My name is Chantal and I am 24 years old. I am married to my high school sweetheart (Hi Sam!!) and we have had quite an eventful marriage so far. Let me break it down...
May 2007 Graduate college and get married the following weekend
July 2007 Sam starts working at PwC
August 2007 I start student teaching
September 2007 I am admitted to the hospital for a week for health complications
April 2008 I am admitted to the hospital for a week for MORE health complications (AKA we have great health insurance and no deductibles and I want to celebrate that fact since I grew up with minimal health insurance)
May 2008 Our apartment burns to the ground and we lose everything we own except the clothes on our back and 1 of our 2 vehicles
June 2008 (one week after the fire) I have surgery
July 2008 finally find a place to live
August 2008 SURPRISE! pregnant with twins (and start of the blog). We also have to move again because the landlord at our new place is PSYCHO. We got a lawyer and disappeared.
September 2008 put on 10 weeks of bed rest with a Subchorionic Hematoma and bleeding
November 2008 can final get out of bed a bit
February 2009 pre term labor begins
March 2009 after being in labor for 6 weeks the twins come
That is when life surprisingly gets easy.....
We are a happy family of 4 trying to live as earth friendly and natural as possible. We are crunchy, but a chic crunchy. We live in Boston and love being in a city atmosphere. What we love even more is that we don't have to drive very often. My husband puts about 1,000 miles a year on his car. Most of our driving is visiting family in NH and CT.
I am a stay at home mom and my husband works hard at PricewaterhouseCoopers. My husband loves the babes very much and we are lucky that he is able to make it home for dinner most nights. He is also working towards his MBA, so he is busy!
Our babes wear cloth diapers and are extended breastfeeders. I also make all their food. About 95% of their things are hand me downs, which is another way we are earth friendly.
I started blogging as a way to keep family up to date with our high risk pregnancy and all the appointments. Now it is a way I connect with other moms, and it is my "adult activity." Even though I blog about the kids, it is a time where I can neglect all the other things I should be doing. Don't worry, I don't neglect the kids, most blogging is done during nap time or in the evening.
Hope you enjoy getting to know us better....
See this post for more random and fun facts about us.
