"Confessions" of This Twin Mom

Ok… let's see here… after almost a year and a half of having 3 under two years old and now 3 under three years old… Here are just a few things…

1. I have NEVER gotten the twins mixed up… in the daylight. - OK ONCE, during the wee hours of the night while still in the "survival mode" of the first 6 months of their lives, my routine in the night, if one woke up, was to walk down the hall in complete darkness go in to their room, grab the one crying without waking the other one (not as hard as it sounds, they are so used to each others noises) Take him back to bed and nurse... then carry him back to his own bed. (this is after the stage when I had to  wake them both, no matter what, in order to get some uninterrupted sleep) Now, normally even if i forgot to take note which crib the waker came from.. I could tell just by holding them who I had. And this night as I carried him to bed I did think I knew who I had, until I walked into his room (still in complete dark) and laid him… right on top of his sleeping brother!

2. When I am ready to walk out the door and I get mr. 2 1/2 year old out the door in front of me, sling the bag over my shoulder and pick up a 1 year old in each arm… then turn around to shut the door with my pinky finger and see there are lights still on in the house… I leave them on!!!

3. We eat pizza a lot more than we used to… Homemade… Pizza Hut… Papa Murphy's… Frozen...

4. After many cute pictures and videos of our first childs babyhood, we realized we had forgotten that he had ever cried uncontrollably or done anything other than sleep like an angel. so we reconciled that with a video of the twinsies at their best… - after bath, diaper changes, swaddled and ready for "time with mama" before going to sleep, but for a few minutes they had to wait on me… so they got video taped for a minute while in that desperate state… documented!

5. ALL three boys repertoire of socks has gone from "normal" to… "save the matching pairs of socks for when we go in public or church"… to… "their socks NEVER match"… to…" oh good, its summer, I'm buying you all sandals - WHERE ARE ALL YOUR SOCKS??!"

6. I cook pancakes on very low heat because I almost always get interrupted by a little one who needs help with something or am multitasking and that way when i get back to them they're never burnt! (Yeah, I burnt a lot of pancakes learning this)

7. If you're at our house you might notice that after removing a diaper from a dirty bottom we pretty much immediately fold it up and either hide it under our leg or toss it (across the room) in the direction of the trash can… sometimes we make it, sometimes the lid isn't even open, but we get it away before we finish putting the next diaper on because we learned that 9 times out of 10 there is another little body right there that will inevitable pick it up if we don't!

8. If I text you that the kids just woke up from their nap and I'm gonna throw shoes on them, load them in the car and I'm headed your direction - that means I will get to your house in about an hour… unless you live further than 15 minutes away from me… then it will take longer…

9. I missed grocery shopping during those first months of the twins lives. So much so that now that they're all old enough to manage taking them with me by myself, I still enjoy it!

10. When I was pregnant the second time and found out that we were going to have 3 boys within 17 months of age, the teacher came out in me. When I realized I would basically have a small pre-K class in a couple of years, I actually started looking up activities and lessons that daycares do with their 1&2 year old class…  at the time I asked my (fellow teacher) friend if that was completely nerdy of me… she said yes!   BTW: they're now 2 1/2 and almost 1 1/2 and I have actually done these organized activities/lessons with them… maybe twice…?

11. After seeing that while nursing tater tot #1 I had dropped under my pre-pregnancy weight, my midwife was concerned that nursing twice as much would make me "waste away"… Welp, guess she didn't need to worry about that! proved her wrong!! :)

12. I have yet to do any sort of exercise that doesn't naturally happen during my day… unless this counts!  

                     tried starting, had like a one day in a row streak… I think it's time because...

12. The twins are now 16 months old! When their big brother was that age I was 36 weeks pregnant with them!

13. Having twins killed my pride in the area of asking for help!! And it allowed me to cut myself some slack (mentally). Now, I wish I could make moms who don't have twins cut themselves the same slack and not be so hard on themselves for those things that are sometimes just impossible! SO, ASK FOR HELP AND CUT YOURSELF SOME SLACK! :)

(oh. and #14. I started writing this 3 days ago…)