My first year with twins; time

I have NONE!!!

So I had really high hopes for writing every day last week - that didn't happen! I had presents to make the Chiklits for their big day (and I didn't even get all of those finished.) I had something I wanted to make them for Valentine's Day (ditto). I'm gonna have to figure these things out in the future b/c they don't understand this year but next year they will! It's not like they didn't get any other presents but the special ones that I made myself weren't all, completely ready in time. And this all b/c I was preparing for a 16 person, 1st birthday party. That would probably take any normal person a day (or less) to prepare for - it took me a week, right up to the minute family started to arrive.

I recently read a blog post about being a hands free mom and I guess it's a good thing that I barely have time to figure out where my phone is during the day. Although the down side of this is that the 3 hours I spend with hubby, at some point we are both checking things on our phones. Need to work a bit more on the QT.

And it's funny b/c my days are busy from the min. I wake up but when I think back I can't figure out for the life of me why I can't get anything done! A typical day consists of getting up, dressing the Chiklits, giving them breakfast; while I'm feeding them breakfast I'm juggling trying to get the dishes from the night before into the dishwasher and some days getting a crock pot dinner going. Then we clean up and I let them play in their room for a bit so I can vacuum the floors (yes, I've become a bit OCD about this and I'm trying to be better by only vacuuming every other day! LOL) and clean up their breakfast messes. If it's nice we all walk the dogs, if not I run them around the yard. We play, read, run errands, wherever the day leads us. Then it's already lunch time! I get the girls their lunch, try to eat a little something myself finally and then get them cleaned up and play a little more. They go down for naps and I shower and head off to work. I'm home 4-5 hours later. We have a little family time - play with the girls for a little while, have a dance party, or we give them a bath. I get them ready for bed, give them their bottles, and read them a book; while DH is walking the dogs and getting dinner together if I didn't that morning. Then DH and I finally have our dinner and watch some TV. Then off to bed he goes and I have the wee hours of the night to myself - where I either write a blog post, send emails out, or create. And so I've been failing miserably at my New Year's resolution of getting to bed by 1am. I just need those few hours for "me".

I haven't had a chance to read a book in MONTHS. I need to figure out running again. Once it's nice enough again (actually I can't complain at all, it's been the mildest winter of my entire life and there were many days I could have gone running but instead I take the dogs for a long walk b/c they deserve it after being cooped up for a few not so nice days.) I also need to find my motivation, once I'm up for it again we'll re-add that to our morning routine. I just need to figure out fitting in eating somehow first.

Phew, after all that it just sounds like a whole bunch of complaining, huh?! I don't mean for it to sound that way - I love my new busy, some days I just wish I could get more than a bowl of cereal in before heading off to work.