6 Months Old...Holy Cow!

My babies are 6 months old today. I can't believe it. Seriously, believe it when people tell you that time flies. I know when the girls were about 4 weeks old and I was hormonal and stressed and sleep deprived trying to figure this whole newborn thing out, I was thinking, "yeah right, time doesn't seem to be moving that fast to me."
    Now I look at them every day and they seem to look older and older. Just today I was thinking how Tessa's face was longer and not just a bunch of chubby baby cheeks. Avery was sitting there just babbling away, like she was carrying on a whole conversation with me, and it just wasn't "ba, ba, ba" but different sounds. There were "ee, oh, do, de, ma's" in there too. We're working on the "ma-ma's."

Here is their monthly shot:

It's like Avery's saying, "What you talkin 'bout Tessa?"

...In Addition

My happy girls - before they got sick

    So I gave in and took the girls to the Pediatrician today. They have been fighting this cold since Tuesday and are miserable. I don't want to be one of those Mom's who take their kids to the doctors for every little sniffle, because, IMO, antibiotics are often way overprescribed. But...today was Friday, the green goopiness coming from their nose wasn't getting any better and they have begun to eat less. I have been doing everything I could to make them more comfortable (humidifier, saline nasal spray, using the "booger sucker," elevating the head of their cribs), but it just wasn't getting better. So I loaded them up and took them to see Dr. Shaw. Sure enough, both girls have pretty nasty sinus infections. They officially have their first prescription for antibiotics...amoxicillin. I just hope they aren't allergic to it like their aunts. I just want my little babies to feel better again.
    My job search has hit a brick wall. Two job interviews that I thought would yield great results, have so far still rendered me unemployed. The job at St. Mary's that I applied for was for a "rotating" position. Meaning I would work some day shifts and some night shifts. Well, at the final step of the interviewing process, they told me that they were going to make this a "straight night" position. Ugh. I just couldn't do straight night shifts with the girls being so little. I mean, I would wake up with the girls at 7-8am, and have to be at work from 7pm that night until 7am the next morning with no opportunity to take a nap. There is just no way with the girls' nap schedule the way it is now. I would be miserable, Tom would be miserable. It's not fair to my co-workers and patients either. Needless to say, I couldn't take it. The second position was one that I applied for back in July. It is for a "charge nurse" in an IVF clinic at Barnes. I finally heard something from them this past week and went through the whole interview process. They said they would be calling me with information within the next 24 hours. I was thinking "Great! This job pays great, it's Monday through Friday, no weekends, no holidays!" Well, within the hour they called me back, saying that I was "no longer under consideration" for the position. The nurse recruiter told me that they were looking for someone with at least 3 years of charge nurse experience. Okay. I have 2 years, so I told her that I have met every qualification on the job description. I caught this nurse recruiter in 2 lies basically. She was calling me a liar saying that the 3 years of experience was always a part of the listed job description, but I had printed out the said job description just hours before, and I can tell you, it wasn't on there. The more I talked to her about it, the more her story changed to "well, we just added it to the description today." The other lie I caught her in was that she told me that she has only been the nurse recruiter for this position for 2-3 weeks. Lie. When I sent in my application back in July, I had to call and talk to someone in HR because the format that my resume was in was all jumbled up. At that time they told me that this lady was the nurse recruiter for the position. So I'm not sure why she felt the need to lie? Maybe because I caught them with a screw up on their part with a job description? Oh well, I'm not as heartbroken as I thought I might be about it. I wouldn't want to work for an organization that feels the need to lie rather than admit their mistakes.
    I got an email last night from SSM regarding a position I applied for at Cardinal Glennon, saying that I match the criteria and someone should be contacting me by either phone or email soon. So here's hoping!

Long Time, No Post

Slap my hand with a ruler, I'm a bad blogger, I know it. I need to keep up with this. I need to write about things in my everyday life, so then I can look back when the girls are older and reminisce about the times when the girls were so little. About the day to day struggles and joys I had at the time.
    Right now my struggles involve finding time to do...well...anything anymore. There have been so many things going on in our life in the last two weeks, I seriously either A. need to add about an extra 3 hours to the day or B. learn to survive on very, very little sleep. Here is a run-down on the Ervin's in the past 2 weeks:
    -Adam and Nikki got married this past weekend! Yay! Congrats to them! It was an awesome wedding, with an awesome party bus, then an awesome reception! We are so happy for them!
    -My Grandma and Grandpa celebrated their 50th Anniversary this past weekend also! They had a great reception with all of their friends and family around them! Everyone should live by their example. They are great role models for every married couple. The whole family was together to watch them renew their vows at church on Sunday morning.
    I hated the fact that I could not be at both places as much as I wanted to on Saturday. There was just no way it was going to work out any better than what it did. There was so much running and preparation to get everyone where they needed to be, and to get Tom and I to both events. I was so stressed, that I ended up with a migraine the whole time I was doing guestbook and throughout the ceremony at Adam & Nikki's wedding. Stress, no doubt played a role, but I actually think it was triggered by all the camera flashes. You know those spots you get in front of your eyes after a camera flash? Well, mine didn't go away and only got bigger. It's a sign a migraine is coming on. I had no opportunity to go and take my medicine which was in my purse in the room where we all got ready. By the end of the ceremony, I couldn't feel my right hand or the right side of my face. Thank goodness the new medicine I'm on now takes away the symptoms within about 15 minutes or so. I was able to enjoy the party bus.
    -I, in essence, have had 2 job interviews in the past 2 weeks (each consisting of a telephone interview, a face to face with a manager, and a peer interview). I am still not an employed woman. There is more to this story in another post.
    -Tom's Mom's birthday was this weekend too, so when Tyler's football game was over, we had some cake and ice cream for her birthday (really, how much can we cram into one weekend?)
    -My girls have hit a growth spurt (at least that's what I think it is, either that, or a scheme to test the boundaries of their mother's sanity) and have gotten a horrible, snotty, goopy cold. All of this has ended up with both girls not sleeping well at all. I mean, it's bad enough having one up all night, but both have been miserable... and hungry. They have upped their intake of solids to twice daily (fruits in the morning,  veggies in the afternoon, both mixed with some oatmeal) and have been taking just as much, if not more formula. I am in a constant conundrum of feed and comfort, feed and comfort...there have been days this week I haven't ate breakfast until noon. I apologize, but a hungry momma equals a cranky momma. I sometimes think that since God has blessed me as the Mother of twins, I would've at least been born with an extra set of hands. It will get better, I know it will. I just wish I could do more to not make them feel so miserable.
    I will try my best to keep up this blog better than what I have. To talk about the trials and tribulations of our everyday life.