**Note: I started this post on Friday Jan 15th…

So, this morning was a shitty morning. I’m not going to lie. Hubby got up and went to work as usual, waking me up just before he went downstairs to warn me that the girls were already awake.

I didn’t think this morning would be so much trouble, but it was… and here’s how I handled it.. Tell me if you could do better.. really.

So as I got out of bed, out of my warm electric blanketed bed, my girls asked if they could have my iPhone. Typically it’s not an issue. But this morning, it changed everything.

I let Monkey Do play with it for a bit as long as she promised to share it with Monkey See. I told them to sit tight, and let me take a very quick shower… Usually my showers are very quick… I’m all about water conservation ya know! Anyhow, I get into the shower, start washing my hair, and the I hear fighting. I told Monkey Do to put my iPhone on the bathroom counter. Little did I know that that request was going to change the course of my morning. Monkey Do didn’t have my phone, so in order to get it from her sister, instead of asking for it, like any normal person, I hear this wailing cry. I jump out of the shower, soap still in my hair, and Monkey See is walking towards me crying.

“Sister bit me” she tells me..

I flip.

“Where did she bite you?”

Monkey See lifts up her shirt to reveal a nasty bite mark just below her chest.

wow.

I yelled for Monkey Do, who conveniently took off for her bedroom… I showed her Monkey See’s chest, and just couldn’t really hold back. I got angry, I yelled, and I sent her to her room. Oh she knew I was mad. She knew I was very mad. I let her sit in her room for a while and think about it. I finished my shower, dried off, and got dressed. Monkey See was laying in my bed, still sniffling, so I checked on her. Yup, her chest was definitely going to bruise. I asked her why her sister bit her..> She told me it was because she wouldn’t give back the iPhone… Oh great.. so I indirectly caused this?? UGH! I called Monkey Do back to my room… more like yelling at her, but that’s beside the point… I showed her what she did to her sister and asked her if she would like it if her sister did that back to her. Of course the answer was no… I sent her back to her room, told her to sit on her bed and plan on staying there most of the day…. Oh the flood gates opened. Sure I didn’t mean that she’d really stay there all day, but she didn’t know that.

I sat with Monkey See for a while, talking to her about all the great things having a sister means, and having a TWIN sister to boot! I explained how I didn’t like seeing them fight, and how biting is always a no-no, etc etc etc… After  few minutes of talking I took her into her bedroom to sit with Monkey Do and gave her the same speech. As I talked to her, I mentioned the time when she was bit in the arm by another girl at the gym, and told her to remember how badly that hurt. I showed her Monkey See’s chest, and told her to think about it happening to her all over again… That’s what her sister felt… Finally, I had her look her sister in the eye, and apologize. They gave each other the biggest hug.. Ah to be young and sisters…

And they never fought again… yeah right…

Every year during the holidays, I do a lot of photo editing and uploading.. which usually means I’ll go through the older albums. I usually end up sitting at my computer reminiscing over the previous years. This time, Halloween really got me. I have looked back over the photos of my girls, from their first Halloween as cute little witches to this this year as Barbie cheerleaders, and I just don’t know where the time went.

When we first found out we were expecting, we were elated. Daddy had begged for so long for children. I didn’t want to start having kids until we were back home, and he was out of the USMC. Greedy, I know… I just couldn’t chance having children and then him getting deployed somewhere. Yes, families do that all the time. I know. I give them major props… I just was too scared to do it myself. Anyway.. I digress.. Then when the girls were born, life as we knew it had changed. We were now in charge of taking care of two little lives, teaching them, molding them… you know.. everything parents do for their children… and we were excited, scared, and anything in between.

I still just can’t believe how much they have grown. It’s only been 4 years, and they look/act like little adults. they’re so smart and funny, and mature… at least we like to think so .. and you can just see it in their photos…  I still can’t believe how fast they’ve grown…

Halloween 2006

Halloween 2007

Halloween 2008

Halloween 2009

Wow. The last update is in January eh?? Well, there’s been a whole lot going on since January. Let’s see. In March, I went to Austin, TX for a conference called SXSW. That was a whole lotta fun and excitement. It was a week away, my first trip ever away from the girls, and it was 5 days. I was having a hard time with it. Luckily, there’s this thing called the internet… and Skype… I made it a point to come back and video chat with them (and hubby) every night.

In April, I was asked to be on a panel of 12 Challengers for the EA SPORTS Active 30 day challenge. I went to beautiful Santa Barbara, CA for the filming & kickoff of the 30 Day Challenge. I met and learned from Bob Greene.. He was pretty amazing…

The day after I got home from that trip, we moved to North Carolina. It wasn’t a quick move either. We drove across the whole damn country. We had just barely missed every natural disaster that could’ve been thrown at us. I’m not going to tell the entire story all over again.. You can read it all here. The good news is that we made it to our destination safe and sound despite a few major hiccups along the way.

Since we moved to NC, I’ve been to NYC and Chicago for a couple of different events, and possibly have another event planned for Las Vegas… We’ll have to see about that one though. The girls have turned 4. We’ve been to the beach several times, and hopefully will several times more. We’ve been to the “big city” a.k.a. Raleigh 2 times now, shopped at the outlet stores one time more than that. and I’ve been blogging giveaways and product reviews left and right. Not to mention, now I have to worry about HURRICANES! Sheesh… Living on the East Coast sure has it’s beauties, but I’m a little leery about dealing with those things… It was different in Japan… Here.. not so much fun..

Yes, it’s been a very busy 8 months… and the rest of the year is going to fly by just as quickly, if not faster. Feel free to subscribe to my RSS, or add me to you reader… I promise, I’ll take you on a whirlwind ride with me…

Oh, and be forewarned… I may blurt out certain words on this blog that I wouldn’t normally say on my other site, or on Twitter.. so just be prepared.. I’m definitely using this blog to let my hair down

And one more thing… the pictures on the top right hand side of my blog are mine. I took them, and if anyone tries to steal them… there will be hell to pay!

Thank you..

Well, I was looking in the mirror the other evening, and all I saw was this one hair sticking straight up from just behind my bangs… My hair is long, and dark.. Why would just one hair be sticking up??? It was much shorter than all of the others, and it was a different color too.. Frantic now. Must. Find. Tweezers. NOW! As soon as I found my tweezers, I plucked that hair out.. and ran to Daddy… He just started laughing hysterically… Nope, not getting any sympathy here… 

I took off, and intended to take a photo of this particular hair… only to realize that the winds that whipped though our area had blown said hair off of my vanity, somewhere on the floor.. So I don’t have a photo to share with you.. but I can tell you… 

IT WAS A GREY HAIR!!!! AAAAHHHHHHHHH!!!! 

ok, so it was just one… and it’s gone now… My mom keeps telling me that pluck one, and 2 more grow in it’s place… well.. just great.. We’ll see… Now this is what I get for not coloring my hair for nearly a year… I wanted to go back to my natural color, and what do I get?? A grey hair.. .

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I blame it on 3 year old twins!!! LOL It’s ok.. because when they’re older, I’ll show them all the grey hairs that “they” gave me, and maybe that’ll be the trick to get them to listen to me… 

In my dreams…

I think this is just the worst thing ever… I don’t understand what I’m doing wrong.. or am I doing anything right? 

The girls have been doing so well in their potty training.. and today I just want to cry… They haven’t used the potty once.. They’ve both gone in their underwear all day. I’ve stopped them and asked them to try using the toilet… They won’t go… then 5 mins later, they’ll have peed or pooped in their underwear… I’m seriously tired today!!! 

I finally put them in pull ups because I just got so tired of following after them with the steam cleaner… Well, I’m out of solution too.. I need to buy more.. I just don’t get it… 

Yesterday, they did so well.. Even at the gym… I went through a 1 hour water aerobics class, and then 2 miles on the treadmill and heard nothing from the day care. When I went to pick them up, I found out that they both used the toilet all morning. I was so happy! Today, however, they’ve been just the opposite.. and we’ve been home all day! 

I’ve tried it all.. Sticker charts, bribing w/ Jelly Belly’s, positive praise, you name it.. I’ve tried it… I’m getting so flustered… What did you do?? Help!

This morning on Good Day Sacramento, they were celebrating National Multiples Birth Awareness Day. It’s actually in Canada.. but hey… Us parents of multiples can celebrate it no matter where we are.. Right??!!!??? 

I saw a whole bunch of twins and their parents on tv and was so excited to find out there’s a Meetup  group for twins! I looked them up, and unfortunately for me, they’re in the Roseville area… I don’t make it up there very often… but if you’re in their area and are interested, check out the Meetup Page for “Got Twins or More?” !