It is hard to know where to start with this first post. I've written so
many blogs that I was almost certain no one would ever care to read, or
would be read by very few, but this one is different because this is
the one that I hope will be ready, AND will make people want to come
back and read more.
As you've read, I consider myself a hippie at this point in my life. I
did NOT start out this way. Many years, many trials and many
tribulations led me to the day in my life that I woke up and realized I
wanted to be a mom. Going into all of that is too much now, but we'll
get there one day.
Let's just start with a humble and cheesy introduction.
I am a thirty-something year old mother of twins, a boy and a girl. They
will be two in just a couple months. They are a delight...a joy...a
blessing. They are happy, playful, delightful. They are loud, fast and
SMART. Daddy Nev and I never sit still for very long these days. *smile*
When we were first married we talked a lot about the kind of parents we
wanted to be. As I progressed through my pregnancy we talked a big game
about discipline, time-outs, spankings, crying-it-out, vaccines...on and
on. Our view of child-rearing and parenting was very mainstream until
the day we laid eyes on our babies. I immediately knew I would never
let them cry alone and I would never raise my hand to them. I found that
I had an instinct when it came to my children and in almost every
situation I seemed to know what was best, and I had a great peace when I
followed my instinct instead of the instructions I read in a book. It
seems every parenting book contradicted the one before it anyway!
That is how it all began, and everything else has just sort of evolved
from that point. I have talked so much about beginning this blog, and
I'm so glad I finally did it. I hope that I can hold your interest. I
hope I can entertain you, and that you will keep coming back. I plan to
use this forum to share things I have learned, ponder things I am still
trying to figure out and give a window into the crazy and chaotic life
of a mother of multiples. Oh, I'm also a working mother, and my husband
is a stay-at-home-dad. We'll talk about that from time to time as well
since that's what the blog is really all about. :)
