Simply the Smith's

I hate our highchairs. I just bought two of the ones that strap to the  chairs and they will be eating off of those from now on because cleaning up the ones we have now are awful they have too many places food can get into and our sweet Charlotte makes sure that she rubs her dinner over every single inch of her highchair. I spent 45 mins cleaning the chairs last night and it drove me insane. Still have no idea when I mopped all the floors at the same time. However my dining room floor and kitchen floor are spotless I have to mop them daily because of all the food my kids think is fun to throw on the floor. My bathroom floor is clean too because every night they think it's Sea world and splash half the water out of the tub. I come out of there soaked too. Now as I'm typing this I need to get some more bath towels because I'm still trying to dry off my one year old's with baby towels. Ha! We lived out of baskets for like 2 weeks. So I already failed on that new...

Now that I'm a year (plus) past my twin pregnancy it's strange to look back on I mean I carried around two babies in my belly for 35 weeks. And those two babies equaled 13.5 pounds. Yeah let that sink in. Plus they were 19 inches each. I mean that's a lot of baby in one stomach.  Talk about stretching  I was huge.  I have found out (after the fact) that they called me torpedo at work because that's what looked like was coming out of my stomach Looking back man how did I do that? I can remember now feeling like my stomach was going to rip right open or that I was going to stand up once and my water would break. Getting off the couch was something I had to mentally prepare for. At the end I was getting up to use the bathroom every hour. Sleep happened in increments of a few hours. I watched more Nick at Nite than anyone should plus all 8 season of Sister Wives because they were on TLC GO Eating was a chore because I would be star...

Comparison is the thief of joy. How true is that? Just this last week someone tried to steal my joy as a mother. The questions I was asked was "How worried are you that Charlotte isn't walking yet like her brother?" I kindly smiled and said "not at all" But then later that night when my house was quiet and I had time to let things creep into my mind I started over think the situation. Marshall has been walking for about 3 weeks now. Straight up walking everywhere and trying (and sometimes successfully) to climb (ing) everything. Charlotte is cruising along furniture using her little push toys to get everywhere but not independently walking. Once that comment was made I started to wonder. Is she behind? Wait should I be worried? Is something wrong with her legs?  And a million other ridiculous things that should have never come into my mind. I closed my eyes and prayed for peace at that moment and asked for my joy back because gues...