Cheesy Introduction Post!

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.  :)