Calmly Chaotic

My birthday happens to be one week before Christmas (interesting fact... I was due on Christmas Day)... this year I am hoping for clothes, the non boring type yet the okay to get spit up on type...

What are you loving these days?

Okay Santa, it's our first year here and we've been good... no wait... make that awesome... so here's the inside scoop on what we are hoping lands under our tree...




There you have it... that's our list.

Oh and Mommy's already clued us in to the fact that you prefer wine over mi…

I apologize for the lack of quality posts this week... Andrew's cold turned into the babies cold... and I went from feeling slightly less energizer bunnyish to just plain tired.  I've been laying low at home with the babies, keeping them nice and warm inside away from the snow that arrived …

Isla meet Alice, Alice meet Isla...

now dance...







I was starting to wonder if either of you would ever notice there was another little person in the room with you... and then all of a sudden you are all over each other.

I am loving it...

The words I was so dreading.... I think I'm getting sick... were spoken by Andrew on Friday.
I immediately pictured myself running all over the house with disinfectant (which of course we don't own), sanitizing any surface that had possibly come into contact with Andrew... yes I do have tra…

and again, and sometimes again...

Growing up there was a house in our neighborhood that I used to refer to as the village, well I used to call it half of a house since they lived in a semi and I didn't realize that many many people live in semis, townhomes and condos.  When you walked by this h…

When I was pregnant I posted a few options that we were looking at regarding baby wearing carriers and wraps.  Well we headed off to Milkface, a local babywearing store and tried out a few options.  I picked the hug-a-bub but actually bought the sleepy wrap since it was very similar and much cheape…

I hope the weekend treated you well.  Ours was spent in the confines of our suburb... I now feel as though I have fully given in to the appeal of suburban living... hell I've embraced it.  On Saturday I did manage to venture outside of this suburb and into another one for a body attack class.  …

Okay it's cold out.  I took the girls out for a walk today... well it felt like tonight since it was 4 pm and the sun was setting... why does daylight savings exist... and it was cold... like winter cold.  I can just sense that snow is around the corner.  The one good thing that snow signifies …

Today a little break was in order.  I knew it was time to take a little mommy time out when I fell asleep in the tub ... last night... for the second time.  I've felt like an energizer bunny these past three months and have never really experienced the sleep deprived, energy sucking state that …

Thank you for all of your lovely comments yesterday on Isla and Alice's three month post!

I am especially happy with the photos I posted... not because I claim to be some amazing photographer but because we bought ourselves an early Christmas present this past weekend... in camera form.  We'…

dear isla and alice,

on Sunday you were three months old.



I can't believe how big you are now.  It's so hard to believe that you ever shared the same dwelling in my tummy.


You both smile at me all of the time.  I especially love the big, open mouthed smiles... they melt my heart.  You two…

I haven't seen my husband clean shaven since oh maybe our wedding day.  When he came home yesterday and I got a good look at him (not like the semi conscious look I got that morning in bed when he said goodbye before he left for work) I thought he was an impostor.... a much younger and noticeab…

November 1st marks the first day of NaNoWriMo.... "thirty days and nights of literary abandon" where one must concoct a 50 000 word novel by the end of November.  I first heard of this event a year ago and I actually thought about doing it.  Well it was my backup plan if our IVF cycle was…