Thursday, Thursday...

I can't believe I'm posting twice in 1 week!! This is turning into my almost diary:)

Well Last night was great. After only a half hour of baby blues when Andy got home we had a very calm relaxed evening putting the girls to bed and sleeping all night! My little Nora is doing so great (thank you babywise for enlightening me!) and on a flowing schedule. I have to say I was pretty arrogant after the twins came home and they started sleeping through the night. I thought I had this mommy thing down to a T, well it's funny how God brings you back to reality. I was completely lost when Nora came home. It was like I had forgotten everything that happened the 1st year of the twins lives. I didn't know how often I should feed, when she should sleep, how long she needed to stay awake, what her cries meant, how often she should be pooping..the list goes on and on. Then a gentle yet direct best friend brought me out of my pity party and said, "this is why there are books, women forget and need reminders". So i got a book, well I got several of them and set out to get my kids lives in order.

The first month we were home I was really slack about schedules. I just went as I pleased, took the kids out whenever I wanted to leave the house and stuck to no normal routine. So of course after a month of this they were a little out of sorts not knowing what to expect. So buckling down this week and locking ourselves inside has majorly paid off. Even though the little buggers are really flexible about going out, they are so much happier and settled when they know whats coming. I know there are a lot of opinions out there about how scheduling kids is bad and a form of child abuse...well, I believe most of those opinions were formed in the quiet living room of a singleton parent sipping their Starbucks and watching days of our lives while their nanny tends to the kid. My limited experience has taught me that predictability is a powerful thing to a child and when that child is content and happy...mom is content and happy and the home becomes a peaceful refuge instead of a chaotic emotion pit.

So for this mom of three, things are looking up! I'm not naive enough to think there aren't going to be hard days and nights, but at least I know what to do when they come and I'm expecting them to happen.