Flying Into Day 8!

Ok, so I'm not doing this perfectly, but I think FlyLady would beat me over the head with her duster and timer if I tried. Yesterday I was supposed to lay out my cloths for today. I laid them in the hamper and put them in the washer this morning. It's funny, 'cause that's already a habit I have, to pick out my outfit for the next day. 

As for today, I was supposed to find a 3 ring bider and start my control journal. Well, I'm under babies so I decided my control journal may as well be iCal, then I can load it all to my iPod. After all iCal is taking up space on my 'puter and if I don't use it for something it's just clutter. So I did that. I put in my morning routine and evening routine. 

I'm Flying!

Enjoy the Pics of the Day!

I love this pic! It looks like Bob is taking the picture!

This is me trying unsuccessfully to take a pic of Jeff and myself.

We were on our way to what turned out to be not repelling.

This is right by the cliff that wasn't good enough to repel down.

Would you believe it? That poem was just floating there!

PS- Ok, I know that poem says "ski" where it should say "sky". That's going to be a painful thing to fix. I'll do it later.

Miles' hands

Just for all you who haven't seen them yet, here's Miles' extra fingers! Yep, there's even little fingernails on them. No, they don't work and won't help him play the piano, and mostly he just tucks them into his fist. Enjoy!

Picture of the Day

Just one today, but for the 2nd time in our little family history it's got all four of us!

Me, Miles, Bob, Jeff

Stress

Jeff and I were talking about stress last night. I remembered this morning a saying my mom use to have. 

"Stress is when your mouth says yes and your heart says no."

So really, stress doesn't come from outside sources, it comes from within. 

Pictures of the Day!

This is Jeff out in the mission field.

You can't get sweeter than this!

Sleeping Miles.

Me playing with the camera. 

I can finally take decent self photos thanks to wiki-how

I love that site.

NOM!

A few changes...

It's making me sad that some of these pictures of the day go away. So I'm going to post them as posts from now on. That way they can change, but you can see past ones too. I know, I'm cool like that.

I had a big boost today. I told the twin forum about my snapping clothes together and one lady said I was a genuis and a goddess. So I'm wearing a crown today.

Day 4 (for, four, fore...)

My kitchen is clean. 

I'm not even kidding. Wanna see? 

It's not perfect, but it's clean :)

What you can't see in the picture is that there are various pans and bowls on the floor that the babies were playing with. They thought that was great fun! My in-laws upstairs must have thought I kept dropping stuff what with all the fun new noises Bob and Miles discovered! ;) 

Flylady talks about how the shiny sink is her way of giving an encouraging hug. But you know something? Now that my kitchen is warm and inviting the whole room is one big hug. And I do love hugs. And food.  Food is nice....

I'm hungry. 

Day 3

Keep on keepin' on. That's the fly lady task for today. I tried to sign up for the emails 'cause I like emails.... but yahoo's server is taking a break. Oh well, there's always tomorrow. I'm dressed and I did my hair. No kidding! I really did my hair! It's cute too. Oh, and I've lost some weight. I'm kind of between sizes so one pair of pants I can take off without unzipping them, and the others are just bit too tight. I'm wearing the tight ones. Why? Because they'll keep me from sitting too much. 

The babies are eating breakfast and taking a nap. Can I just say, I love breast feeding! I've often wondered about Eve, how she survived with her first kid with only Adam there to help out. I've often wondered how much was trial and error, blind leading the blind. However, over the years I've learned a few things about God. He never leaves us alone. (Even when we shut Him out, He still works to get back to us.) So He gave women tools to help them raise babies. 

The first is Mother's Intuition. We've all heard of it, but what is it? It's the spirit of course! How better to help all mothers everywhere than to give them the spirit to guide them in one of the most important tasks we'll have in this life. There was a bunch of advice being handed out at the hospital when the twins were born. Some of that advice just felt wrong to me. It went against my instincts. Looking back, none of those things worked for us, and only when I stopped doing them and went with my gut did things start to go relatively smooth. So I've learned to trust my own voice, to listen to those promptings, the gut feelings and the instincts. And I've found that so far I'm the kind of mom I've always wanted to be. Joy!

The second tool is breast feeding. I'm not kidding! What a god send! Feeding, comforting, bonding, relaxing, all in a ready made source always with you! Can't figure out why the baby is crying? Pop him on the breast. Can't get him to sleep? Plug him in! Can't calm him down? Have a boob! Sheesh! Not to mention the health benefits for baby and mom! Ever need a testament that God knows what he's doing, look at our own bodies. 

Well, breakfast nap is over, and I can't sit here all day. I need to put on my shoes and shine my sink! Have a moment of Cuteness! Actually, have two!

Miles

Bob

PS- We had a Milestone and a Bobstone yesterday! Miles did a hands and knees crawl, and Bob stood all by his self! Yea!!

=^.,.^=

Day 2

Ok, so I was supposed to get up and get dressed, and put on my shoes. In typical S.H.E. fashion, I didn't because I couldn't take a shower this morning. I know, lame excuse, but I had my mind set on a shower and I couldn't get past that. Until about an hour ago when I took off my frumpy shirt, put on a better one and some socks and shoes. Then I cleaned off the pool table. I want to beat my husband at pool tonight and I can't with a pool table that's acting like a hot spot, now can I? 

Anyway, better nate than lever-- wait that's wrong. Better late than never! And the best part is, all that moving around has woken me up. I've been zombie Viv all day! 

THAT'S IT! A romance about a high school girl in love with a guy that turns out to be a Zombie and just wants to eat her brains-- oh wait, that's been done with Vampires, hasn't it? 

Anyway, here's your moment of Cuteness:

Miles loves that bucket

and Hermione the Cat

Flying and Babies

I'm leaning to fly with the help of flylady.com. Today is day one of the baby steps, and I've shined my sink. That's right, pat me on the back. There's not a clean dish in the place, but the sink is shining and ready for work! That's what I've done today to make my home a better place.

Don't you just love the Miles and Bob of the day today. Having these two little goofballs was the best thing I've ever done. (Certainly better than the last two movies I watched with Jeff, twilight and The Day the Earth Stood Still. ;)  Seriously though...)  Moments like this are great, where I'm just taking the day as it comes, letting the babies nap on my lap, and enjoying having them in my life. This is me doing my part to make the world a better place. 

Bob & Miles

Trapped....again.

We just watched The Day the Earth Stood Still. As a lover of classic Sci-fi I was really looking forward to seeing it. It put Jeff asleep and the twins are asleep too although probably more because it's their nap time than the movie. (That's why I'm trapped, the babies nap on mommy's lap.) Anyway, it was kind of a lame movie, but it really made me think, you know? 

I know, as a general rule I resent movies with a message designed to "make people think", but I'm not thinking about what the movie makers wanted me to think about, so I'll allow it.

***WARNING***

In order for me to make my point, the following blog contains SPOILERS for both versions of the film, The Day the Earth Stood Still. Read on at your own risk. Thank you.

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My brother once pointed out that one of the tricky things about sci-fi is that as soon as it comes out, it's dated. This is due in large part to the technology depicted. In the '50's the future had a definite look to it that definitely did not come about. And my dad told me about a short story where space travel was calculated on slide rules. 

But it's not just dated by tech stuff. Themes seem to fit the times as well. A wonderful example of the are the various versions of The Time Machine. In the middle of the story our time traveler stops in our future (he's from early 1900's) and shows some bleak thing we're doing to ourselves, then goes on with the story. In the '50's it showed a world wasting away from nuclear war. In the latest version it showed us destroying the moon trying to build a moon base on it. They tailored each version to fit the time it was made in. 

It seems there was a bunch of sci-fi in the 60's, 70's and 80's about government control of the masses with secrets, lies and other sinister stuff. Soilen Green, Parts: The Clonis Horror, Brave New World, and Logan's Run all come to mind. 

The message in the original film, The Day the Earth Stood Still was, humans need to stop their wars and fighting, or the enforcers that keep the cosmos safe will have to wipe you out. Very '50's era message, just coming out of some wars and having a lot of tension between nations. 

This new version is very now as far as its message goes. If you kill the earth you won't survive, but if the humans die, the earth will survive and be better off. So we need to change. We need to stop our watches and drilling for oil and become more natural. (That's the modern term for Holy because in stories like this God has no merit or place. Which is a shame. I seem to remember in the older version there was a place. Something about God being the only one that can overcome death. I could be wrong on that though.)

So here's what I'm wondering: were people back then just as annoyed by the anti war message as I am by the anti-human message now?

It really makes you think.

Vampires

I watched Twilight last night (still trying to figure out why it's called Twilight.) and I have to say, I'm not impressed. There was a shocking lack of explosion, making for an unsophisticated movie. I have to say the music matched the lack of anything happening very well though. And what's the deal with having a leading young lady that has less life in her acting than the guy playing the undead? The movie took its sweet time to deliver dialog, then when it came it was all in monotone dead pan. I can only remember one scene where one of main characters even cracked a smile, and that was the undead guy! Not the girl who finally hooked the guy, it was the vampire! I'm mean really people! Are you kidding me? I anxied just about as much as the average 17 year old from AZ, but even I cracked a smile when I saw my boyfriend! You know that scene in Waterwold where the main guy's boat is burned and everything he owns in the world is gone and he finds it and says "my boat". Imagine a whole movie like that. That was Twilight. I said to a friend of mine the other day I'd like to wait for a Rifftrax to come out for it before I watch it. She told me there was no need, it made fun of itself. She described it as one long awkward moment. 

People have been bugging me to read these books for years now and I just have to say, I'm just not interested. Sure, I'll become obsessed with just about anything that comes along, Star Wars, Lord of the Rings, Harry Potter, Michael Fredo and Hello Kitty. Except in the case of Hello Kitty, these obsessions die. For Star Wars it was when Revenge of the Sith came out. For Harry Potter it was after I read book seven. It was like, ok, story's over, move on.  After so many years being obsessed with stuff, frankly, I'm tired. I really can't work up the energy to get all into a new obsession. And don't sit there thinking "but you don't have to become obsessed with it, just read it!" Yeah, and how many people do you know that didn't become obsessed and start swooning over Eddy the Vampire? Not many, huh? I'm not taking my chances. Besides, I'm still just a little bitter that Myers was able to write a book and get published in six months. I'm still trying to finish a book I started over five years ago! 

I have learned a valuable lesson though: never underestimate the buying power of hormonal teenage girls.

Twinnovations

I love this word. It's the little things I hear or come up with to make life easier. (That's Twin Innovations, not twInnoations, which I think is some company owned by someone.) Anyway, today's highlighted twinnovation is prozak-- wait, no, snaps.

Snaps on baby clothes use to drive me nuts! Mainly 'cause no matter the age or stage of the baby, when you're trying to snap up the clothes, the baby some how gets away from you before you're done. But I discovered something about snaps that is so wonderful I just might never say anything bad about them ever again. 

I found that dressing my twins alike is a big life/time/sanity saver. But digging through a draw trying to find the matching onezy wasn't so time/sanity saving. So I've started sapping the matching outfits together. When Grandma Cilla saw what I was doing she pointed out I can wash them that way too. Tears of joy come to my eye when I think about snaps. Most baby clothes have them. So two onezies go into the wash together, come out together, go in the drawer together, come out together. Many mini tasks that use to be doubled 'cause I have twins have now morphed into something singular. (Let's all take a moment to admire my wording.)

Anyway, that is my Twinnovation for today.