Life Of The Outnumbered Mom

Being a parent is like being on a rollercoaster. It is one of the only things in life, that will wear you down to your final string, but make you the happiest you’ve ever been while doing it. The highs will always outweigh the lows. The late nights and early mornings, will always be worth the mid day cuddles.

My day to day life is full of ups and down and sometimes even a few backflips. Here’s a quick look into my life since becoming a mom. It all started back in 2017 when I had my first son O. I was working as an Early Childhood Educator, running my own classroom full of toddlers while being pregnant for the very first time. I won’t lie, it was a struggle. The hardest part was getting off the floor after circle time. Once I went on maternity leave for O, I started my business as a Scentsy Consultant. This was just a fun part time gig for me. Also, the extra money was great because did I mention I was also planning my wedding with a newborn? Yeah, apparently I love a good challenge. When O turned one, I returned to work at a different daycare, again with little toddlers. Well SURPRISE! A few weeks in, I found out I was pregnant again, and so was the other educator in our room.

We worked together as a pregnant duo, teaching little humans while growing our own. A few weeks down the road, I knew something was different this time around. I finally got an appointment for an ultrasound. My husband was sick so my sidekick aka younger sister was of course on board to join me and seeing the baby. As the radiologist got everything set up, the look on my face, and my sisters must have been priceless. As we sat there, confused, I asked the radiologist, “Uhm, is there 2 in there?”. She turned to us and said “yes, you’re having TWINS”. From beside me all I heard was “SHUT THE F*** UP”. At this point I couldn’t hold back the laughter although I was having mini panic attack. I don’t remember the rest of the appointment as I was clearly in shock. As we left the appointment, my panic started to turn into excitement. I had to come up with a way to tell my husband this shocking news.

Now for the next part, I need to inform you on our crazy living situation. I still live in my home that I grew up in. Never left actually. In my defence, my grandmother was born in this house, and she still hasn’t left either. That’s right I live in the same home as my grandparents. As a matter of fact, my parents still live here too. Along with my sister, her boyfriend and their baby! We live in a triplex. Which means my family lives in the top apartment, my grandparents live in the middle and my parents live in the basement apartment. My sister lives with my parents at the moment, but we are in the process of building them a home in our backyard. (It’s huge don’t worry, they won’t live in a shed.) Our living situation is unique and strange to some, but to us, we love it! Family is the most important thing to us and we love to stay close, but there will be much more on that later!

Back to the twin announcement. Seeing as how we all live together, my sister called everyone and told them to meet at my grandparents house (in the middle of course) for some news. Everyone was very confused. On our way home, we stopped and picked up some baby hats a wrote “TWIN A” and “TWIN B”. When we arrived back home, I asked my husband to pull the hats out of the bag along with the ultrasound. At this moment, he did not believe me, my mother cried, my dad screamed “TWINS?” and my grandparents were in shock. I mean, so was I. It took about 4 months of convincing my husband that I really did not photoshop the ultrasound and that we were really having twins. Nearing the end of my pregnancy, my job became harder and harder. I was no longer able to get on the ground or do 90% of my tasks around my ginormous belly. So I was back home, taking care of a one year old child, as big as I could get before explosion and starting to work my Scentsy business full time.

Today, not much has changed. My oldest is now in school, I am still raising the twins at home while running my business. The only difference is now we have a baby in the house, as my sister just had her first! So I spend a lot of my day, downstairs getting all the baby snuggles in while keeping my twinadoes from destroying my parents home. The odd time they get in on my mothers work conference calls, but I mean, they are cute. Well if you haven’t realized by now, my life is a little bit of drama, a little more chaos and a whole lot of family love! Buckle up, because this rollercoaster is just making its way up. We will be going through many drops, flips and high speeds as I take you through my life of being a wife, mom, entrepreneur and living with family.