Simply the Smith's

Monday was the day that 7 years ago I married my wonderful husband 7 years ago we became husband and wife and while we are not the same people we were 7 years ago we are still madly in love. Listen this marriage that we have is far from perfect. I have a sharp tounge, his first reacation is anger no matter what but at the end of the day we move on from all that because love wins. Love is enough. In our seven years of marriage we have bought a house, had Grayson, had one miscarriage, had twins!, went on mulitple vacations, spent money when we shouldn't have, saved money, paid off debt, bought cars, and fell more and more in love. It's chliche when people say I only thought I loved you then. It's true. So so true. My respect for him has grown too. He's just simply amazing. Sure he can drive me up the wall crazy like no one else but I love him so much. My heart comes first to him and that is all I could ever ask for.  So here's to the seven year itch. ...

My babies start daycare today. Tiny tear. And just a tiny one because I love love love the teachers in the infant room. I dropped off the diapers yesterday so that it was one less thing to carry in while trying to get my small herd into the building. Alive. I did it and we all made it in. Seeing Grayson so proud to show of his babies was the sweetest thing. Plus his teacher said they would be taking a field trip down to the baby room to see his babies! He was so happy. Small win I don't have to send in spoons or bowls for their cereal. All the praise hands becaues that's one less thing to pack and wash. I do however have to make bottles. Because since we are not using the daycare provided formula (not because we are snobs just because my babies have sensative stomachs) I have to pre mix all of their bottles for the day. Womp womp this caused me to have to buy more bottles. Otherwise I would be washing bottles right before we had to leave in the morning and that is no bue...

This pregnancy was so different mostly because when you have two babies you have twice the hormones. Seriously, I never thought that was true but I asked my Doctor and he said yup you have double.....everything. Joy. I remember having swings after I was pregnant with Grayson. Mostly crying at the drop of a hat because he was growing up so fast. #crazymommy Well having the babies just hit the 4 month mark and my hormones are out of control. My hair is falling out. Seriously when I get out of the shower it looks like a small cat is sitting in the drain or hanging on the wall*. (* does anyone else get the hair off their fingers and then put it on the shower wall and swirl it around? No? Just me? Ok) My ovaries feel like they are going to burst and I'm having pregnancy symptoms (No I'm not pregnant it's physically impossible at least it's supposed to be because those suckers are tied up) just like I did with Grayson around this time postpartum. I'm tired all t...

This is me last night after spending 2 hours trying to get babies to bed and get everything ready for the next day I'm exhausted. I crawled into bed and then woke up to cries from my little lady and she was up on and off for the next 3 hours until I finally fed her 4 ounces and got her to go back to sleep. It was a full moon last night and my kids all got the memo to drive me crazy. Extra dose of coffee for me today. We had our trip just me and Michael and it was wonderful I slept so much and just relaxed and watched 2 movies straight through (that never happens with kids) However getting back into the swing of things and last second wedding stuff for my sister (because it's one week away!!!) is just making our schedule crazy. We have no more free days until after the wedding. Saturday is the bachelor party, Sunday we are meeting to make the favors and do the table numbers, Monday I have to finish the seating chart and print it all out, Tuesday is our final dress ...

I was about 3 weeks post partum with the twins when I had just gotten them to sleep and I heart my 3 year old still upstairs rooting around, calling my name. I remember in my hormonal/exhausted state googling "how to get my kid to sleep without drugging him"  One night while holding a baby that just would not sleep and scrolling my Instagram I saw Jessica had a new page all about oils. I jumped over,scrolled through and then got distracted (story of my life) A few weeks went by and then she had a post up about e-mail me and I will send you some info . So I didn't get distracted this time got her e-mail read through and bam I ordered a starter kit. There were a few things that really interested me about oils but I was more than excited to get the diffuser. Well one day with that thing and I had 2 more on the way to my house because I needed one for each bedroom. Crazy maybe but necessary. I'm saving up for one for the downstairs babysteps. So here are my to...

I'm going to be honest this week has been a doozy and it's only Wednesday. What's wrong? Nothing and everything all at the same time. I'm in a funk. It happens and it is what it is. We have our little trip together coming up. Michael and I decided (when Grayson was born) that our anniversary was the one time a year that we would for sure go away, no matter what just the two of us and spend at least one night somewhere special. We have gone to Cleavland, Toronto and this year since our time is limited and so are funds we are staying at our local casino in Niagara Falls. My aunt got us the room so we just have to cover meals, and any spending we want to do. So we have been saving our pennies to be able to have a good time this weekend, and you know not worry about funds I think that has put me in a funk. I'm so ready for some one on one time with Michael. We need it bad. Not that him and I are in a bad place. No we are actually doing really good but we ne...

Ahhh there is nothing like a 3 year old who knows what they want. My 3 year old is particularly stubborn (he comes by it naturally from his father both of us) Grayson was a big baby 10 pounds 4 ounces big. He come out eating 4 ounces every 4 hours and just went up from there. We introduced rice cereal at 4 months, he loved it. We then went with fruits and veggies, also loved all of those. Then we graduated to the meals in a jar. Gobbled them up. Then one day it all changed. He started refusing certain foods. So we switched it up. Then his list of foods he would eat got smaller and smaller. Now I can list out all the things he will eat and it's not that big. And forget getting him to try new foods. So here is his list Granola bars Yogurt (he really loves my vanilla greek so that's mostly what he gets sometimes he begs for the Gogurts so I cave and buy those) Nutrigrain bars Veggie/Fruit pouches Peaches Bananas Grapes (only purple because he's 3 ) Applesa...