A day out at Mama's

Every Friday, I take the twins to my mom's. Even though the house is almost bursting at the seams and it's the cleanest place around owing to the fact that there are already 3 children in the house, it offers me great comfort and is often the time when I regain my equilibrium and sanity. It gives me the opportunity to reset myself, no matter how riled I've been over the week. It is my oasis. And the kids seem to enjoy it as well. All the attention that is showered on them, the new toys that don't belong to them but they are allowed to devour.

I am a little bit wistful because I am beginning to realise how much my mother can teach my children but doesn't have the opportunity to because they only see her once a week. Even from being with them just on Fridays, she's taught the twins to crawl up the stairs and taught them to feed herself. It's a point of contention between Packrat and myself. I crave to be near my parents and family but by doing that, I would be depriving him of that same opportunity. Anyway, we're still trying to figure out that one and one way or another, we will.

Meanwhile, the twins and I all look forward to Fridays. I'm very tired at the end of it but it's the only time in the week I feel blissfully happy and think that I can do this stay at home mom thing. But I think my idea of stay at home mom-ness is where I get to spend time doing fun things with the kids but also have the opportunity to run out and do errands and have alone time if I needed to. Ideally, that's what I want to be able to do. I say ideally, because there's that small issue of needing to diaper, feed and educate the twins and even though my father once told me when I was young that money grew on trees, I found that to be untrue after looking high and low and realising that he meant it sarcastically.

So, I just have to settle for this, for now. And do fun things like capture them on video. I keep reminding myself to buy a better video cam but I keep forgetting. Then when I take lousy video footage like this, I kick myself.

Anyhows, this is Jordan, feeding herself a cracker for the first time, without help.



It needs to be rotated, but I don't know how.

And this is Evan, standing and looking mighty proud of himself. He is also turning into a camera whore, always smiling at the camera. It's good for us. It guarantees us funny pictures.





So yes, it's true they get more fun, but a whole lot of work too!