Good:

• I can finally wear my wedding band again.  It’s been at least 6 months.
• Eric helped me set up a feed reader so I can stay up on the world outside my house.  How nice…
• My in-laws came out on Saturday to see the babies. 
• Eric helped me clean the house up before his parents came.  And the kitchen is still clean.  Woohoo!
• We made it to church even with the time change…on time!

Bad:

• Not enough sleep+time change+babies’ schedule is totally off+emotionally empty = rough day
• I’m really struggling this morning.  I struggled all last night.  The babies aren’t sleeping well again.  I have no idea why.  I’m far too easily frustrated.  I’m about thisclose to tears all the time. I need more sleep. 

Good:

• My flesh and my heart may fail me, but God is the strength of my heart and my portion forever.
• For I know the plans I have for you, says the Lord.  Plans to prosper you and not to harm you, to give you a future and a hope.
• Fear not, for I am with you.  Don’t be dismayed for I am your God.  I will strengthen you, I will help you.  I will uphold you with my righteous right hand.
• The Lord is my Shepherd.  I have everything I need.
• There is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ.
• His divine power has given me everything I need for life and godliness through my knowledge of him who called us by his own glory and goodness.

Happy Monday…

I feel as if those are all I have these days.  I used to be able to use my intellect and collected “wealth” of knowledge, trivia, and experiences (mine and others) to come us with educated guesses to any question I faced.  And my guesses were typically pretty good – or at least often enough that people asked me their questions more than once.

But here I am, a mom whose twins are almost 3 months old (on Sunday), and I seem to have nothing but questions and no real answers.

So I’m going to type out some of my questions, and if you have figured out answers to any of them, please feel free to answer for me. 

1. How do you get a child (or two) to sleep for longer than 1 hour (it’s usually30-40 minutes) in his or her crib at nap times, especially when they’ll sleep for 2-3 hours in a swing?

2. Why does my son wake up 2 hours after he eats (even at night sometimes) with no dirty diaper, no burp waiting to come, and after having gotten reflux meds less than 2 hours before?  And what can I do about it? 

3. Why does my friend’s baby, who is almost 2 months old, already sleep from 11 to 6 every night?  Why can’t mine do that?  (I actually know the answer to this one, but the reality still bugs me at 3 a.m. )

4. Now that my twins are staying awake longer, but can’t actually play with toys or entertain themselves, what can I do with them? 

5. I’m getting tired of exclusively breastfeeding.  When does real food come into the picture?

6. Should I be reading books on parenting/discipline/etc. now?  What are some good ones?

7. How do you balance attention between two children?  How do you make sure/encourage their daddy to do the same?

Okay, I guess that’s all the ones that come to mind right away.  I’m sure there’s lots of answers out there, and I’m sure the answers are probably different for different children.  But maybe some of your answers will work for me, too.  Anyway, I’d love to hear them.  Thanks!