Well, I guess that that sounds a little dramatic, but maybe I am feeling a little dramatic ok? My husband has been so round the clock busy with a job that I am pretty much single parenting the twins until Chad goes to bed. Then he gets one twin for the night and I keep the other because I don’t care how tired from working he is I am not going to go back to 3 hours of broken sleep. Nope. I just won’t do it. Not that he asked me to do that, but I am just making it clear.

Alright, now that I got that little bit of emotional outburst over let me tell you about my weekend. Friday I got home from work at 12:15 just like always, set up the piles of blankets to make our “floor bed” in the living room and just hung out with the twinsies until it was 2nd nap time. Then during their nap I did 3 miles on the elliptical, and pigged out wile watching TV on the sofa. When they woke up it was basically more of me laying on the floor bed while the twins kind of roamed around the house (I am a free range parent purely by accident) until it was time for dinner/bath/quite time. Easy peasy Friday!

Saturday I got up with the twins, my mom came over to watch them for a couple of hours so that I could go to hot yoga, then I came home showered got the twins ready and we went to the Tamale Festival and walked around a ton. The twins had a good time, I had a good time (and an avocado tamale), and my mom had a good time. Chad was at home working. Then when we got home I made dinner and just tried my best to keep the kids corralled and entertained until bedtime. Have I mentioned that bed times have gotten much better? We are still working on the staying asleep but I am just glad that I have finally got them going to sleep at all. Chad came in and gave me a hand during the nightly pajama battle, and was easily talked into sitting on the couch and watching Men In Black III. It was surprisingly good! 

Sunday was a whole lot of just me and the twins. You know, they crawl around and I just continuously check the floor for choking hazards.

Ok, so I was being a little dramatic. Taking care of the twins isn’t really too difficult what with me being ok with them thinking that they are dogs and stuff. It is just a little more mentally exhausting and stressful trying to keep a close eye on both of them without any back up. Like, oh I have to pee and leave two babies on their own for 45 seconds, omg what if they figure out how mess up my dvr recordings in 45 seconds? 

Anyway. I am just glad to be back at work today where I can take a break from constantly trying to get dog kibble out of Cash’s mouth.

I hope everyone had a good weekend-

xoxoxo

Piggy

Oh and I actually have a funny/horrifying story that I will tell you later. 

Drastically behind on my dash! I have just been so overwhelming busy! 

Friday night we had plans to see a boxing match with some friends of ours but had to cancel because Chad was not feeling well. He was so sick that I ended up calling the nanny after canceling to ask if she could still come because I needed someone to watch the twins while I took Chad to the ER! Note: if he would have just let me take him to the urgent care like I suggested 5 times we could have just done that instead. The poor guy was puking all day, body aches, you know all that good stuff. I drew the line once his vom started getting bloody and took him to the ER around 6. He had had some injections done to his back the day before and was prescribed a new med so I was kind of freaked out. We were admitted to the ER and put in a room fairly quickly, but we were there for almost 8 hours! In 8 hours they gave my husband 1 bag of fluids, and he was so dehydrated that it barely made him pee! We finally got to leave with the diagnosis of, “It might be the flu”. Booo.

My mom helped me fill up the weekend with the twins so that Chad could rest and not pass it to us if he was contagious. On Saturday we took the twins to the reservation in Morongo and visited with my Grandma Bev. I was pretty tired so I just laid on the floor and let the twins crawl around and stuff. They were pretty clingy but Patience let Grandma hold her for a while and I know that it made her happy. She is one grumpy old Indian lady but she loves her some babies.

On Sunday my mom and I took the twins to The Living Desert and walked, and walked, and walked. The babies are a little young to care about animals and such but I think that they had a good time being outside and the weather was great. It is so hot here during the summer that the only time we go outside is to get into the car so that we can drive to a place with AC. So it was nice to do something different with them. 

Chad is feeling better now, we still don’t know what made him so sick! Oh did I mention that the twins turned 10 months yesterday? I am going to work on an update when I get some more time.

I know it is late but I hope that everyone enjoyed their weekend!

xoxo-

Piggy

So, I purposely didn’t mention it until now, but Friday was the first time that we spent and entire night away from the babies. We are planning on going to Las Vegas for 3 nights at the end of this month and thought that it would be wise to have a trial run to make sure that I would not freak out and make us drive 5 hours to come home without even spending one night.

We went to dinner with some friends, sat through some of a concert, got dessert and drinks, then stayed in a hotel room. Now, how do I say this without it being taken the wrong way? I did not miss the twins at all! Ok, that is an exaggeration. I did check on them 2 times though out the evening… what I mean to say is, I did not miss the twins at all once it was time to go to bed. 

1st of all, Chad and I were able to boom boom. We NEVER get to do that. Like, NEVER. You don’t really get it until you have 2 babies that don’t sleep. Ever. So, yeah, that was nice. Then, I went to sleep laying in whatever position that I found comfortable. It was awesome. I woke up once at 4:30 am and was PISSED, went back to sleep, then woke up at 8:00 am. Then BAM it hit me. I wanted to be home with the twins instantly. I don’t think that we have ever checked out of a hotel room so fast, because as soon as I was awake I had all the separation anxiety that I had expected to have though out the entire night. 

We got home just as the twins were waking up and I snuggled and nursed them the entire day. Oh, did I mention that the sitters (there were 2) informed me that each baby only woke up one time? Seriously, what am I doing wrong here? It has to be something that we/I am doing that is making this sleep situation so difficult. Help me! Help me! Help!

The rest of the weekend flew by! We had lunch with my oldest friend and her family at Islands (I have a love of chain restaurants), got cupcakes, watched The Lorax, and I drank beer. Saturday is cheat day on our diet. Sunday Patience took a nap with her daddy while Cash and I went to Target and stocked up on all the crapola we need to stock up on.

It was a nice weekend.

Not a whole lot happened this weekend. We took the kids to Ikea on Saturday, I ate 4 Krispy Kreme doughnuts in 8 minutes (it was cheat day! Geez!), then on Sunday I drank all the beers while Chad built out a play room for the twins. 

Sooo…. Wraaaaaaps…. are off limits on the diet that I am on week 3 of.

Slow Carb. Not sure why it is called Slow Carb when essentially all carbs are banned from the menu except for on sweet sweet cheat day (or cheat weekend). 

A regular day’s meals are pretty boring and repetitive, but if you really really look at what you are already eating you probably repeat meals pretty frequently anyway. Week one of this diet was INSANE. I was a ball of white hot rage and hate. I spent most of the time locked in my office as to avoid contact with other humans.

Now a couple of days into week 3 it isn’t that bad, and I have finally started to drop some weight. I was getting a little discouraged, hence how cheat day became cheat weekend.

So, this weekend I enjoyed:

2 watermelon margaritas, a cob salad with cheese and dressing, waaaayyy too many KK doughnuts, almost a tub of ginger snaps, and A LOT of Bud Light. Oh, and my first Starbucks in 2 weeks, also, cake pops. Lots and lots of cake pops.  I ate more than that but those were boring diet meals.

I will now remember my weekends by the foods I eat.

I want to post about the playroom but need to wait until I can get some decent photos.

Smooches. 

Piggy

I am usually pretty inactive here on Tumblr over the weekends, but I still creep everyone’s blogs to see what ya’ll are up to. However this weekend I was go go going non stop so I am hopelessly out of touch with your lives. Tumblr Fail.

Friday I ditched work and saw the 8 am showing of The Dark Night Rises. It was so amazing that as soon as the credits rolled I whipped out my phone to post on FB, and saw the news about what had happened at the midnight showing in CO. It made me absolutely sick and gave me the shakes to still be in the theatre and read that. My heart aches for the victims and their families. This is why I stay away from the news people! I like to be blissfully ignorant of the world.

Friday night my girlfriend drove down from the LBC for the weekend. We put the twins to bed (for the 2nd time), drank some vino, and watched Batman Begins. Well, my husband tried to watch it, the two of us chatted and giggled mostly. I went to bed at midnight since I know that the twins wake up around 4:30 every morning and continue to do so every 20 minutes until I finally get out of bed. 

On Saturday morning me and my lovely friend took the twins to the pool here at the resort. Thank god we did it before it go too hot. We only stayed outside with them for about and hour and a half because it was already well over 100 degrees and humid. Yuck. As always though, the twinsies had fun in the pool. The best part is that they got so tired out that they slept through lunch and most of a trip to Target! 

So, blah blah blah, why am I telling you all about my weekend (other than the fact that I do it just about every Monday)? Saturday night I had my first “girls night” in forever and a day. I actually usually do my best to avoid “girls night”. I like going places with my husband, I do believe I have told you guys about my co-dependent tendencies. So, right before we were about to leave for the night Chad comes out and says, “I am going to go see Batman again with Kiwi instead of going to the concert with you guys”. Umm..WAT? It was really weird to go out without him! I had fun, but it was weird.

My LBC girlfriend and I drove to the resort and met up with my hawt Brit friend, and did this:

No, that is not a maternity shirt… damn nursing bewbs make everything look like I am wearing maternity clothes.

SO much fun you guys! I had a great time! Also, Rajah/Sutan was sitting in the crowd near me so I spent 50% of the show openly gaping at him and drooling at his clutch. I love him so!

Yesterday was spent recovering from Saturday.

<3

What a great/exhausting weekend!

On Thursday I left work after my important Thursday meeting, raced home to pack, nagged at the husband to hurry up, helped him load up the car and off we went!

We drove to New Port to pick up some gear that he needed for his stage, and the twins did great in the car. We could hear them playing with the toy bars attached to their car seats for the first little way and soon they were off to sleep. After stopping for Chad to do his business type stuff and for the babes to nurse we drove down the coast for a bit until we found a pretty little beach to stop at. 

Seriously you guys, the twins were super stars at the beach! Random people wanted to take pictures of them and little kids could not get enough of them! Chad usually takes the lead in those types of situations, as I clam up and avoid contact. It is so cool to me when I see Chad tell strangers all about the babies, and I can just see the pride bursting out of him. We took lots of photos to memorialize our first trip to the beach as a family and I can’t wait to frame my favorite one.

Seriously, my fam is SO Hollywood.

After the stop at the beach things got a little rough. We drove down towards SD while Chad started looking for a place to stay. I am definitely not spontaneous, so that shit stresses me out. The twins started crying since they were sick of facing the back seat, traffic was annoying. Blah. Anyway, Chad ended up finding The Surfer Beach Hotel, where we got an ocean view room for under 200 bucks! It was wonderful! AND THE TWINS SLEPT FOR ALMOST 8 HOURS! It was ah-mayyyyy-zing! I kept waking up and fidgeting because I am so used to being up constantly. Don’t get too excited though, they went right back to their normal schedule as soon as we got home. 

Friday morning started out a little rough. I just don’t know why, but it has been very difficult for my husband to understand that the babies don’t want to just lay around. They need to be entertained. So while he spent hours lounging around the small (but great) hotel room, I spent hours trying to entertain the twins and keep them from getting more and more fussy. There was an argument. Not a blow out, but definitely not a civil conversation either. I finally told him that I actually think that it is quite MEAN of him to spend so much time resting/napping/lounging right in front of me while I am constantly juggling two infants. He seemed to think that since he took us on a spontaneous vacation to the beach he could do no wrong (it wasn’t Fiji buddy), and I actually told him that it wasn’t a nice treat if he was going to make my life harder by having us cooped up in a hotel room! At least at home there are all the twin’s toys and swings and such, not to mention FOOD for mom. Not to be a harpy, but I finally had to tell him that he is probably the only parent on earth that thinks 10 am is early to be up and at em. It was pretty much a dumb argument that led to me finally getting some things that have been building up as resentments off my chest. 

Other than that we had a nice day. We put the twins in the city select and walked the boardwalk looking for breakfast where I enjoyed a tasty bloody mary as well as a veggie omelet while side eying all the skinny sun kissed girls jogging a long side the restaurant. We did a little shopping and a lot more walking. The twins did great and nursed as well as took bottles. I think that they loved being out and about! We had dinner at Joe’s Crab Shack (Chad’s choice) and I don’t think I will be doing that again. Well, at least not at that location. IT WAS NUTS! SO loud and crazy that poor Cash was terrified and clung to me the entire time. Somehow Patience slept through most of dinner.

Saturday morning Chad was very helpful and we drove home.

Can I please tell you all that yesterday morning Chad sat with fussy babies so that I could sleep/rest until 9:30 in the morning? It was unexpected and appreciated! He also helped me keep them entertained so that I could get ready and get them ready to go to a cousin’s birthday party with my mother. I so hope that he really picked up what I put down on Saturday morning. I am all for letting him relax and what not, but is it really sleeping in if you get out of bed at 11 consistently? No. I don’t think so.

I hope that everyone enjoyed their weekends.