Your teenager just gave you breaking news that will, undoubtedly, change the course of life as you know it. Regardless of the real or imagined challenges that present themselves when your young daughter or young son advises you that a baby is on the way, first things must come first. Your well-thought-out priorities must be established from the start. You should allow yourself to feel what you feel-be it shock, disappointment, anger, frustration, or guilt. However, now is not the time to give a voice to your emotional rollercoaster ride. It is normal to feel guilty about what you feel that you, personally, could have done to stop the pregnancy from happening. Realistically, it is time to embody everything that a parent is. It is time to show your support for your pregnant child. The role that you must play goes a long way in supporting pregnancy and helping your teenage daughter during this journey of her pregnancy. Let your pregnant daughter know that you are there to support her. Your words and actions should align. As a parent, you must never lose sight of your supportive assignment.

So when the girls were in the womb, it appeared they were fraternal twins. They were Di/Di, which basically just means they had two separate sacks and two separate placentas. Most twins that present as di/di are fraternal, but there is still about a 20% chance they could be identical. It all just depends on when that magical embryo splits. And for all of you non-zygosity savvy folks out there, let me break it down.

It's all about WHEN the embryo splits!!!!

Most of the time with identical twins the embryo implants ...and then divides. Thus why most identicals are in the same sack. I'm not even going to go into all the craziness behind shared placentas so for now let's just stick to the sack. (I know, I know....'that's what she said').

If the embryo splits before it implants in the uterus, the two newly split embryos implant separately. Thus two separate Sacks.

Okay, I think that all made sense! Maybe?!?

So ya'll know how I have so much time these days? How I post over here like...all the time? No?

Yeah its because I don't! HAHA!

However, what little time I do have I spend reading. I'm neglecting IFOA, I know, but mama needs to keep her sanity. And I do that with a nice LARGE glass of wine and a good book. Actually I have turned into a bit of a book-aholic. (pun intended :) )

So what did I do? I grabbed two of my best book buddies and started a new book blog! Thankfully, they are there to pick up my slack when things get crazy in my life.

Our Blog is called White Zin Bookends and we review and chat about Adult Contemporary Romance, Paranormal Romance, New Adult, and Young Adult books. Just to give you an idea our tagline is:
 "Three girlfriends who drink way too much wine, while discussing sexy books in way too much detail"

If this sounds like your thing...you should come join us! We have alot of fun and will be giving away quite a few books over the next few months.

Actually right now we are hosting a "Welcome to White Zin Bookends" $25 Kindle/Nook/ or IBooks Gift Card Giveaway (winners choice).It's super easy to enter!

Just so you know, our blog is a bit racey sometimes, so it may not be for suitable for everyone. I added the "18 and over" blogger feature just so the kiddies don't stumble across our sexy chats hahaha! We aren't that bad, but how do you really discuss 50 Shades of Grey or The Black Dagger Brotherhood  in a PG way? You can't!

You might even recognize the temporary blog design, since it looks very familiar to this one. Did I mention, that Holden broke my conputer about 2 days after we arrived in Chicago? Grrrr.... Luckily I bought an Ipad, but there is no such thing as blog design on an ipad. My computer is in the shop and appears to be fixable. Thank the lord!

As for us...
We are still living in a hotel suite and house hunting in Chicago. The boys are driving me crazy becase they are pretty bored all the time. For little boys, Bored = Getting into trouble. And the girls have started crawling EVERYWHERE! Its hell because you can't baby proof a hotel, not to mention two crawling babies on a HOTEL FLOOR!! EWWW!! I've laid down a bunch of blankets but at some point you just have to let it go! Germs build immunities right? Thats what I keep telling myself anyway! Here is a little picture of the kiddos...they are getting so big so fast! Sorry its a little blurry, but you get the idea :)

Correction...we MOVED to Chicago! We got here on Saturday.

Back in March my husband was offered a job promotion IN CHICAGO!! WIth only 3 weeks notice before he had to start, we were scrambling to get the move together. As it turns out he left ahead of us, and 3 weeks later he came home to pick us up and meet the movers.

Keep in mind, I am a SOUTHERN GIRL! I was born and raised in Savannah Ga, and we were currently living in Columbia, South Carolina. Chicago might as well have been Croatia for all I knew.

Sure I had visited the Windy City before, but I've also visited Paris and Rome. That doesn't mean I want to move there either.

Okay, Okay, so MAYBE I'm over reacting. But Chicago is cold, and it SNOWS! This southern girls knows nothing about the snow!

Plus I have 4 kids under 4 with no friends or help in sight. I can barely even leave the house with all 4 kiddos much less make friends.

I'm trying to stay positive though. Things really are not that bad. The promotion is great for Mike, and I'm sure I'll make new friends .Ones who are willing to hang out with the crazy lady with too many kids. :) Eventually!

In the mean time, we are staying out near the Airport (Midway) in corporate housing while we try to find a house.

Anyone in the area want to be my friend? Pretty please? I promise to be really nice and provide you with classy boxed wine ;) HAHAHA!

So we finally got around to family pictures. It only took us 4 months after the girls were born. Don't worry it's not we are lazy or anything. We still don't even have pictures of Holden (16 months) up in frames yet....oh wait....maybe we are lazy.

Hi, my name is Aly and I am a total blog failure. It has been aproximately 2 months since my last post.

So I know I said I would be better about posting, and apparently I lied! For any of you Dane Cook Fan's..."I DID MY BEST....I did my best" (If you are not a Dane Cook fan you tube it).

A quick run down of our holidays.

Way way too many presents for our kids. London laughed, Holden terrorized, and Greysen and Harper ate and slept.

and New Years Eve? Well that is a-whole-nother story, best saved for another day when I have time to type more. Maybe 10 years from now?

You eventually learn that it is really a successful day as long as all 4 children are alive and unharmed at bedtime. So what if London's diet consisted of 4 nurtigrain bars and a hotdog. He ate right. So what if I started crying when all four kids were crying for almost 2 hours straight. The day eventually ended, right about the time Mike got home and I chugged a glass of boxed wine out of a red solo cup. We survived RIGHT! So-freaking-what if I bribed Holden with a ring pop to quietly sit in his high chair for 30 mins so I could change and nurse the girls without fear of flying toys nailing them in the head. SO WHAT!!!!!!!!!!!