Blue Friday

Sometimes, I feed my kids cookies for breakfast. Today is Blue Friday, and we bought Seahawks coookies at Safeway last night. Why not.

Some days are for organic eggs and spinach omelets, that the kids make using math measurements.

Today, cookies and milk.

#parentingmyway

"Wow, you are SuperMom!"

You've heard it before, or you've found yourself saying it to another Mom -- maybe one with more than one child, or one who seems to flow through the parenting river without so much as a stray strand of hair.

I finally decided to just throw in the towel and soak up the SuperMom comments. In fact, I went to the Tween section of Macy's, and raided the clearance rack of T-shirts, scoring a few gems.

Get superhero t-shirts for yourself and wear them in public, and a cape,or a bright purple wig, too, if you are the outgoing type. Takes the edge off the "You must be Supermom" comments. Why, yes, I am. You are, too.

When to stop having kids!

I have seen many articles citing the do's and don'ts, pros and cons, of having more than one child.

I am often asked whether having one set of twins first make it easier or harder to decide whether to have another child, especially if you think you might have another set of twins? 

In my case, the joys and hardships of having twins, while my oldest son was only 17months old, convinced me that I did want to have another child.

In fact, I eagerly, secretly, hoped I'd have another set of twins.

In spite of the fact that I had very difficult pregnancies and grew super huge due to tons of swelling, I enjoyed every minute of it.

When the babies were born, my older 3 kids were thrilled and did everything to help and participate from day one.

Now that my youngest twins are 4, and the older set are 7 and my oldest is 8, things continue to be joyful, and hard of course.

How to decide...well, for one thing, time between emails takes a lot longer. 

And, if you like to shower regularly, perhaps 2 or 3 kids is enough. But, there is a baby for each older twin to play with... depending on the ages of the kids.

My best tips today:

1. Get a Floor Robot vacuum (Roomba) - the best game in the world is 'Ok kids, let's pick up everything off the floor so we can push the button on the vacuum and sit on the couch and giggle while it cleans". Worth.Every.Penny.
   
2. Build your community now. Embrace the well-meaning people that ask if they can help. Yes, they can. Invite other people over and let the kids prepare for the playdate by cleaning and preparing snacks, while you and other parents sit and drink coffee.