Last Few Weeks

I'm grateful for MANY things in recent weeks, including:

• A great trip to Ohio to see the family. The kids loved spending time with their cousins and it was a non-stop sleepover for 6 days. All the siblings with kids have more kids than we do, so it was interesting to feel like we had it somewhat "easy" compared to the others who were taking care of babies! The first time flying with all the kids in 2 years also went better than expected. Everyone was super friendly with us on all 4 flights except for the people behind me on the last leg.
• I always remember during this season how much we love our friends as well. It has been great spending some quality time with several of them.
• Every time a relative or friend I haven't talked to in a while asks about my job I'm reminded that I still love it and especially the team I work with, and it's still fun and challenging.
• A lot of us did get sick in the last day or so but will hopefully bounce back quickly! Sleep really does wonders. 
• I went back to aerial yoga this week. Spent a lot of time inverted but it was fun and definitely challenging. The intention I set for the class was to be more present for the kids for the rest of the day. I had an idea later that day that K and I would spend the hour after lunch with the kids in rotating 1:1 time slots (with the 3rd kid doing some reading on their own when they weren't with one of us). We let them pick whatever they wanted and we quickly realized 20 minutes was a bit too short, especially for the things they chose. C chose painting with a new watercolor set, A chose lego building, and R chose to do some science experiments. I was excited that he chose to do the experiments with me and one was a Cartesian diver thing and it was thrilling when it worked!
• I'm constantly feeling humbled as a parent, especially of twins. C announced two days ago that she didn't want her hair anymore (since she wanted it straight, not curly), she didn't want to be herself, and she wanted to be someone else, namely her sister. A little bit of my heart broke for her. I'm still thinking through how to discuss this with her. 
• C also wanted to make a birthday cake for baby Jesus on Christmas so grandma helped her - it was very sweet
• I got to talk to my mother-in-law and her twin sister over the break and hear some of their stories. Some were hilarious, some were not at all surprising, and some made me think a lot about my girls. I would love to work on a project where I gather a lot of twins stories even just among the people I know and help tell their amazing stories.