Wow - I suck at blogging!

I thought I could find time to at least blog once a week. But I started blogging while PG with twins and now have 3 1/2 month old baby boys. So time and energy were two things I was pretty short on for a while! But things are starting to settle down more. Malcolm and Andrew - my baby boys - are starting to sleep longer at night. As soon as they start sleeping 7-8 hours, I know I'll have time to be more organized and actually answer e-mail or read the magazines I had come in this past year that I didn't read. I did at least have the sense to cancel all my magazines! I KNOW I won't have time to read them from now on!

So updating - Duncan has one more full semester at college for his Criminal Justice degree. He's lucked out that he'll have classes only on Tuesdays and Thursdays this fall, but they'll be long days - especially Thursday when he has a night class. He joined College Bowl and they were kind enough to give him a scholarship because of that and his good grades. I'll be happy when he's finished and I can breathe a sigh of relief from being the only breadwinner for two years!

Logan finished up the First Grade with flying colors. He was on the all A honor roll the entire year. His lowest grade was a 98 on his report cards. He is reading very well now and reads to me sometimes. He's going to summer day camp right now. They go on field trips to museums, movies, the park, indoor amusement arcades, swim, etc. He comes home exhausted, but happy.

Malcolm and Andrew are growing like weeds! Andrew had an ear infection and they both had colds recently. When Andrew had a follow up appointment with the doc and weighed 14 pounds 4 ounces! I just can't believe that! Malcolm is probably a pound and a half behind him. Andrew was 5 pounds 15 ounces at birth and Malcolm was 5 pounds 5 oz - but Malcolm was born first. They both suffered from terrible colic during May. There was one week there where I got maybe 3 hours of sleep a night and my parents had to come over and help out several times at 2am. But they're happy guys these days. They wake up smiling and sucking on an invisible bottle if they're hungry. They've developed some patience in waiting on bottles. I'm looking forward to their four month appointment with the doc. I'm hopeful they'll be given the go ahead to eat rice cereal at that point! They started day care three weeks ago and doing great.

As for me, I'm trying to keep up with everything. Work, billpaying, housework, all those things that are necessary in life, but not quite as much fun as playing with my boys! I have been trying to find time to exercise again. I'll have to start back slow and build up again. I can probably start carving out about 20 minutes every morning to do it. And again, once those babies start sleeping longer, I'll have a little more time for it. I want to get back to doing my 60 minute Firm workouts! I felt so great last summer when I was doing that workout every day. I can't stand not being in shape! Not for vanity's sake - for energy's sake! I feel so much better and have so much more energy when I'm not overweight. And goodness knows, I'm going to need energy to keep up with these babies when they start moving around!

Oh, and we lost two of our furry babies since last fall. Shadow died last October after having a respiratory infection. He stopped eating and lost over half of his body weight. It screwed up his liver and he died when the vet was trying to put a feeding tube in him. Our Junior Miss had a kidney infection and passed away in January. She had Feline AIDS, so it was a wonder she lived as long as she did. When we first found her in 1997, they told us she wouldn't live more than two years and she made it to 2007! But they were years filled with love and good food for her. We still have our Radar Love though! She's very good with the babies and sleeps with me in the nursery every night. (I'm sleeping in there until I don't have to get up every single night two or three times!)

I think that catches me up to where we stand now. I want to try to at least post once a week from now on. I want to share kid stories and rants with everyone! It would be a great way for those I care about to be able to keep up with me and mine and keep up with issues that are important to me should they care to. And I hope my friends and family will share comments with me and maybe start a blog of their own - or even e-mail me occasionally! So TTFN!