Adventures with Olive and Georgia

I mentioned in a previous post that a good friend told me that COMPARING IS THE THEIF OF JOY. I want to expound on that. I saw a dumb magazine with a photo (very airbrushed I’m sure) of Kim Kardashian in a bikini on the cover. She looked great! But… it’s difficult to see stuff like that as a woman (and I don’t speak for everyone), and not think, “How did that happen? I still barely fit into my first round of maternity clothes!” Also, there’s that picture floating around with the petite hottie with a body mommy with three kids that says, “What’s your excuse?” Well, that just inspires the crap outta me…NOT. Come to find out this ‘hot mama’ is a fitness trainer. So, my excuses are; 1.      I have a sitter to go to work not to exercise. 2.      I work at an elementary school, not a gym. 3.      I can’t afford a gym membership and I don’t have time to take away from the babies to go anyway. 4. ...

I have completed two weeks of teaching during the day and mommying in the evening and night. I have to say that I was terrified of how hard it was going to be, and believe me it has been hard, but it isn’t as difficult as I expected.  The girls were sick for the first time during my first days at work.  My mom called to tell me she was taking Olive to the Dr. (she had already taken Georgia) and I could hear the girls crying in the background. I cried. Tony was out of town for week one, and is about to leave again (Thank goodness for my awesome mom and for my family letting her keep coming back!).  We are all surviving fussy evenings and staggering around to make bottles at 4AM knowing we have to get up again in two hours to go to work. Our house is a wreck 99% of the time and smells like a combination of spit up and a diaper pail. I go to bed every night at 9:30 with the babies, which is earlier than I’ve ever gone to bed in my life but I am s...

I know that I will continue to add to this list for the rest of my life, but here are some things I’ve realized over the past three months as a new mom. 1. You are never more of a songwriter and singer than when you are changing a poopy diaper.  My best friend Anna is going to release an album of all her poop pop hits! 2. A Dove chocolate bar and a Coke Zero from the Target check out lane is a perfectly suitable lunch. 3. Mini vans are the BEES KNEES! Buying a Honda Odyssey may have put me in debt for a few more years, but it also added some years back onto my life with those amazing sliding doors at the click of a button! 4. The fast food drive-thru was invented for mothers of babies, especially ones with multiple babies! 5. Sometimes going to bed hungry is just easier than the process of deciding on, making, and eating dinner with two fussy babies. 6. One of my greatest accomplishments in life (up there with finishing grad school and buy...

It’s hard to believe it has been 5 years since we got married! It’s even harder to believe that it’s been 12 years since our worlds happily collided! To say happy anniversary, I’d like reminisce on a few of our most memorable married moments. -        Our little wedding in Savannah, Georgia. It was so hot, and we were happy for the light rain and to jump into the fountain.  People say they don’t want to elope because they will one day regret not having a big wedding. I’ve never regretted a single thing about it! It was perfect for us! -        Your lost puppy-dog face the whole time we were at Disney World for our honeymoon. I think you wanted to have children for an excuse to go back! -        The financial struggle we went through during our first year of marriage and the thankfulness we will always have for what God’s blessed us with since then. We truly have...