Good Day! Well... a lot sure has changed since the last blog post! Its funny that I read it and now we have just made a HUGE change! For those of you who might not have heard we uprooted our lives in comfortable Red Deer to move to a small town in isolated Northern Alberta called La Crete. Its Northeast of Peace River about 3.5 hours or so! Its really beautiful here. Lots of forest and farmland surrounding us here, you also have to take a ferry to get here! So needless to say its a huge change, but change is good and it helps you to grow. We moved because Dallas got offered a good job up here so here we are!
The girls are adjusting very well to a new home, they like sleeping in their beds and not sleeping with their mommy all the time ( I actually miss sleeping with them ). They are crawling, fighting, standing (while holding something) and Nellie shakes her finger at me when I say no to her. Its quite funny. They eat like tiny horses and love cheese like their mama!
I know its been ages since I last wrote, life has been a whirlwind of change and it will be nice to settle down for a few months anyway. Change is fun though, it helps you to get out of your comfort zone and have a different perspective.
I hope this finds all of you in a good place.
Much Love
xoxo
Jess
Monday, June 18, 2012
Friday, April 20, 2012
Avalanche
Have you ever had dreams that scared you, terrified you actually? I had two in one night, they were vivid and now I can't stop thinking of them. When the girls were up at 4am (yes thats what time they wake up at) they were eating and we were in my (our) bed and I googled the meaning of my dream. It seems the more terrifying the dream the better the meaning. I dreamt that I was caught in an avalanche and everything that I loved was in this hole, I couldn't get to them or to my "stuff". It made me wonder what am I holding onto? The meaning was different though. It means something about profit and wealth, whether or not that means financial, emotional, or spiritual is still up for debate. The other thing was that I seen others being buried and it meant a change in surroundings. So that is interesting. I am totally game for a change.
Anyways, this is what happens when you are slightly deprived of sleep, you sleep hard and dream dreams that stay with you for at least the morning.
I should update ya'll on the girls. They are so mobile now, crawling and sitting up (mostly) on their own. They have had a few tumbles here and there, but they are just doing so well. Each stage brings new challenges thats for sure. Gone are the days of laying and playing on the ground. Yesterday while Farren was sleeping on the patio in her stroller Nellie and I played in the grass on a blanket and she loved it. I know she was thinking she wanted to eat the grass, but she just wasn't ready to explore too far away from the blanket just yet, I know that will soon happen. Its so fun being at this age with them. Just trying to imagine what their innocent little minds are thinking. Trying to navigate their next move and what they can find to put in their mouths. Silly girls.
Anyways, I hope you are all having a wonderful day!
xoxo
Jesse
Anyways, this is what happens when you are slightly deprived of sleep, you sleep hard and dream dreams that stay with you for at least the morning.
I should update ya'll on the girls. They are so mobile now, crawling and sitting up (mostly) on their own. They have had a few tumbles here and there, but they are just doing so well. Each stage brings new challenges thats for sure. Gone are the days of laying and playing on the ground. Yesterday while Farren was sleeping on the patio in her stroller Nellie and I played in the grass on a blanket and she loved it. I know she was thinking she wanted to eat the grass, but she just wasn't ready to explore too far away from the blanket just yet, I know that will soon happen. Its so fun being at this age with them. Just trying to imagine what their innocent little minds are thinking. Trying to navigate their next move and what they can find to put in their mouths. Silly girls.
Anyways, I hope you are all having a wonderful day!
xoxo
Jesse
Wednesday, April 18, 2012
Meatless May-be
Its Wednesday and I have decided to start my Rant or Rave. I have hesitated doing this because I really don't want to offend anyone. That is not the purpose. So, that being said, here we go.
Yesterday Dallas showed me this link . Now I know many of you that read are meat eaters, I am one myself ( I have a meat tooth, seriously). I think I have wrote about this before. So I was able to watch maybe 2 minutes of this. So viewer discretion people. My rant is about this video. In the few minutes I watched it, I felt sick in my stomach, guilty, sad and sickened. Dallas has been harping on me for quite sometime to not eat so much meat, but I never really had a reason to stop. So, I am not willing to stop altogether, but I am challenging myself (and others too) to give up meat even for a week. I am going to try to stop for the month of May. Meatless May if you will. Now meatless in my world is not eating any beef, chicken or pork. Fish that is not farmed, is NOT included.
In the future I want to try to be more conscious about the meat that I do put in my body. So that will include going to the butcher or even raising our own little calf (how hard will that be to slaughter a calf that we have raised)? I just have this need to actually KNOW where the food that I am eating is coming from. In a way if we are eating meat that has been tortured are we not putting that bad energy in our own bodies? Now people don't think this is a dig at anyone its just deep thoughts on a Wednesday.
Yesterday I had a big shop at Costco to pick up some fresh veggies, fruit, etc. I love costco. I have been starting to make smoothies in the morning. Sometimes the hardest thing to do when you want to begin living a healthier lifestyle is actually starting. So today I have started. I will see how well I do. I have great support in Dallas, his mom and my friend Jessica (she's great to motivate me in a healthy direction).
Well this rant or rave was a fail. I didn't really do either. Thats ok. I just wanted to share this with everyone. Is there anything that you would give up to promote a healthier lifestyle? Now I want to live the example I want to be for my girls. So here we go!
I hope you are all having a great midweek day.
xoxo
Jesse
Yesterday Dallas showed me this link . Now I know many of you that read are meat eaters, I am one myself ( I have a meat tooth, seriously). I think I have wrote about this before. So I was able to watch maybe 2 minutes of this. So viewer discretion people. My rant is about this video. In the few minutes I watched it, I felt sick in my stomach, guilty, sad and sickened. Dallas has been harping on me for quite sometime to not eat so much meat, but I never really had a reason to stop. So, I am not willing to stop altogether, but I am challenging myself (and others too) to give up meat even for a week. I am going to try to stop for the month of May. Meatless May if you will. Now meatless in my world is not eating any beef, chicken or pork. Fish that is not farmed, is NOT included.
In the future I want to try to be more conscious about the meat that I do put in my body. So that will include going to the butcher or even raising our own little calf (how hard will that be to slaughter a calf that we have raised)? I just have this need to actually KNOW where the food that I am eating is coming from. In a way if we are eating meat that has been tortured are we not putting that bad energy in our own bodies? Now people don't think this is a dig at anyone its just deep thoughts on a Wednesday.
Yesterday I had a big shop at Costco to pick up some fresh veggies, fruit, etc. I love costco. I have been starting to make smoothies in the morning. Sometimes the hardest thing to do when you want to begin living a healthier lifestyle is actually starting. So today I have started. I will see how well I do. I have great support in Dallas, his mom and my friend Jessica (she's great to motivate me in a healthy direction).
Well this rant or rave was a fail. I didn't really do either. Thats ok. I just wanted to share this with everyone. Is there anything that you would give up to promote a healthier lifestyle? Now I want to live the example I want to be for my girls. So here we go!
I hope you are all having a great midweek day.
xoxo
Jesse
Monday, April 9, 2012
Spring Revamp
It is a Monday night 8:17 to be precise. I should be thinking about my head finding my pillow, but here I am. Glass of water in hand... sort of. I have been thinking about ways to make this blog more... well... enjoyable to read and write. I feel like I have blogger blah's. So if anyone has ideas chuck em this way.
So there is a radio show that I listen to pretty much every morning on CBC called "Q" and on this show there is a dude who comes on bi-weekly (Wednesdays usually) and does something called Rant or Rave. In his segment he either rants about something or raves about something. I thought that would be kind of fun to do in the perspective of a parent with twins. Not like everyday, but every once in awhile have a "special" rant or rave post. Yes... I will, its actually a great idea. I also want to revamp this blog. Change the tone a bit. I was reading some of my previous posts and they are kind of... well... too serious. If anyone knows me I am not overly serious and if I can say I am rather witty. So... there.
I want to throw a few different things into the mix. Like maybe I could do a 30x30 fashion remix like this one, such a great idea and really something fun and different.
So stay tuned... seriously.
xoxo
Jess
So there is a radio show that I listen to pretty much every morning on CBC called "Q" and on this show there is a dude who comes on bi-weekly (Wednesdays usually) and does something called Rant or Rave. In his segment he either rants about something or raves about something. I thought that would be kind of fun to do in the perspective of a parent with twins. Not like everyday, but every once in awhile have a "special" rant or rave post. Yes... I will, its actually a great idea. I also want to revamp this blog. Change the tone a bit. I was reading some of my previous posts and they are kind of... well... too serious. If anyone knows me I am not overly serious and if I can say I am rather witty. So... there.
I want to throw a few different things into the mix. Like maybe I could do a 30x30 fashion remix like this one, such a great idea and really something fun and different.
So stay tuned... seriously.
xoxo
Jess
Wednesday, April 4, 2012
Sluggin Away
Oh Dear blog... how I have missed writing in thee. Time is of the essence and the girls are growing and changing at an astonishing pace. We are just over 7 months into this adventure called parenting. Its quite the ride. I love it though. I think sometimes people think I am just saying that I love having twins just to put on a brave face, but I promise you that is not the case at all. I truly do enjoy it so very much. Yes I have double everything that is undesirable, but with that comes double everything that is wonderful, like the smiles and hugs and kisses. Don't get me wrong though, bedtime is easily my favorite part of the day, then its time for me. I have had a hard time remembering myself through this journey. So last week I went and I got my eyebrows waxed... please don't be jealous.
Just to bring you up to speed here... Nellie is on a strict exercise program of yoga and doing what I like to refer to as "the slug". She basically does something between breakdancing and yoga all day (unless she is jumping, cuddling or sleeping). Poor thing must be exhausted... if I did that I would totally sleep through the night...
Farren is a happy chatty little person, she loves to jump jump jump and bops her head when I sing to her, she has some good dance moves. She might be a little bit less mobile than her little friend, but she still slugs around and manages to keep up!
One of my very favorite things right now is feeding them... food. They love love love their food... I feel so very lucky that they will basically eat anything I put in their mouth. They are basically little vegetarians ( their fathers doing, I have a meat tooth he does not ). They have tried an assortment of foods and seem to tolerate most everything really well. Its just a joy making their food, its a lot of work, but so so satisfying. Its a funny time when they eat, I usually test things out on Farren because she is more "tolerant" of new tastes. I will feed her a bit of something new and she will then eat it, think about it and look over at Nellie to say, "Yes I approve of this." Its almost like they are starting to form this sister team. Its hilarious.
Bathing has also changed in this house, they now bathe in my (yes my) bathtub. Their little heads are together and feet opposites and they kick kick kick and suck on their face cloths, its quite a fun time. They often are very spirited after the bath and don't like getting out... I don't blame them, I cry sometimes when I have to get out of the bath too.
So this little adventure is continuing along and we are just enjoying the changes in the girls and our life too. Childhood is such an adventurous time in life and we just feel lucky that we get a glimpse into what it is like. I wish that eating my toes and playing in a box satisfied me as much as it does them. However, if I was caught doing either of those I think it would be frowned upon.
My day usually starts with me jamming two coffees in me as soon as possible (this helps, seriously). Since the sun has started to feel warm again it didn't take me long to figure out that I am solar and caffeine powered. I try to get dressed after the bears go for their morning nap and clean up the morning mess and wait for them to get up again. We have been trying to get out for a walk everyday, this doesn't always happen, but when it does mommy is a much happier mommy. I honestly think this tooth fairy has it all wrong too... seriously. She should be dropping of loads of cash, gift certificates for massages and glasses of wine to parents who have to go through it! Yikes. We manage by using a variety of homeopathic remedies and they seem to do the job, but seriously tooth fairy if you are out there and you hear me, forget the kids what about the parents?
I hope that whoever still comes and reads this blog of mine will continue as I will try to be better at updating!
xoxo
Jesse and Bears (thats their nickname, The Sister Bears)
Just to bring you up to speed here... Nellie is on a strict exercise program of yoga and doing what I like to refer to as "the slug". She basically does something between breakdancing and yoga all day (unless she is jumping, cuddling or sleeping). Poor thing must be exhausted... if I did that I would totally sleep through the night...
Farren is a happy chatty little person, she loves to jump jump jump and bops her head when I sing to her, she has some good dance moves. She might be a little bit less mobile than her little friend, but she still slugs around and manages to keep up!
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| Nellie enjoying her dinner. |
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| Farfar messy face. |
So this little adventure is continuing along and we are just enjoying the changes in the girls and our life too. Childhood is such an adventurous time in life and we just feel lucky that we get a glimpse into what it is like. I wish that eating my toes and playing in a box satisfied me as much as it does them. However, if I was caught doing either of those I think it would be frowned upon.
My day usually starts with me jamming two coffees in me as soon as possible (this helps, seriously). Since the sun has started to feel warm again it didn't take me long to figure out that I am solar and caffeine powered. I try to get dressed after the bears go for their morning nap and clean up the morning mess and wait for them to get up again. We have been trying to get out for a walk everyday, this doesn't always happen, but when it does mommy is a much happier mommy. I honestly think this tooth fairy has it all wrong too... seriously. She should be dropping of loads of cash, gift certificates for massages and glasses of wine to parents who have to go through it! Yikes. We manage by using a variety of homeopathic remedies and they seem to do the job, but seriously tooth fairy if you are out there and you hear me, forget the kids what about the parents?
I hope that whoever still comes and reads this blog of mine will continue as I will try to be better at updating!
xoxo
Jesse and Bears (thats their nickname, The Sister Bears)
Friday, December 16, 2011
Little Hearts
In a world full of strife,
you make it worth fighting for.
A purpose to my life,
now and forever more.
Unconditional love to share,
you can have it all.
To you my heart I bare,
your Little Hearts made me fall.
I love my girls so much. Somedays I have to pinch myself, then I soon realize that I have been given two precious gifts and we are so lucky to know these little people.
xoxo
Jesse
you make it worth fighting for.
A purpose to my life,
now and forever more.
Unconditional love to share,
you can have it all.
To you my heart I bare,
your Little Hearts made me fall.
I love my girls so much. Somedays I have to pinch myself, then I soon realize that I have been given two precious gifts and we are so lucky to know these little people.xoxo
Jesse
Sunday, December 11, 2011
Ch- ch- ch- ch- ch changes
I now realize that it has been a long time since I have sat down to write a post in this ol blog of mine. Not like anyone is sitting on the edge of their seats waiting or anything... right? Well needless to say, I have been a busy mommy. The girls have changed so much this last month I can hardly believe it. I have one baby who is a big talker/ squeaker.... whatever you want to call it. That baby is Farren. She is just full of little noises and has totally found her voice. I love it. Nellie is also talking a lot just not as much as her twin counterpart. The cutest thing is when they make little noises they make while looking at each other! They make high pitched squeals of excitement and smile so big at each other! Personally, I have been feeling overwhelmed in my house! I sometimes let the work around here get so far behind that it feels really challenging to get caught up! But I must this week ( my parents are coming for Christmas) and the house must be clean so mom and I can just go shopping! A good friend of mine gave me the BEST advice when it comes to house work and keeping up or catching up! She just said to take 10 minutes and just do a small job! Like clean a cupboard or the fridge or the front closet. Just a small job that you don't do on a day to day basis, it then feels like you have at least accomplished something! Does anyone out there have any advice they could lend? Send it my way. I know that I shouldn't be so hard on myself, I mean its not like my house is a complete disaster, it just feels that way sometimes!
Today I was reminded about how blessed I truly am to have such a great family. I love my little girls more than I can even describe and I feel like Dallas and I truly are figuring this "parenting twin" thing out! I must get to bed! This mommy is exhausted!
xoxo
Jesse
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