Father’s Day Musings on Stepping Up, Sleep and Savings!

When you start a family of your own, Father’s Day takes on so much more meaning. It of course provides fresh perspective and makes you appreciate the sacrifices your own father figures made to raise you and give you the life you’ve had, but it also forces you to step back and value your own spouse or companion for the job they do every day to raise your kids.

Being a twin mom means you usually appreciate the idea of partnership in parenthood a bit earlier on. One person just doesn’t have enough limbs to simultaneously tackle bedtime, bathing, feeding and diapering two babies. You quickly learn to rely on your significant other to carry a heavy, if not equal load, and as your kids get older, even more crucial is the learned skill of balancing your own schedules so that each parent has time to focus on themselves as well.

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Real Mom Moments: Pampers Giveaway

Social media has a way of glossing over the less glamorous realities of being a new mom. Looking back at my first few months (or let’s be honest, year), my experience was nothing like the softly lit photos I saw bloggers post daily with sweet sleeping babies lying on Benny Ourain rugs.

I was recovering from a C section and exhausted out of my mind while nursing, pumping, and preparing bottles of formula for two colicky babies. No Instagram filter could disguise the emotional and physical hurricane I was in the middle of (Hello hormones! Hello sleep deprivation!)

I got through the early days with the bottomless supply of support and encouragement from my family and friends, by taking advantage of the hired help that was graciously afforded to me and most of all, by having a good sense of humour! If you can’t laugh at the realities of having to clean up back to back spit up explosions or giggle just a bit when you see two toddlers sitting throwing a tantrum together, than you’re going to make the job of being a mom a lot tougher on yourself.
With Mother’s Day this weekend and today on National Baby Day, I am happy to share a video that Pampers has created that embraces being real with a smile. It’s a video called #pamperspooface

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