesn't matter. Hope he doesn't mind!

You may want to argue that some women who get pregnant may be young, and not know everything that comes with having a baby. If that is the case, then you are probably talking about someone who hasn't even finished high school. Again, I will say that you can get birth control for FREE. Accidents happen and yadda yadda yadda...KEEP YOUR PANTS ON AND THERE WONT BE ANY ACCIDENTS! If you are too young to drive a car, you are too young to have sex. If you are too young, immature, and unintelligent to vote; you are too young for sex! I am so sick of hearing about kids having kids!

I am also sick of hearing about having 17 thousand kids at once. If God wanted you to have that many kids, he would have made you a dog. Now this is coming from someone who got pregnant (I am of age to drive, vote, drink, therefore an adult) with triplets. I did not get pregnant by IVF or by taking fertility drugs. It just happened. It also just happened, that one of the babies didn't make it past 12 weeks in my uterus. We were obviously extremely upset by the loss, but we knew that it was for the best. Our bodies aren't made to have that many kids...and our bodies are smart enough to realize the limitations! It is a shame that science has found a way to trick our bodies to think something else. I am not saying that I am against fertility treatments. I know people who have successfully had children this way. However, they didn't go to the doctor, spread their legs, and say "put 10 embryos in me and lets hope for the best!" What the hell do you think is going to happen?!? "I didn't know that I was going to have 4 or 5 or 8 kids!" MORON!


I am hopefully going to have more to follow, and will keep you updated when I write more. Hope I didn't piss you off too much!

Well Hollie, you asked about me...I guess this isn't really about what is going on in my life...more about what is going on in my head when I am not trying to figure out which bottle belongs to which twin...or trying to find the pacifier that Freddy just stole from one of the boys...or when I am running around playing with Freddy!

Freddy's update

Freddy went to the doctor yesterday for his well-baby visit. He is doing really good. Dr Anderson said that his eyes, ears, heart, and lungs are great. He is maintaining his growth curve; gaining 2 pounds and 2 inches. Now he is 25 pounds 2 ounces and 34 inches tall!! According to the doctor he is going to be around 6 ft tall when he is fully grown!! He definitely gets that from my side of the family! haha

Freddy making Pip a bucket-head! Pip is proud that his boy is going to be tall, just like him!

Doctors appointment

Well, yesterday I took the twins for their 2-month check-up. They are doing wonderful! They are both tracking with their eyes, responding to sounds, heart and lungs sound great, and they are growing a lot!! Liam is 22.25 inches long and weighs 12 pounds 5 ounces. RJ is 23.5 inches long and weighs 12 pounds 9 ounces. I am so proud of my babies!!

Hi, I am still here!!

Wow, it's have been a month since my last post. I guess I don't feel bad considering that I have been a bit busy!! Besides, everyone who reads this talking to me regularly either in person or on facebook!!

It has been quite an adjustment since the twins arrived, as you would have guessed. Dennis and I are starting to get into a rhythm, but it is far from perfect. The most important thing is that they are starting to sleep a bit better. And when I say starting, I mean for the last three nights!! For the most part they are doing extremely well! When you hear about twins, you usually hear about them being premature, or really small for their age, not eating well, etc. Not my boys!! They are growing like weeds; as they should considering how much they eat! They are measuring right where Freddy was at this point (two months old). They still look very much alike, and yes, we still mark their feet!

The Little Prince is such a great big brother. He loves to give hugs to his brothers and he is even starting to give them kisses. We found out when we went to Wilton Mall to play in the kids center that he is pretty protective of them too! There was a little girl trying to see inside the car seats and Freddy gently, but forcefully pushed her out of the way and then gave his brothers hugs!! Freddy is even trying to say 'brother!' On that same subject, Freddy can say Mom and Daddy. And he has been working on brother, stinky, and some other word that we haven't figured out yet.

Dennis is having a hard time since he went back to work. He feels that he is missing out on a lot; especially with Freddy. I just started working again myself. This is good for Dennis in the sense that he will have special time alone with the boys. But also, with me working, we can start thinking about Dennis giving up his second job. We would all love to have him home with us more!!

Freddy and I have been taking a beating this week. Sunday, I fell going down Mom and Dad's stairs while holding Freddy. He got pretty scared, but was fine. I, however, still have a HUGE bruise on my bum!! Freddy also took a header into Kathy's tray-tables Tuesday night. He has a gash on his forehead to prove it as well!

We are all getting VERY excited about the house. We close in less than a month!! Dennis and I have chosen the paint colors for all the rooms. We have to paint all but the kitchen, but we have plenty of time to do it. At least this way it will all be done before we move anything in! The first thing that I am going to do is clean it from top to bottom. Then Dennis and I are going to rip up the carpet in the office. We would like to see what condition the floors are in upstairs. If they aren't too bad we are going to pull them all up, sand, and stain. Otherwise we will leave the carpet and put it on the 5 year plan!

I am bringing the twins to the doctor tomorrow morning, so at the very least, I will put a small post letting you all know how it went. I will also be sure to put some pictures up tomorrow too (at work right now).

"MOM!"

One little word. Three letters. A word that I am sure will annoy me at a later date. But last night, around 4:30pm, one little boy said, with confidence, "Mom!"

Freddy has been making sounds and noises, da da da, ma ma ma, ah!...etc. But he hasn't actually said a word. We know what he means, but last night was the first time that he said a word. The best part was that there were witnesses. So I am not some crazy mother "claiming" that my son did something! lol My mom and Mary both heard it with me. Then throughout the evening, my dad, Pat, Nana, and Melissa also heard. Dennis did as well, but he doesn't want to admit it!

Of course when he said it the first time I picked him up and cheered, threw him in the air a few times (no I am not supposed to yet) and yelled "I win!!"

No, I don't win...its not a competition. But on a night when I was stressed, scared, and a bit anxious (Dennis went back to work today), that one word made my heart fill with joy and almost burst!

Mom. One word. The BEST word!