Full disclosure, the majority of this post is not about my gremlins. Just fyi. Summer off and running and I’m sweaty already. Less sweaty than last year of course when I was having to keep a little more giddy-up in my step at all times to make it to the bushes in time to spew… Continue reading Necessary.

Since literally the second I held Spencer when he was born my mommy red flags were flapping around in the breeze. I couldn’t pinpoint what it was at first but I told Gates, “Something is different about this one”. It didn’t help that he looked like this in the beginning before he started plumping out:… Continue reading All’s well that ends well

Someone paid me a huge compliment recently when they told me that I “make twins look easy”. First of all, I am considering it an enormous win if at least one person in the world looks at me and thinks I’m even marginally competent at parenting. And secondly, this is someone who actually interacts with… Continue reading Easy peasy

And just like that it’s time for me to return to the land of scrubs and speculums. 12 weeks over in the blink of an eye, except for those nights when the only rest our eyes got was blinking. And crying. I had to send an email to someone at work about something before I… Continue reading Fun’s over

“OMG… TWINS?!” Another day, another dime a dozen comments from strangers. But to be fair, we may be the only people putting 2 newborns  in matching carseats down on barstools and then posting up to drink a Zombie Dust or 6 at the neighborhood dive bar that the local crowd has seen in awhile. But… Continue reading Living the dream

We are already 1 month into this whole 3 under 3 thing! Things are going way too well at home, suspiciously well in fact. Somehow maternity leave this time around has been completely like a lazy staycation, made up entirely of breastfeeding in front of Netflix or a book, and otherwise lounging in bed eating… Continue reading c’mon down to crazy town

Holy KitKats my friends! And also their cousin, Holy Cannoli. This has been the very best week of my life and I am not even sure where to begin so we will dial it back and start at the beginning of where I believe we left off… The day before Babygate(s) 2.0 Gates turned the… Continue reading A whole new world

November has been a very rude month, which is rude. But none of that matters, because we MADE IT to planned baby time! It felt like the longest and shortest 9 months of my life and I am so very, very thankful for what my body did, without any help from me. Knowing the twins… Continue reading closing arguments

I know I keep saying how I don’t believe in signs and omens and all that jazz yet I keep blabbering on about double rainbows and such WELL then a few weeks ago when Gates and I were driving back from somewhere a freaking mob of starlings descended on our car like something out of… Continue reading I saw the sign

I blinked and it’s the 3rd trimester already! I honestly cannot believe it. Despite how different and more difficult this pregnancy has been for me than when I was pregnant with Olivia it really has seemed just to fly by. I think maybe because with a first pregnancy you have a ton more downtime thanks… Continue reading Third Tri’s a Charm