Weekends around the Childsplayx2 household have been, for the past year, all about survival. It has been a delicate balance between getting all the things done that we don’t have time to do during the week, trying to rest and, of course, spending time with TheMonk and Swee’Pea. Many times that balance isn’t achieved and we start the next week feeling like the weekend never happened.

This weekend wasn’t like that. This weekend Andrea and I managed to finish some landscaping in the backyard, we rested, and TheMonk and Swee’Pea played so much with us that they had to go down early for their nap tonight. Next week TheMonk and Swee’Pea will be one year old and, it seems, this parenting twins thing is getting a little easier. I know, I know, there will be many other things that will come up that will make me rue the day I said this but it sure seems a little easier.

It was a great weekend. It was good for lots of reasons but it was great because TheMonk couldn’t stop saying Da Da with all the energy he could muster. It was great because TheMonk decided that he wasn’t too cool to wave to Mommy and Daddy after all. It was great because Swee’Pea gave me kisses all weekend long. It was great because TheMonk and Swee’Pea tried yogurt for the first time – and liked it. It was great because we were the family I always envisioned us being.

Hell, I even got my laundry done.

So, I’m going back to work tomorrow but for the first time since we became parents I’m going back to work actually feeling a bit energized. Who says parenting twins is hard?!