What life would be like

What would life be like without Facebook, pinterest, or google. What would it be like if you could go back to when you were a little kid, where you had to go to the library to look up information not like today where you just pull out your phone. What would it be like if instead of communicating through Facebook you actually called that person or saw them in person.  Why does everyone care about what people are posting, most of it is negative statuses anyway.  I need to delete my account, but this is where I put info about my blog on here.  But I don't care about facebook or other people's problems except the updates on the important people in my life.  All you geniuses and inventors out there- Please stop making everything about technology.  I want my children to have a childhood like I did.  Can you start making people get off their butts instead of them sitting and doing everything on the computer or their phones.  Please take us back in time to when we had to actually move, thank you!  Sincerely a mommy who will devote herself to making sure her children don't sit in front of the t.v., computer, or play video games 24/7!

What would life be like if you could say your own opinion and not have someone completely tear it apart. What if I write a opinionated blog post? Would I lose my readers, would they just view it as my opinion, would they tear me apart? 10 other people just wrote about a topic I was going to write about. Do I still write it? Will they think I am copying? Do they even read my blog? Why do I care so much about every little thing and what other people think about me?

What would life be like if we could just go back to when I was a little girl, where I was able to ride my bike in our development and not have a care in the world. Where kids could have a little freedom.  I won't let my girls out of my sight til they move out of our house.  Which leads me too all my worrying.

How do people with children have so much time on their hands? I wake up, shower, get the girls up, make breakfast. Get kids fed, play or run errands with them.  Nap time=clean the house, edit pictures, or shower if I didn't get one before the girls woke up. Kids wake up play some more, make dinner, eat, clean up dinner... wait who am I kidding, the girls won't let me clean, they want my full undivided attention.  Ok have them help me clean.  Give them dishes to load in the dishwasher...they are making a bigger mess (I should have waited til they went to bed). Bath time, story time with daddy, bedtime. Downstairs pick up all the toys, sit down, spend some time with Ian if he hasn't fallen asleep, blog, Facebook, and pinterest.  Oh no it's midnight, one of the girls will probably be up at any moment (yes, they are two, yes Zoey still gets up at night..save this for another post to explain).  Try to sleep can't.  What was that noise, is some one breaking in, get up and check on the girls with what feels like the millionth time.  Reminds me, Ian we need to get a dog so I can sleep at night.  Wait, I hate dogs.  The slobber, the barking, the shedding, licking my girls. Gross.  But I would feel better, especially living in this big house.  I would love to start a etsy shop. I have a million bows and fabric, but with what time?

At the end of the day these issues seem so small.  I have bigger issues to worry about like: what preschool to send the girls too, sign them up for dance and gymnastics, paint and decorate the house, fix my resume for when the girls start pre-preschool next year I can go back to work the days they are in school( best thing about being a nurse, making your own hours and picking up when YOU are able too).

I am always afraid of what others may think of me.  Maybe that is why I am so quiet and shy.  I don't know. I am going to be myself, best thing is I can be myself on here because some of you don't know me!  I want to show the girls that they need to be themselves and to not worry about what other people may think of them.  Just be you!  I will treat them like individuals.  Just because they are twins, and they will grow up together; I will never treat them as one unit.  They are each their own person.  To you mommy of twins out there, please remember that!

This is off topic but: people need to watch what they say.  We were at the grocery store today, and some lady came up to me and said how do you tell them apart.  One looks like she has fat cheeks compared to the other.  Number one: don't say that to a mother, and secondly: they have the same face and cheeks.  Are you blind?  Then she proceeded to say: you are lucky you have two gorgeous twins and neither of them are ugly.  Most twins I see one is ugly and one is cute.  WHAT?!?! did you really just say that to me.  Lets just say I looked and at her and walked away...it may have gotten ugly if I continued to let her talk to me.

Picnic at the park, they are such girly girls!  Just got done freaking out over a  bee that was 15 feet away!  

2012 Olympics!

One of my favorite times every four years is the summer Olympics! I love everything about them, the thrill I get sitting at the edge of my seat during gymnastics and swimming.  At times I feel like Aly Raisman's parents.  I feel like I am living through them, that I know them, and that they are my best friends!  Weird? Right, I know!

There were only certain times our parents let us stay up late, during  special occasions such as the winter Olympics and the Cleveland Indians world series in 1997 (yes it was a school night, but it was a once in a probably (the way Cleveland is looking) lifetime event our parents wanted us to experience!)

I remember the summer Olympics of 1996 so vividly! Maybe because it was in the United States,  it was live during our U.S. time, and there was no facebook, twitter, internet ruining it.  Does anyone else think the NBC coverage is horrible?  Maybe because I wished I was those girls, but I still remember that day!  I remember watching it with my family, sitting, jumping, clenching our fists and eyes during the balance beam routines, yelling at the gymnasts like they could hear me: land it, don't fall, come on girls!  The magnificent 7 were amazing!  I loved those girls!  I even went to college with Dominique Moceanu (very sweet person, she even performed some skills during anatomy and physiology class for the 12 of us that were in it!)

Kerri did it though.  I still remember that moment, where my sister and I started crying.  The moment she landed it, the moment her coach carried her off, and them receiving the gold medal.  I could lie and say we just got teary eyed and that I don't have any of the newspapers saved, but that would be awful of me.  Yes, I did cry (not tears, full blown crying!), yes I did save every magazine and newspaper article from those Olympics.  You ask, do I still have them?  Absolutely, in my memory box! Even for my birthday that October, my mom took me to see them perform at the Gund Arena.  So to get to relive that moment last night watching the fab 5, it brought be back to when I was a little girl watching the magnificent 7!  No, I did not cry, but I did get teary-eyed.  I wanted to cheer, but I had a very sick little girl laying next to me and did not want to wake her!

So I will cheer now, AAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!! It was a great moment!  A moment I hope I get with my girls.  I can't wait til they are older and understand.  I can't wait to keep them up late for moments like this and to see them so happy and excited!  I don't know if they will be able to experience that with any Cleveland sports (they may have to be a Pittsburgh fans like their daddy, before you throw me hate emails, Ian was born and raised in Pittsburgh so you can't be mad at the man!)

I am most excited for those little experiences with my girls, like I had with my mom and sister.  I pray there will be moments like this.  Like the Magnificent 7, Fab 5, Michael Phelps, Missy Franklin, and so on...

I also hope they find that hobby that they absolutely fall in love with.  It was dance for me, competitive cheerleading for my sister.  Who knows I may have two gymnasts or dancers, two amazing little girls who may want to go all the way.

here are some videos of our dance parties we have every evening in our household and just because I think they are so cute!

Just wait til you see their singing videos!  Coming soon....call me maybe?!?!

Twin fact from snapple cap!

My sister sent me a picture of her snapple bottle cap that had an interesting twin fact!  Here it is:

Funny thing is:  This is true!  Both the girls are left handed!  Interesting what you can learn from a bottle cap! Will start paying more attention to these things!

Just thought this would be fun to share!  Thanks Titi!

Thank you Jessica, Thank you Jennifer!

I started my own Revolution a couple months ago.  I didn't do it for anyone, I did it for myself, I wanted to feel better about me.  Now, I am going to get a ton of comments from my family and Ian, so let me make it clear--- I am not trying to lose weight guys!  I am under my pre-pregnancy weight.  I got back to my pre-pregnancy weight when the girls were 6 weeks old (I credit nursing twins).  Once the girls turned a year old, I was under my pre-pregnancy weight.

But... I carried the girls to almost full-term.  I only gained about 50 lbs, but when you are carrying twins, your skin stretches.  I was all belly, so it took a beating.  I have met a couple of other twin mommies and are jealous of them because they don't have the extra skin.  They don't have it though because they delivered their twins too early and had to deal with them being in the NICU.  I would rather have extra skin then have my kids in the NICU, so I sympathize with them.  With all this being said, I just want my abs back, the abs I have had for almost 10 years.  I also don't want to be that mom yet.  I am not ready for mom jeans, or a mini van (even though I know this vehicle is in my future), I am only in my mid/late 20's, I want to wear a bikini again.  Then this photo changed everything.

Thank you Jennifer Garner!  Here is the Link.  Thank you for being the celebrity who is not worrying about getting back into shape after having a baby 4 months ago.  Thank you for showing people that you can wear a one piece and still look cute!  I guess I was so worried about society these days, you get judged just by walking in a store.  It is not that I can't wear a bikini, I could and no one would really know about my belly, but I am so self- conscious about my body.  Why?  I don't know, maybe because my sister just had a baby and is already back in a bikini, but I have to remind myself that she only carried one child.  I have always been fit, and then it changed when I had kids.  Don't get me wrong, I would rather have my two blessings then my body!  I hope all of you mommies out there can feel that way too.  I also would rather spend every moment with my children, then at the gym, ( have I ever told you how much I hate the gym!)  At some point I will start going back to my workout classes, but for now I will remember that I don't need to wear a bikini to fit in with society.  I need to remember that my husband loves me for me, and that i will be chasing two, two year olds on the beach so I will stick with what is comfortable: a one piece, or tankini!

One more thing:  The Honest company.  I receive the parenting magazines, and a couple months ago there was an article about Jessica Alba.  She started her own all natural baby and home products and its all made in America.  I signed up for it, but they weren't selling things individually, you had to buy in bulk.  At that time they were only selling diapers.  I use cloth so I didn't buy anything.  Well just recently the shop opened.  I knew someone who tried her stuff and raved about it.  So I decided to order some things.  Mostly household cleaners, detergent, and sunscreen.  I am very excited to try it.  I have not gotten the stuff yet, but when I do, I will share with you!  If you would like to check it out go to http://www.honest.com/ and sign up (its free to sign up!)

My promise:  I promise to never talk about weight, or body image in front of my girls.  Everyone's focus is on this.  We as a society look at celebrities and wish we could be like them.  The media jumps on them if they gained 5 lbs.  I don't want my children to feel like they need to look a certain way to be accepted in this society.  This also needs to change, because too many little girls are comparing themselves to celebrities at a very young age.  Reality T.V. shows aren't helping this either.  I want my children to feel beautiful in their skin, whatever body type they are.  I want them to be happy and comfortable.  I will have to teach them that there are not so nice people in this world who will try to bring other people down, but that they need to stay true to who they are and want to be.  I promise to teach them to never judge somebody else, that everyone has their own situations and we don't know what it is.  True beauty comes from the inside.  It doesn't matter what you look like on the outside, as long as you are happy inside...that your heart is full of love!

My goal! (this was taken a month before we got engaged!)

 I got two gorgeous girls!

Our two blessings!

I will keep you all up to date on what I have been doing.  Maybe something I am doing will help you too!

fun, fireworks, friends, Dee Dee, LIFE!

We had our first 4th of July in our new house!  This is the third 4th of July the girls were apart of.

1st- they were only about 6 weeks old, we were all in bed by 7!

2nd- they were 13 months old.  We were all in bed by 8!

This year fireworks were on July 3rd, we were debating on letting the girls stay up for the fireworks.  That morning, we decided to put them to bed at their normal time....

well that changed...

We moved into a large development.  Every house was having a party except us (family and friends, next year!)  We were invited to our next door neighbors party.  We went over there for a little bit after dinner. The girls were having so much fun playing with the other kids, we decided to just play it by ear with bedtime. 

then...

Everyone and their mother decided to shoot off fireworks right in front of our house, and the girls flipped.  then it started pouring down rain out of nowhere, and we took cover under a patio umbrella.  Oh yea and I left my iphone outside at our house...

Best part about the fireworks is you can see them from our backyard.  they shoot them off the bridge on the river.  They were far enough away that it was not loud.  They both started falling alseep in our arms around 10 and we were about to walk home (there was a delay from the rain), but they finally started and the girls woke up.  they loved every minute of it!  We said goodbye to all our new friends and the girls went to bed without a fuss and slept in! 

4th of July day, Grandma DeeDee came to visit for a couple days!  Here are some pictures from the past couple days:

Our first juice box

so happy about it

Harly and me watching fireworks

Zoey hanging out with the neighbors and daddy

Watching the fireworks!

4th of July- Harly

Zoey

getting ready to blow bubbles with grandma Dee Dee

farm animals at imagination station, checking out the chicks

Loved the nursery and hospital section!

taking very good care of her baby!

They will be great big sisters one day!

turning on the lights and sirens

Zoey got the ball on the air tube

playing the piano

ended the morning back at the farm animals section

just hanging out the rest of the weekend

having so much fun!

 We ended the day Sunday at the neighbors house, playing with all the kids!  Have I said how much I love our house and development!! The girls already have so many friends, it is awesome!  So happy with our decision!!

 Advice regarding noise:  I really don't have any, the girls are afraid of everything!  We have a train that is about two streets away, (sometimes I don't even hear it but they do and come running and crying).  They are afraid of the train, fireworks, if you raise your voice, little noises.
                    * I try to make the noises interesting, such as
Train: Train is not going to get you, its just tooting its horn for you to hear!
fireworks: They are loud, but they won't get you, they show you all the pretty colors you know in the sky!
Thunder:  It is just grandpa Benny and Jesus bowling in heaven!