Day 84: TWINS

Okay, so I got a little behind again, this is really starting to become a trend. But honestly, once you hear what my week thus far has been compromised of, you will totally understand.

I sat down tonight to type my post for the day which was mainly going to consist of all the ways that Jack has caused mayhem on my life as of late (this all due to the fact that there is Easter candy in the house and no where to hide it where he can't find it) when I got a text message from my sister. Krista asked me if I could come up with a cute growth chart for twins. I instantly froze with curiosity, was this a hint or did she really have some weird need for this like a friend's baby shower gift. Like I said, I was frozen.

After another text to see what the heck she was talking about my sister told me she was expecting twins! At this point I started texting her back when I stopped myself and said "What the heck are you doing? You can't text about something like twins!" So I instantly called her back only to find she was up to her elbow in a messy diaper and couldn't talk right that second but would call me back in one minute. Well, I wasn't waiting a minute to find out more information, so I called my mom. My mom filled me in on the due date and all that stuff, and then Krista called me right back like she promised

So here is the funny thing. My sis and her hubby have been on really hard times for the last oh, 18 months or so. First Jacob (the man of the hour) lost his job back in October of 09. Yeah, economy isn't the friendliest, and to top it all of, Jacob is losing his vision, so he won't be able to work as a mortician after all which is what he has a degree in. Yeah, it's complicated and frustrating, and just flat out not fair. So, because they are out of a job, Krista and Jacob have been living in my grandparents house since they left on their mission back in December of 09. That worked out nicely.

As it turns out, another down side of not being employed is that you don't have health insurance. Health insurance is kind of important when shopping for birth control, at least any birth control that has high success rates. Because lets be honest here, if you were in Krista and Jacob's situation, would you think to yourself "Yeah, let's get pregnant now." No, they are not idiots, but sometimes things don't run on our plan.

So, they find out they are pregnant. Krista is a major stresser, glad I wasn't there for that day. Then, 3 weeks ago they find out it's twins! Really glad I wasn't there for that day. But today Krista was nothing by laughs, smiles and excitement. I honestly think that nothing could have brought this change on her like twins. Seriously, knowing their situation like I do, there has to come a point when you can do nothing but laugh about it, and what isn't funny about going a year and a half with no job, too long to even get unemployment, going blind, coming to an end of your living situation in 3 months, having a 4 year old and a 18 month old, and finding out to top everything off "SURPRISE!!! Its TWINS!!!" I guess when she told my family everyone was laughing with excitement through the words "That's just terrible news!" It really is, but sometimes the worst news is the most comforting. When things are that out of control and unpredictable, it makes you slap yourself in the face and look at the obvious. We're not in control here, so let's just leave it up to the person that is. He does a much better job at handling things that I've ever done on my own anyway.

In the end I can already tell you that I love what Twins is doing to my sister. She finally FINALLY has learned to sit back and not try to run everything. She just sounded so happy. Sure, crap is flying around her like crazy, but things are starting to happen now, and I'm so grateful for twins already because I know this was just the thing that she needed to finally understand all this. All that said, how cute are two little baby twins going to be? Even if the poor girl has 4 kids under the age of 5. :) It's just the happiest, most exciting, terrible news!