I brought Joey home first and honestly thought, This is so easy. What are moms complaining about? Once Slim came home, it was a little more hectic; but in no time we were on a schedule of naps and stories and tummy time and feedings. I had the mom gig down to a "T."
Until they were about 15 months old, that is. Then they entered what I would later find out were the beginnings of the "terrible twos."
I mean, holy cow! What had I done wrong? How had I screwed my little darlings up so much that they were throwing temper tantrums and banging their cute little heads on the floor and pulling each other to the ground? Was it because I was pregnant again? Could they sense impending competition? Were they planning a coup d'etat?
Now, nine years, three more babies, and several parenting guffaws later I realize that while some things about parenting were easy for me, I seemed to have put out of my mind the things that were not; namely, the terrible twos. But there were also the sleepless nights trying to nurse two babies, there was a baby who got his nights and days mixed up until he was eleven months old, a baby who wouldn't take a bottle and seemed to want to nurse 24/7, there was a toddler who was extremely jealous of a new baby's arrival (so much so that he punched me right in my engorged breast and gave me mastitis), there was the toddler who wouldn't eat anything but Goldfish crackers, and now, oh my goodness NOW all the sibling rivalry. So much sibling rivalry!
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*I was compensated by MomAssembly for this post, but the admission of my parenting failures and my thankfulness for MomAssembly's parenting videos are all my own.
