Hannah woke up last night and she woke Hailey up. Pete and I had gone to bed at 9 but we didn't actually get to sleep until 11:00. The girls slept all night after that but for some reason I was up at 4:00 and in a lot of pain from my wrist.
I got out of bed by 5:30 and just started getting ready for the day. I had to be to work early which meant we had to get the girls out of the house early - not an easy task by any means. They were cranky this morning when Pete was trying to get them dresses so I took the 2 that weren't being dressed and brought them upstairs so they could watch me get ready. Really they just play in our room with Pete's ties for work. They hang them around their necks and look in the mirror. Then I comb their hair after I comb mine, put make up on them after I put mine on and we all look in the mirror and 'smooth out all the wrinkles' in our clothes. They enjoy this to some point but it doesn't take them long to realize they're hungry and would rather be downstairs drinking milk.
We get out of the house on time but Pete has issues putting them in their car seats. This is something we argue over quite often. He says - every single time - 'I'm turning their car seats forward!' and I say 'no - get out of the car and I'll just buckle them!'. And we probably have that same exact conversation about 5 or 6 times a week. One day we'll turn them forward facing - but not yet. And we both know it's safer for them to be rear facing still. It's just frustrating trying to buckle 3 toddlers when they don't really want to be in the car seats.
We both go to work and work. I pick up the girls early (got out early because I went in early). And then we come home, eat and do the usual thing...bath, pj's, teeth, books and bed. They went down no problems. We'll see if it stays that way.
The most frustrating thing that Pete and I face with being parents is getting people to let US be the parents. I'll just leave it at that for now or else this post will be really long. We argue more now than we ever did before. And it's not over the girls, nor is it about money. We argue over family, traditions, what to say to whom, when to say what to whom and so on. Sometimes we're faced with not saying something to one person so we don't hurt feelings. And then we're faced with direct confrontation so that things get done the way we want them to be done but inadvertently this does hurt feelings. And when you mix it all together - it makes a recipe for a tough marriage. As if life isn't tough enough trying to raise 3 kids right the 1st time because we aren't getting a 2nd chance at this parent thing. I just wish people would look at things from a different perspective sometimes rather than just judging us. And trust me - we're being judged on a daily basis.
With that said - we know we'll make it through this because we always do. It's just not as easy as it use to be.
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