Simply the Smith's

I did it I survived my first day of work. It went good.  I only called Michael 32165464 3 times to check on my babies. Not that I don't trust him, just that well for the last 9 ish weeks I have been with them everyday, all day and I missed them.  So yesterday I signed up for the gym. You could do it on-line and then just had to stop in to get your access key so I signed up Michael and I for the gym and then went after work to pick up our keys. I ran to the grocery store after and got dinner. I got home later than I wanted and the night felt so rushed. But I'm proud to say that I already made it to the gym this morning for my first workout. I decided that on Monday's and Tuesday's I will go before work since they open at 5 and it is 2 seconds from work I really only have to wake up 20 mins earlier and then I get to go home right after work and be with my family, beacuse when I leave at 5:30 in the morning they are all sleeping. Now on Wednesday-Friday it will be after...

I'm back at work. After being off for 3 1/2 months I came into the office to work. It was crazy and felt like I was starting an new job. I'm missing my babies hard right now. My husband is freaking out just a little bit becuse this is his first time home alone with all 3 kids. He will be fine. Besides I had a nice long talk with Grayson about how he needs to be a big helper and good listner for Daddy while Mommy is gone at work all day. I have normally been grocery shopping on Monday's becaue I was off and Grayson and I would pack up and head out around 9 and get all of our errands done for the day. So I went to pack my lunch this morning and we have no food. So I'm doing a light run after work today and then switching my grocery shopping day to Friday's after I get Grayson from school so that we can have some one on one time together. I'm going on my lunch to sign up for the gym that is right down the road from my work. They have an awesome 30 min ful...

Grayson was a fairly healthy baby. We did have a few colds that he needed to go the doctor's for but we always kept them under control, other than getting pink eye every cold season we have been blessed. One cold I remember taking him to the doctors office thinking that to me he was struggling to breath. The doctor assured me (after oxygn monitoring) that he was breathing fine and that a sure sign of labored breathing was the stomach sucking in around the ribs. Well that stuck with me. Jump forward 2.5 years and Marshall has gotten the stuffy nose that his big brother brought home from daycare. What a joy having a 7 week old struggling to breath. I was giving him a bath last Monday night when I saw the sucking in around the ribs. Panick set in as I watched him breath heavy and the sucking continue. Thank goodness for Facetime because I Facetimed my Mom right away and she agreed with me. That was a cause for concern. I got him out of the tub and in in his jammies and waited to...

Twins are no joke And while I like to think most days I have my ish together I finally broke......my body broke that is. The broken up sleep going on over 3 months because at the end of my pregnancy I never got more than 3 hours at a time finally kicked in and last week I lost it. I had such a bad migraine that I had to abandon my husband on the last night feeding and go sleep in a quiet room alone for 5 hours straight and it was heaven until I woke up with my throat almost swollen shut and my nose stuffed. Needless to say I'm not much help on the baby front and my sweet Michael had to call into work last Wednesday and stay home with me so I could rest. I'm feeling better I just have a nagging cough now and nose that is stuffed one second and then draining the next. We have been going through a fussy phase with the babies and it's hard to get too much done during the day. We tried changing their formula and that made them constipated so ...

I really am. No I didn't make any crafts today, or make some 3 course meal. But I did many things that give me SUPER MOM status. Let's start from the beginning of my day. 5:45 am I got my threenager up and dressed in time for my sister to pick him up for school. We had no tears or time outs so that gives me my status right off the bat. I could have stopped there but I didn't. I made a cup of coffee and fed my 5 week old twins. They both burped without spitting up and then they went back to sleep. All the praise hands out there because yay!!! I drank my coffee warm. Again SUPER MOM!!! I talked to my husband on one of his breaks and got to give him undivided attention. Okay this one is SUPER WIFE status but I'm counting it. I fed the babies again and got them dressed in outfits... SUPER MOM. Then I did 2 loads of laundry, I pulled out all of Grayson's summer clothes and organized the twins clothes ( I already had to pack up newborn clothes how is that...

It's pretty crazy..... Michael and I just had a talk the other day how we have to let go of how it was when Grayson was a baby. We both kept saying " we don't remember Grayson doing..." or " We could get so much more done when Grayson was a baby" and then I said to him we have got to stop that. I mean one- we have two babies and two- we also have a 3 year old. It's so different and we just have to give eachother and ourselves a little bit of grace and just get done what we can. Monday's and Tuesday's are our days together as a family and always seem jam packed. Monday we get up after having about 6 hours of broken sleep(usually 2-3 hour stretches) around 6:30-7 and we feed the babies while Grayson eats breakfast and watches a show. I use the term watch loosely because he is usually up pulling out a million and one toys all of which he needs you to turn on or fix while your trying to feed one of the babies or your in the middle of chaning a...

We are officially done having babies. I had my tubes tied. This seemed like the best decision for lots of reasons mostly because we felt that our family was complete and since I was already in surgery it was the best option. We talked about the number of kids we wanted when we first got married. He said one, I said three. We had Grayson and decided that two was our number and that after our second I would have my tubes tied and that would be that. After having the miscarriage I still strongly felt like two was our number. We had been blessed with one and I remember praying like crazy to God to let us have just one more baby to complete our family. Well I think he just heard the complete our family party because he blessed us with two more. And I can honestly say that we feel so complete. We have 3 of the most gorgeous kids there ever was, and we just love them so much it hurts. It makes me think that if we would have just had one and I had my tubes tied would I have felt li...