Good times this summer

Ok, so I've been a tad busy lately. That's the reason I'm giving for not updating my blog in over 6 months. But honestly, I've been really busy.

Let's see what's happened since my last update:

1. The twins turned 2 years old! They are soooooo big now.

2. The boys finished school. Tristan and Hunter both got some A's on their report cards...but more importantly no one got an "N" in their learning skills. Great job this year guys!!!

3. I finished 3 courses - Reading 2, Reading 3 and Intermediate English. I can now teach up to Grade 10 (yikes) and am very worn out.

4. Randy is so close to being almost done the drywall in the basement. It's been 2 years now and I'm hoping it will be done before another 2 years pass.

5. I've finally seen the light and have started saving. gasp. Really, this is something new for me. I like to spend money instead - but I've worked out a budget and I'm actually paying cash for things now...instead of credit. Randy would be proud.

6. The kids have had an AMAZING summer. Tristan and Hunter have done a variety of camps including rock climbing French camp, Basketball camp (Hunter), Literacy camp (Tristan) and the Y day camp. We also snuck in a trip to the cottage for a week. The twins did their first session of swimming lessons by themselves! The first couple of days didn't go so well (Zoe kept puking in the pool) but by the end, they did a great job and passed their level.

7. And maybe the most important thing happened in June....the twins started sleeping through the night!!!!! Thank goodness, they finally are sleeping regularly. They sleep from about 8 pm to 6 am consistently. We've all been waiting for this day to happen, it only took over 2 years to get here.

We've all had a fun summer so far and I can't believe it's only 2 more weeks until school starts for the kids. One more week at home for me and I'm starting to panic...I'm so not ready to be teaching Grade 5 yet. Ack.

Gotta go, time to clean up around here! Pictures next time I promise!

Sleep, what's sleep?

I just finished reading my last post...over 5 months ago. I was so foolish to believe that we would finally be getting some sleep.

Nope. Not a chance.

You see, when you have twins that share a room, there's no time to sleep. Because having a twin in your room means that you always have a buddy to play with - even at 3 a.m.

But I do have photographic evidence that they have slept at some point in their lives.















See, they did sleep one day. Bailey crawled into Zoe's bed and they actually slept like that for over an hour. It was pretty cute - and really nice...we had an hour to ourselves!

But other than the lack of sleep, things are going well in the zoo. Tristan and Hunter are doing well in school. And Bailey and Zoe are growing like weeds and are talking NON-STOP. I forgot how busy and loud it is having a toddler in the house - now times it by 2. But it's cute!!