I’ve only got a few minutes here, so its a short one (compared to the ridiculously long ones of late)

1. I had no internet for like a MONTH (it worked a few times) thanks to the geniuses at Time Warner Cable. Good thing I ordered a lot of stuff for Christmas on-line this year. It made tracking packages all that more fun. It also made blogging pretty much impossible. So …deep breath Kristin… and stick with your New Years resolution to let go of things I can not control….grrrrrrrr.

2. Tom and I went to an indoor play-space called Power Play with the babies a couple of days ago. It was really fun for everyone. Marlowe played a lot in the kitchen and Jack liked the learning to walk toys and ride the cars. The twins group I belong to meets up there on Fridays, this Friday is a meet-up with a smaller neighborhood sub-set of that group at someone’s house. Can you believe there are at least 4 sets of twins born within a few months of each other within a mile radius? They must be pumping fertility enhancers into the air around here. Actually I haven’t met these girls yet. I had been to these twin mom’s meetings before and about 3 minutes into it, it was somehow known who took fertility drugs and who didn’t and who had a c-section and who had them naturally. Birth was in fact an amazing thing, but lets move on in conversation OK?! I think it won’t be such a big deal with this group, we are all approaching the 1 year mark and we are more focused on basic survival and attempts to get your job/body/identity back. At Power Play we ran into a guy we had met in our childbirthing class. After awhile he told us that he and his wife had split up and this was his visitation with his daughter. We weren’t too surprised, they were a new couple and they had an argument outside the birthing class at one point and she was really…um uptight. But I don’t really know what it was. If there is anything that will take your relationships to the limit it will be two babies. I know there are many other scenarios far more stressful. But I know for a fact that twins will take it to the limit. If there was any crack in the foundation or it was weak to begin with, a baby or two will bring everything to the surface 10 fold. Tom and I  left there and had dinner at a fancy Italian joint with the babies. They were so good, but Jack filled up on a lot of bread before the raviolis got there. But he ate those too.

3. I had dinner with my old pal Josh a few nights ago. We went to a local Thai joint. Williamsburg is so different from when I lived there. I only lived there for about 7 months but it looks like a different city now. The block I lived on now has art galleries and condos, no longer the spork factory and Porto Rican Evangelical church/gentlemans club. I had a great time with Josh, it was funny to talk about politics with him, we are such adults now. I need to visit him more often. 

4. Tom got me a tent for Christmas. No, not the most romantic gift, (well I won’t mention what I got exactly from Spoylt this year) but I totally loved it. It is a family tent that we all can use. Ruby will probably want to camp with a friend and so she can have our old 4 man tent. This one has a screened in section for us to set up a table. I am so psyched to go camping. I am such a sucker for putting tons of stuff in your car only to drive a couple hundred miles into the mountains and set it all out again. I love camping under the stars and cooking on the fire. I grew up doing this with my folks and look forward to doing this with my family as they grow up. Its a poor mans vacation but you can find some beautiful secluded spots if you try and it gets everyone away from the electronics and forces everyone to talk to each other too. It can also be a total disaster with noisy neighbors and bad weather, but you can always pack up and stay at a hotel and order room service if it all goes south. I can’t wait until Spring where I can open it up in my parents’ backyard and make sure all the pieces are there. No one wants to be the unhappy camper.

5. We watched the movie Close Encounters of the Third Kind tonight. (What were the fist and second?) Anyway, Tom had never seen it. Ruby wasn’t too interested, too slow moving. I forgot how hokey it was at the end, although I was like 8 when I saw it first. And name one alien movie without a hokey ending? Richard Dreyfuss was so amazing in that. I didn’t realize he was in so many amazing things! Did you know he was the voice of the centipede in James and the Giant Peach?

6. So I bought my tickets to Brazil! Just Ruby and I are going though, Tom couldn’t get off of work My friends there are so excited that we are coming. We will be staying in Trancoso, a small town about 300 miles south of Salvador. We will have our own brightly painted bungalow (she calls it a chalet) by the ocean and will have bikes to ride around town with. The town has a lot of African influence and has not been over run with tourism yet. I will have a hard time leaving Tom and the babies. But Ruby and I need some time together without everyone and a chance to warm our bones and swim in the ocean together. I didn’t get in the ocean once last year, even at Fire Island. The babies were too little. Hopefully next year Tom and I can go on our honeymoon when the babies are old enough to stay with the grandparents. Alison warned me not to take any bracelets from Brazilian men. Ill have to look that up.

8. Jack at an entire slice of (vegetable) pizza and a banana for lunch today. He is nearly 11 months old and he has 11 teeth. 

8. Did I really volunteer to make scones? SCONES!? When have I ever made scones!? Hockey pucks maybe, but not scones.

9. OK, so is it possible to send out a psychic flare? I have been contacted by people I haven’t spoken to in a long time quite a bit lately. Is it just because we get sentimental through the holidays? Or did somehow I send out a homing signal? Um, of course not, but it seemed like a pretty strange coincidence. Every one I was super happy to hear from. But wow. We are all connected I believe somehow, so maybe I tugged a little harder than usual. Maybe it was the luck of the draw and my name came up in everyone’s memory cards that week like three lemons or three cherries. I should go to Vegas.

Yup, thats short.

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