Calmly Chaotic

I am officially disappointed in myself.  I mean I did just have two babies 7 weeks ago but really, I never thought I would miss such an important milestone.  I catch myself thinking about how amazing our life is right now and that if I could only tell my former (one year ago) self that everything r…

I love this.  It makes me want to run outside and bask in the crisp fall sunset.

Today I am off to get my hair cut and coloured.  This will be my first prolonged time away from Isla and Alice.  I am going to try and relax and enjoy it and don't worry... I have zero plans of getting a "mom&…

On Saturday we braved an 18 baby get together... yes... 18 twins (from nine sets of parents whom we met at our multiples prenatal classes) in one house simultaneously.  It was so great to chat with other parents of multiples.  They get what the daily chaos is like when you have two babies living un…

I think the sling is essential for any new mother or father (yes I've managed to get this on Andrew once or twice... in the comfort of our home.... he has his beco butterfly wrap which is admittedly much more "manly" but you can't beat the closeness that a wrap can offer).  
When…

Our girls are over six weeks old and to be honest things have just been so busy we have sort of just forgotten about everything we read about sleep training pre-babies.  We have also not really felt the urge to coerce our girls into some sort of military-like schedule so young.  They also sleep rea…

I never talk about work on here.  I rarely talk about work outside of work to anyone except Andrew.  Why is this?  
Well if I am being honest, I kind of hate it.  
Ever since Alice and Isla were born I've contemplated how I would ever go back to work.  I look at their gorgeous little faces and …

Isla and Alice will be six weeks old tomorrow!  This week all of a sudden they both seem so much bigger.  Andrew weighed himself and then held each of them and stepped back on the scale last night (I am way too frightened to get near that scale at this point).  Isla is over 8 pounds and Alice over…

I've always had a touch of peter pan syndrome..... as in I would prefer to never grow up... as in I would enroll in hogwarts if such a place existed, several of my favourite books and movies are intended for children and I still believe in the Easter Bunny... I mean I saw him walk into my house…

Yes I heard from several people while I was pregnant that a swing was an essential item....

No we did not purchase one while I was pregnant thinking that the vibrating bouncy chair would suffice....

we were wrong...

a swing = bliss

one wailing baby whilst nursing another baby is now a thing of the …

Isla would win gold....

I wish I was kidding but honestly... she attacks me like she has never eaten before... like she will never eat again... like she is the hungriest baby alive...

I actually have to take a few good deep long breathes when she first latches on until she eases up.

Alice on the ot…

Our identical twins do not look identical.  When they were born they looked quite different.  Their skin tone was very different, their heads were a totally different shape and we could tell them apart easily... we did not expect this.

So for the past 4+ weeks we have been wondering if they are in …

dear alice, isla and andrew,

Last night I was laying in bed, thinking how crazy it seems that a month ago you were preparing to make your debut and I was in labor.  I still look at you.. every day... and wonder how you possibly both were in my belly at the same time.

This month has easily been the…

Last night I tried on a dress... one that fit easily on my former pre-preggo skinny frame.

It did not go well.

Andrew had to peel it off of me and I actually had a mini panic attack thinking that it would not fit back over these boobs and we might just have to cut it off.

This mistake is a resu…

Spooning... it's one of those things that I would day dream about when I was younger... yes I would picture me.. and my yet undiscovered future husband spooning.  This is the type of thing that occupied my young teen mind... sad.. maybe... but true.

Why am I bringing this up you might wonder? …