I’ve had the scrapbooking bug the past few weeks. Luckily, I found Ali Edwards blog and she’s has so many great ideas! I joined her and documented a day in our life. I think I’ve found better motivation for this blog and attempting to see and appreciate the every day ordinary moments in our lives. Here are 10 of my favorites (I took close to 280 pictures yesterday):

His celebration this year was small, simple.

There were several cakes and candles.

This is my favorite picture of him becoming three. A bright, innocent light.

Love you little man.

I don’t know who this blog is for,

Is it for me?

Is it for them?

Is it a dream?

Sometimes I don’t want to open my computer,

Because it sucks me away for hours doing stuff that isn’t really all that creative or time efficient.

Sometimes I stay away because I’m not sure where to start again,

Not sure I’ll have the words to carefully reflect on my life,

Not sure I’m really using my voice and not the voice I think people want to hear (thou I don’t really think anyone is reading anyways so I shouldn’t really care).

Sometimes I wish I had the endurance and passion to write like I do when I run,

Even though I know I dread the distance and know the pain after, I know there is a definite beginning and end.

I know the constant struggle to push myself physically in a way I’m unsure how to do in other areas of my being.

Sometimes I need to rethink this space,

Rethink myself,

Envision what I want,

And get back to examining this life so that I can remember these little people and who I was by their side.

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Yup, that is where we are at, two months.

Every day is still an adventure.

Throw in a potty training, nap dropping two year old, and wow, things are pretty hectic.

But I can sense the eye of the storm, or maybe the storm is passing, or maybe my mind is itching to get creative. Or at least find some relief in words.

I’m hoping to set some small goals up for myself for at least this week. From there, I hope good habits will come back.

For now, most of my energy is focused on getting the twins in to some sort of schedule that is predictable – ha!

Back to my regularly schedule twin duties, who are at the moment taking a long, healthy mid day nap. Wish I could but the two year old constantly needs to be redirected back to nap time.

More to come soon!

Prompt: Write a love poem to a favorite food.

You’re naughty,
There is no denying that.
You beckon from drive-thru,
To gourmet delight.
I’ll take you anyway,
Because I love you.

You are a love I cannot deny forever.
You are a love whose perfection
Suits my ravenous appetite
With pure beauty and beef.

It’s a challenge to balance presents between two kids. I wanted to make sure they were fair and equal, even if that meant size wise. Tomorrow is the last night of Channukah, and the big presents are a coming. They have been getting little gifts, a ball, playdoh, cars, new game.

The least liked gift, as least for Noah aka as the opinionated one, was the stuffed piglet on the first night.

Just minutes after piglet was opened….

Channukah - Day 1

…he ended up in the play kitchen oven.

Baked Piglet.

Kyle commented, “Your not treating Piglet like a friend, your treating him like a piece of meat.” And soon after that Noah wanted to put Piglet in the refrigerator.

I thought he would be into Piglet because he loves the House on Pooh Corner stories. And he’s been going through a phase where he is calling all of us different characters from the story. He is Strong Piglet. Apparently somethings are just better in his imagination.

The other gifts have going off swimmingly and with lots of enthusiasm. I’m actually not sure where Piglet has ended up at this point. One out of eight gifts is too bad.

Next year, I’ll plan better! I saw someone who did their holiday cards in the summer. I might just try that next year. Get to making my gifts and holiday cards done super early.

Then again, I may just be trying to survive a hot, humid existence.