Cooking, laundry, general cleaning along with caring for the twins (read: poopy diapers, spit-up, feeding them) can be downright somedays impossible. At least impossible to do it all to my former satisfaction of just one child. It's definitely a balancing act with the addition of the twins, and I have to re-learn how to do many things while almost always having a baby in my arms.
Which is where the idea of this post came from.
So without further adieu, here are the things that I can do one handed AND carrying a baby (even big old 14 lb. henry!):
- Cut Vegetables/Fruit
- Clean the Toilet & Sink (can't do the Tub yet!)
- Brush my Teeth
- Iron
- Make the Bed
- Talk on the phone (duh! Nothing can stop that!!)
- Wash (some) dishes
- Heat up a baby bottle
- Use the bathroom (tmi - sorry, but I was proud of this!)
- Collect the trash to be taken out
- Arrange flowers in a vase
- Write (short) emails
- Hang laundry to dry (yup, that's right! We don't have a dryer...very common in DE)
- Get Emma dressed
- Put my pants on
- Hold ANOTHER baby
- Give nose spray to another baby (and said baby already in arms)
- Dust
So, pretty cool eh?? I know what you're thinking, "Wow Jenn, you lead such a glamourous life in Europe!". Um, yeah.
But I have learned to feel accomplished in smaller things lately because I have also realized that nothing can take your self esteem to Zero faster than two screaming babies.
When they get going together and are both either tired, hungry, or just plain fussy and don't want to be calmed I begin to doubt my entire self-worth. And then perhaps another 15 minutes later and they are quiet again (hopefully!) and things begin to look up again.
It's a vicious circle, so yes. I take my victories in smaller quantities these days, but they definitely mean more to me than ever!
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