Focusing on the bright side.

Have I mentioned how cute my boys are? They are so adorable, cuddly and funny. I can't get enough of them. I just hold them, squeeze them and kiss their squishy cheeks non-stop. I dread the day that they turn and run when they see that their Mom is about to love on them. That will be a sad day indeed. So I've got to get it all in while I can.

From the sound of this post can you tell that I lived through my migraine and having J out of town? I survived...even though I was sure at the time that I would never make it through to see another day. The boys got fed, had clean diapers and I tried very hard to give them play time even w/ the jack hammer pounding away in my head. J came home a day early since I basically threatened the future existence of his boy parts... and the moment I saw him I forgot everything except how happy I was that he was home.

I forgot all about how pissed I was that he got to be at the beach in storm conditions for vacation work in an awesome hotel w/ no nighttime feedings (working around the clock) while his wife slaved away in poor health and barely managed to shower. I forgave him the minute I saw him...and was so so so happy. Aren’t I the nicest wife alive?

I just rock. And to add to the nicest wife part...I saved us mucho money by staying on our medical insurances ass.... We were getting outrageous bills from the twins NICU hospital stay. Even though we were at an in-network hospital...they charged us for out-of-network providers that treated the boys while they were there. Not okay to charge someone out of network fees while they were preformed for emergency services in a pre-approved stay in-network hospital. After many idiot customer service calls, tales of how it was our responsibility, our cost, then unfulfilled promises to fix it, loooooong waits on hold, etc. etc... I finally got it all cleared up. Yes- I deserve large shiny expensive somethings for my effort :-)

Since I'm on the topic of how wonderful I am... I need this topic today. I have to post a little something that will annoy many of you. So don't hate me b/c I feel that I deserve this after the many crappy things I've gone through. So here goes (my blog readers are going to disappear over-night) I was pregnant w/ twins and somehow managed to not get one stretch mark and currently my size 2 pants are a little big. I have no idea how I managed to do this b/c I didn't watch what I ate when I was pregnant. In fact I ate fast food for the first time in forever. And I lost it all w/ out trying. I was back to my original weight at my 3 week post baby appt and now I weigh less than I did pre-pregnancy. Pretty much due to the fact that I have no time to eat..let alone cook. Now to be completely honest...my body is not what it used to be. My boobs are definitely less firm that before and my waist is not as defined. But, I had so much fear from reading about others experiences w/ twin pregnancy that I was sure I'd be carrying around 50 extra pounds right now and have huge angry red stretch marks from my neck to my knees and it just didn't happen.

If this makes you feel bad...don't... b/c I need some positives right now....let me leave you on this sucky note. We live in California and got into the housing market in late 2004 (housing peak) for a criminal amount of money for what we actually got.... and it's now 2008 (housing slump/crisis). Talk about a poor investment. It's just painful.




Matthew and Andrew (best investment ever)



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