Simply the Smith's

What are we eating Grilled everything. Hot dogs, chicken, steak, corn. Just grilled everything. It's easy clean up. What I'm remincsing about Our anniversary trip to Toronto last year. This year we are doing a staycation because a) time and b) time. But I loved exploring that city with my honey. At the CN Tower I think we were on the observation deck What I'm loving My essential oils. I just bought a kit so stay tuned I'm working on a post how we are putting these to good use. What we've been up to Swimming and taking care of babies. Oh Grayson went to the Star Wars night at the baseball park with my parents and had a blast but still won't go near a single character. Disney is not in our future anytime soon What I'm dreading My mom going back to school. That means that I'm solo getting 3 kids ready for daycare to leave the house before 6:15. Ahhhh What I'm working on My oils post and ge...

I live on a hamster wheel. I mean that in the best most loving way ever. Really I do. I love my babies so hard but because of them I live on a hamster wheel. Going back to work has been a little bit more of a transition than I thought. It's just once I get home and we eat dinner and get ready for the next day and feed the babies and do baths and then feed the babies again and then get everyone into bed I'm sitting down for the first time at around 9 at night. Exhausted. But I need time to unwind so I stay up for at least another half an hour watching a mindless show so that I can just shut my brain off from my never ending to do list. One thing twins has taught me, and really having 3 kids 3 and under has taught me is that I can't do it all. I have learned to say no, and to let the little things go. I suck at pictures but here is our typical work day routine (when Michael is also working) 4:45 my alarm goes off, I check on the babies over the monitor and see they a...

This is super late (they will be 3 months on Thursday oops!) but better late than never because guess what I never did their one month update. OH well. The babies are growing like weeds. And we all know I love a good fat baby so I'm in heaven. First up our girl Charlotte. Baby Girl, You are for sure my most relaxed baby ever. A true observer. You are content just laying on your play mat looking around. Your not phased by your brothers at all and trust me they both can be loud. Your currently weighting in at 11 pounds 8 ounces so you have almost doubled your birth weight and your now 22.5 inches. Your long and lean my sweet girl. You are too long for your 3 month sleepers and onsies so onto six months we go! You for sure don't eat as much as your brother but sometimes you go to town and suck down your full bottle. I'm just in love with you. I went shopping for some clothes for you the other day and I had to practice some restraint because I could have bought the whole s...

The fourth of July weekend was just plain busy I think that anytime we have to leave the house with all the kids it's crazy but we still have to do it because it's summer! and we must get out! And I know this is a week late but the week following this weekend was just as crazy ha! I think crazy it our new normal. So Friday I picked up my biggest boy from school and we went grocery shopping. Big mistake. It was the Friday before a holiday weekend and it was just a mad house. My boy was a trooper though and some baby doughnuts while he cruised in the race car cart made him super happy. We picked up dinner on the way home and then relaxed for the night and just prayed that we could get through the witching hour with the twins. They do just so happen to have the same exact witching hour that lasts not one but two hours, and that time just happens to be when we eat dinner and do baths so most nights are spent holding a baby while trying to eat, ahh life as a parent. Saturday ...

June 25th was one year since my miscarriage. I noticed the date on the calender and my heart instantlly hurt. I went right back to that exam room when he couldn't find a heartbeat with his doppler. I remember begging the ultrasound tech to squeeze me in because I couldn't wait another day to know if there was a heartbeat or not. She told me I would have to wait for her to squeeze me in. We sat in the waiting room, I tried not to cry, Michael had no words just held my hand and stared at the floor. She called us back, and I climbed up on the table and waited as she squeezed that goo on my stomach, and there was a cloudy picture, she told me I would have to have an internal one. So we go that going and she did the side by side of the baby and the heartbeat and it was a flat line. I felt the tears come and as she opened her mouth I prayed she would stop but then the words came. No heartbeat. My heart has never been so broken in my life. I couldn't figure out why? why me? why...