Weekly Randoms 1/27-2/3

[SassyPants150]

Random thoughts this week?

[SassyPants150]

I'm participating in a fashion show fundraiser at the gym. I'm modeling workout clothes and I just really don't feel like it. I'm sure it will be fun but blah to having to "work the stage" feeling like a blimp.

[mymorningcoffee]

I hate winter. There are snow drifts outside taller than my kids, and there is no sign off stopping. I wish Christmas were in March or something. After Christmas, I'm done with winter, but it has only just begun.

[mymorningcoffee]

Jan 27, 2015 10:02:46 GMT -5 SassyPants150 said:

I'm participating in a fashion show fundraiser at the gym. I'm modeling workout clothes and I just really don't feel like it. I'm sure it will be fun but blah to having to "work the stage" feeling like a blimp.

It's pretty cool that you are doing this. I wish pregnant women felt beautiful and powerful rather than fat (I know I pretty much felt like a beached whale the whole time), and you are helping show that a pregnant body is a beautiful one! That and I am sure you are going to look awesome! 

[twofold]

My preemies are acting less and less like preemies/babies and more like toddlers and I can't handle it - it went TOO FAST!!

I've also started working on their birthday party cause it'll be a lot of DIY.

I can't believe in ~2.5 months I'll have "1 year old twins". When did this happen?!

[SassyPants150]

twofold Do you have a theme? I had so much fun putting a little theme together for DD's party. I can only imagine the fun that can be done with a double birthday party!

[twofold]

I think we're going to go with 'Milk & Cookies'! Can't have one without the other

[SassyPants150]

I can't believe that I'm starting over with not one but two newborns. DD is so independent (3) and I feel tired thinking about what all is to come!

[anakah]

Jan 27, 2015 20:58:12 GMT -5 SassyPants150 said:

I can't believe that I'm starting over with not one but two newborns. DD is so independent (3) and I feel tired thinking about what all is to come!

Somehow it all works out. After having #3 though, I'm not sure how we managed with the two the first go around. It's all a blur. Lol.

[kels09]

It amazes me how much my boys are so alike yet different. Lol I know it makes no sense but they have very different personalities and yet they have the same likes when it comes to how they like their food and they always have the same ailments. If one is sick so is the other. They also are both having surgery for a hernia on the same side in the same place.

[kels09]

Jan 27, 2015 20:58:12 GMT -5 SassyPants150 said:

I can't believe that I'm starting over with not one but two newborns. DD is so independent (3) and I feel tired thinking about what all is to come!

We are always surprised at how we manage. There is 10 years between DD and the boys it literally was starting all over again. Yet we make it through every challenge. L sees a therapist every Tuesday and today she just looked at me and said she didn't how she would handle two! Granted it was while boys boys were screaming to be picked up because they were tired.

[ashb62]

Jan 27, 2015 20:58:12 GMT -5 SassyPants150 said:

I can't believe that I'm starting over with not one but two newborns. DD is so independent (3) and I feel tired thinking about what all is to come!

My DD was almost 6 and started Kindergarten about a month before the twins were born. It was an adjustment for sure! It had gotten so easy to go do things. No diaper bag. No stroller. Now it's quite a production to just get out of the house. I wouldn't have it any other way, though!

[SassyPants150]

We are going to go look at a Toyota Sequoia tomorrow. I cleaned out my car just in case we end up buying it. There are so few in the entire southeast with the features we are looking for.

DH finally agreed with me to no hospital visitors this time until we give the green light. DH acts like he can't ask his parents to respect his requests and said "I can't tell them they can't come to the hospital". ILs annoyed the shit out of me last time by practically camping out at the hospital (and in my room when I could have been resting) and rushing in as soon as DD was born. There is so much uncertainty with this labor/delivery time that I wish I could find more polite ways to tell everyone to fuck off.

[neongreen]

Jan 28, 2015 22:01:00 GMT -5 SassyPants150 said:

We are going to go look at a Toyota Sequoia tomorrow. I cleaned out my car just in case we end up buying it. There are so few in the entire southeast with the features we are looking for.

I put a deposit down on a 2015 Ford Edge yesterday. Nothing like planning for the hurricane of STUFF that is going to take over our lives!

In other random news, I weighed myself this morning, and I did manage to accomplish the 20 pounds in 20 weeks. (I've heard both 20 in 20 and 24 in 24 as guidelines/recommendations.) I have no idea where it all went, as I still don't look super-pregnant unless you know, but hey, I won't argue. (I tried posting in HDBD, but I keep getting an error message.) Even the car salesman yesterday said he never would have guessed I was pregnant, let alone with twins.

[twinmomplusone]

So much stress with looking a bigger car.

[ashb62]

I realized yesterday that it's been two years since we found out we were having twins. I can't believe how quickly time flies!

[mrsp419]

We are trying to get our house on the market. It is a doublewide trailer that is pretty nice, but has no storage and a really open floor plan (so the mess is always out in the open). Needless to say, with four kids in the house including two infants and all their gear (and a crap ton of laundry cycling through), it is impossible to keep things looking "show ready." So we made the decision this week that we are going to "half" move in with my parents while we try to sell our house. We are going to do most of our living there, but keep a lot of our stuff at our house so it looks lived in, but much much cleaner. I think it is the best solution for us, and my parents are awesome, but I am definitely a bit nervous about moving six people to mom and dad's for who knows how long. We are just praying our house sells quick and we can get into a new (and BIGGER) house soon!

[breezyweezer]

SassyPants150 You are beautiful and will make a great model! Just remember to work that confidence

My random is that I am having panic attacks about money. I have been trying to think how I can work once the babies get here, and I just don't know if we can do it. There is no way we can afford daycare, so I would need to work when my fiance is off and also when he is not in school, which would make me able to work 3 days a week and only in the evenings on two of those days. This is going to turn into a novel but I just don't understand how it is possible..like who is going to hire me and work around THAT kind of schedule? I have no family that can watch them either, and the other crazy thing is that I will be scared to leave my fiance alone with the twins when they are still really little! I feel bad saying that and I know he will do his best but I am just a control freak I guess. Also I want to breast feed and having to pump all the time so he could feed them wears me out thinking about it. If I don't find some kind of job though we will be living on $1,100/month with two children. I just never wanted to raise my kids in poverty like that. I hope I can make their lives as good as possible even though we are poor. Ok damn sorry to rant but this has been heavy on my mind for weeks.