Flying Solo

Hi Everyone! Happy (late) Monday! 

(And by the way, thinking of everyone on the East coast dealing with this scary storm...)

My husband's out of town (and will be twice more in the next two weeks), and boy do I miss him...just being around him, of course, but also his help with the kids. I say I'm flying solo, but really I'm not because my mother-in-law is with me and is such a HUGE help. But I won't let her do the baby night shift. And all I can say is I always really appreciate my husband and all he does, but right now even more so, with the babies up last night at 10 PM (both), 1 AM (Luke), 2 AM (Zo), and 5 AM (both), me getting up with them at 6:30 AM, a busier-than-normal workday and today is bank and grocery day so out doing that, and my husband kind of joke-threatening me that if I don't get our daughter a winter jacket he's going to do it (he has great taste in kid's clothes, but I wouldn't put it past him to get something crazy just to make his point about the fact that it's taken me forever to get this [admittedly important] task done).

Anyway, it's almost 10 PM and I'm just now finishing my workday...about to dream feed the babies (with my mother-in-law's help) and who knows what the night will bring but it's OK. I'm the mom. I can handle whatever I need to.

Oh and a couple random tidbits, because that's the kind of mood I'm in:

• Grandma got the kids rubber duckies, and partly so they can play with them, partly because it's time I've started giving them (the kids) a bath in the bathtub upstairs together instead of in the kitchen sink one at a time...they LOVE the rubber duckies (and the bath)...Luke cried when I got him out of the tub tonight...
• Zoe is all about consonants right now...ba ba ba ba ba, ma ma ma ma ma, etc. So cute
• And Luke's special power right now is full-on crawling...amazing
• And they've both got teeth! Also amazing...

Oh, and also, I might be totally off base with this, but I feel like if I was a stay-at-home-mom I could totally handle the kids solo. It's this trying to work from home thing and switching gears and trying to be somewhat available for my clients and not being able to nap when the kids nap because I need to get on a conference call instead...I'm not complaining, I just feel like work just makes this impossible to do on my own (and thankfully I don't have to...)

Anyway, thanks for indulging me in my sleep-deprived mama randomness...

XOXO