It's the New Year-2014

     Christmas is gone and so is Hannukah.  It's January and it came in bold dumping 8 inches of snow-it was the talk of the nation, the big storm.  Getting the twins out and in their down 40's, their snow jackets and mittens on them (they don't go on), is a nightmare.  Getting them down three flights of stairs is even more of a challenge.  They are 14 months and get very needy whenever anything happens like we take one twin down and leave the other in the safe pen until we can get her.  
     The minute they notice that might happen, like we are going out, they bellow like cows needing to be milked!  They are both sensitive now about this, as they are about getting their bottles.  They are still getting them, 3 times a day, and the second they see a bottle they start crying and screaming very dramatically.
     Kidville over the holidays was like being in a dryer.  Kids tumbling all over the place, 5 year olds running into 14 month olds, fathers smelling of testosterone playing with their children because their wives demanded it. The fathers are trying to be helpful and encouraging, and the children are just running everywhere.  I had a headache when I left.
     Jordan spoke up to a five hear old who was being rude and pushing the girls around.  Then she told the staff there were too many children.  
     Apparently now they have made Kidville into two areas, "the theatre", which is really just a big room with a place where the "band" plays for 0 to 2 and the padded gym area for 2 and up.  The nannies all looked bored yesterday.  Some just sit there with their "I phones" and the children run around on their own.  I wonder what the "guilty" mothers would think if they saw this.
      It just seems today that motherhood is just guilt, guilt, guilt.  Jordan gets up every day at 6 or 5:30 with the twins, goes into work at 9, gets home at 8, and then gets up  with them at night.  On the weekend its just the twins, twins, twins, and maybe one workout.  She's under a lot of pressure at work, they are presenting at the end of the week and Jordan's traveling without the girls. It's a first.  She has her brother and his girlfriend coming in for the night time.  It will be interesting.
     The other day Jordan put Tess in the front living room, which is our neighbors bedroom.  He came up at 2am saying he needed to sleep and he had a big meeting the next day.  Jordan apologized, but Tess had been unable to sleep and was crying with Jordan for 3 hours when she put her in the other room.
     Oh how desperate young mothers and father's are. They have a 7 year old and 2 1/2 year old and the little one Jennifer, tried to have a tea party for the girls 3 times and gave up crying down at their place.  So, we had them up for a tea party the next few days.