He loves me, He loves me not....

So today my neighbors little granddaughter came over to play with Mollie. The girls were sitting on the front porch playing My Little Ponies and I went outside to sit with them for a little while and this lady was walking up the sidewalk with a basket of flowers. She came to my walkway and said "Are you Danielle?" I told her I was and she handed me the basket of flowers. It was full of white daisies. The card reads "Hope this brightens your day as much as you have brightened mine." I was pleasantly surprised. It is things like this that make me love my husband. I am going to try and be a wonderful wife this weekend and hope that I get more flowers.

I have a great friend...

So today I walked the mall with Manda. I need to loose weight and I really enjoy her company. Ada was so sweet and full of smiles. It is nice to be friends with her. I enjoy talking to her and it is nice to know that the way I feel sometimes is normal. Her friendship means alot to me. So THANKS FOR BEING A GREAT FRIEND MANDA! We had lunch at the Panda Express and while we were there, a man asked me about my stroller. Come to find out his twins girls are in the NICU. So Manda talked to him about that. I didn't really have much to say because the twinies came home with me and weren't in the NICU but he seemed to really take in what Manda said! I hope that guy's little daughters get strong and healthy and come home soon. If I ever need to know anything about anything, I think I can ask Manda.

Baby Report Card.....

Babies fed...CHECK...Babies bathed...CHECK...Babies changed...CHECK...Babies asleep...CHECK...and all of this before 10 p.m. I have 5 minutes to spare. Mommy fed...NOPE...Mommy bathed...NOPE...Mommy tired...CHECK!!! But not complaining because now I can sit and enjoy some quiet before Clint gets home. So today was a better day! Went to the park and had fun with Manda, Ada, Cindy and Alex. It was good company and the twins seem to really like being outside. They just lay on the blanket under the tree and look around. Of course Ada loves to kiss the babies and she even calls them "Kitty"! It is fun to hang out with Manda and Cindy. They have some cute babies.

Tonight I have managed to get the twins to be awake and not cry. I put them each in a bouncer, fed them and then gave them each a bath. After I put them in their jammies we all just sat on the couch and they both just looked around and cooed. It was sweet and nice to know they can be awake and not cry without being held. I was starting to think that they were spoiled. But then I reminded myself, my babies aren't spoiled! Yeah right they are as spoiled as spoiled can be.

I am starting to adjust to not working. It is a bittersweet feeling. On one hand there is nothing I love more than spending my days caring for my kids and being on my own schedule. If I want to go to lunch with friends or wear my jammies all day, I can. I am certainly not upset about saving the $1800.00 bucks a month it would have cost me for daycare. I am not mad about saving all the money in gas to Fairfax. But then on the other hand, I miss getting out of the house everyday and going to work. I miss feeling important as far as being a career mom. I loved working. I loved my friends at work. I do not miss the traffic! I just wish there was a solution. I was thinking about taking this class at Germanna in Phlebotomy. I could get a job at the hospital at nights and still be home with them during the day and not shipping them off to a day care for someone else to raise! The class isn't that long a few months at best and isn't really that expensive. Maybe I should look into it. But is that really what I want to do? Not sure!

I am impressed with how good my downstairs looks. Clint did most of it Saturday but I did the top of my cabinets finally! It looks so good. I find myself going into the kitchen just gazing at the top of my cabinets. I probably smile when I look up there because I am just that happy with them!

Tomorrow is walk the mall with Manda! Maybe we can make this a weekly thing. I need to do something to loose this "junk in the trunk" I have since way back when. I want to fit back into some clothes without having to lay on the bed and suck in my tummy to button my pants! I am sure I will be just fine. I just want to take off about 25 more pounds.

Where is my Sanity???

I think I lost it when we brought the twins home from the hospital or maybe it was the day I had Mollie or maybe it was the day I got married or maybe even it was lost the day I was born. Some day I feel like the day is not long enough and other days I feel like I the day needs to hurry up and be over. Today is one of those (hurry up and be over) days. I think today could have possibly been one of the worst days of my life. I don't really want to go into details but let me just say it was BAD!!! Tomorrow will be better I am sure! I know that tomorrow is "Lunch in the Park" and I know that tomorrow today will be over.

So when do you start feeding your baby/ies jar food? When do babies sleep thru the night? At what age do babies start to sit up? At what age do they start to crawl? I am such a horrible mother that I can't remember when I did this stuff with Mollie. I think I fed her bananas at 2 and 1/2 months and I know that she cut her first tooth on 4th of July, 2003 and that she took her first steps 3 days before her first birthday and she was walking by her 1st birthday. I really would like to know when the twins will stop being so boring and start entertaining me! I mean I enjoy my babies but man are they boring. They just eat, poop, pee, sleep and cry and then repeat. I mean I want for them to entertain themselves if even for 10 minutes so I can take a shower. I am hoping that in the next month things will start to get a little better. Maybe that is wishful thinking.

I think I want to go back to school. I want to get a degree even if it is an Associates Degree. I want some sort degree that has to do with Education. I always wanted to be a Kindergarten Teacher. But the man upstairs had other plans for me. Now I think since I am staying home I should but myself to work and go back to school. What is the process? How will we afford it? Can I do it?

So long Sunday....

What a busy day I have had.....This morning it was church, which I must say was a very wonderful sermon. They had an Honor Guard there to present the colors and then they played the "theme song" for each branch of service and asked that if you were serving or had served to stand up when your "theme" played. Of course they played the Marine Corps. Hymn last (Clint says they saved the best for last!!) and Clint stood up. Then we came home after church and I changed all the girls and then I loaded up the kids and headed out to my Aunt Cindy's house for a cook out/pool party! Mollie swam all afternoon and the babies got much attention from all the family. Clint was at home getting ready for his night job! When I got home I worked on the massive cleaning my house is getting. It felt nice to get a little decorating in! We have been in this house almost a year and there is very little decorating!

So now I am at home watching Extreme Home Makeover. Why do I watch shows like this? I am going to get up here and wash the few dishes that are dirty and make some Sweet Tea. I love me some Sweet Tea! The twins are laying on the couch with me and I jsut heard Katelyn let out two massive farts! That girl is soooo gassy!

I am going to start counting down the days until our family vacation. We are going to Little Rock Arkansas on July 11th. We are taking all the kids and Clint's sister Dustee and her new husband Greg are coming down with their three kids, Lauren, J.D. and Kain! We are all looking forward to getting together for fun times and some R&R! Clint's dad has an inground pool and lots of land. I bet the kids will have a blast. I will have a blast too! Hope the weather is nice while we are there!

Congratulations Rachel!

Rachel is my future sister-in-law. She is dating my brother Josh who is in the Marine Corps. She is off to Longwood College with the goal to become an Art Teacher. Well anyways, she had her graduation party today and the girls and I went. She lives on Lake Anna so Mollie got to get wet and I got to visit with some friends and the babies just got held all afternoon long. Plus my brother was home on leave so it was great to see him!


When I got home, my whole downstairs was clean. Clint has been one busy man. He has organized and rearranged and my house is looking great.

What a great weekend so far. Hope the rest of the holiday is this good!

Just like Shrek the Third.....

So I had the girls in two of their bouncers because it is easy to feed both of them that way. After I was done feeding them, I went into the kitchen to rinse out their bottles and came back to find a third baby in a bouncer. I questioned Mollie who told me that we needed to have "Triplets just like Shrek the Third." Here is my newest baby. Thank goodness she never gets hungry and sleeps thru the night!