What's it like these days...and nights

I said to Guy a while back that I don't think the new year will ever feel like the "new year" for us, rather September will. For our family, September will always be birthday month, back to school and activities, and the preview to what is always a busy fall season. I LOVE the fall, but somehow again this year it has passed me by SO quickly I honestly think I blinked and missed it. We have been BEYOND busy this fall with birthday parties, my MoMs club fall clothing sale, our big trip to Florida, getting a new swing set, Halloween and now it's already December--we seemed to just have skipped November and where has the time gone. We've had some beautiful weekends to plant spring bulbs and play outside, but for the most part I've been so busy I feel like I rarely get a chance to catch my breath before we're into something else...literally these days for the boys. I am SO behind in blogging and it often begins to feel like a chore between it and trying to post all the thousands of pictures we take. So instead what ends up happening is I take less pictures, which still haven't been posted and do less blogging, which isn't really what I want.

But besides the craziness that our lives are we are doing well. Both boys are walking all around and Justin is in fact climbing, everywhere..including into his highchair where I found him this morning, I guess he was ready to eat before I was ready to feed. Abigail is growing like a weed and is my little chatterbox.

Last Christmas I saw a newborn onesie that said "All mommy wants for Christmas is a Silent Night" while cute and very appropriate last Christmas I passed on it. When I saw it this year again I thought how sad that this is STILL all Mommy really wants for Christmas...My boys are simply NOT CONSISTENT with sleeping making it very difficult to catch up on much needed sleep for both myself and Guy. I never thought we'd still be up during the night at 14 months. In their defense...it's NOT every night but it's often enough. The other night Justin and I had our worst night in a very long time, actually about a month-but then we were in Florida with lots of help. He and I were up for hours (3 at this point), the first few I listened to him cry, I changed diapers, I fed, I gave Tylenol all to no avail and then finally I brought him into bed with me around 3am...he slept so soundly, that I almost convinced myself that it was all worth it to cuddle with him like this and that it won't be very long that we have to do this. That is until he again woke up 50 min later and was up for another 45 minutes until he then screamed until I fed him again. So as you can imagine I was beyond frustrated and this is what eats at me and has been the hardest part of having twins is the sleeping issue and the lack their of. I don't understand why the boys are up, even when they are 99% of the time Guy deals with them and they are not fed, but they are still up. Some days we also don't take good naps, that ends up making for really long days, especially when I get NO down time. However on the other hand, then can sleep 12 hours at a time, yet again just adding to the frustration that they can and i don't know what makes one night a good night and one a lets say NOT so good night!!

So here's hoping for good nights ahead and more sleep, less frustration and more time to blog the here and now and hopefully back log all of the things that I don't want to forget and still blog about!!