Motherhood Handbook, Please

Yikes.  Today has been the BEST day with my girls!  We have played outside, gone for a wagon ride, laughed, and then came nap time.  The afternoon nap is something of sheer confusion.  One day they love it - actually call for it (bring me their bunnies, say "nigh nigh"), other days we skip it due to busy plans.  It is those days that they do fine during the afternoon, but once night time comes, they are put down EARLY....yikes.  Yesterday was one of THOSE days.  So today, I laid them down thinking they needed the nap.  Oh my do I have two very angry little toddlers down the hall from me.  I need a Motherhood Handbook to tell me what to do.  I have gone into their room, picked one up who proceeds to snuggle oh so sweetly into my neck while the other begins screaming "Me Me Me Me!"  So, I lay the first down and go to pick up the second, who laughs and snuggles oh so sweetly into my neck while now the OTHER begins screaming... screaming.... screaming.  But, when I lay each down, just before the screaming begins, they look up at me with the sweetest, most droopiest, tired eyes.  So then I think that going into their room is blowing the whole plan up in smoke in the first place!  My back - along with the lack of physical space on my body to do this - will not allow me to carry both for too very long and snuggle.  The minute I try to sit down while holding both (or just one) of them, the screaming begins.  They do not like me to sit down when I try to snuggle before nap/bedtime.  So, my back does not allow me to do this with 2 toddlers for long.  So what do I do?  I look at their sleepy, droopy eyes, kiss them both, and shut the door.  I watch the clock and give them 10 minutes.  For me, it is 10 minutes of pure hell.  Literally.  They scream, but if I go back in, the cycle begins all over again.  So, I go to my outlet - my pen to paper (fingers to keyboard) and write it out while they scream and while I wait 10 minutes.

It has now officially been 10 minutes and guess what.  Silence.  Silence!!!  Silence.  Sweet baby girls.

Maybe I don't need that Motherhood Handbook after all.

Oh wait...take that back.....the screaming has begun again.  That's it.  Nap-Time has just been called.  Time for more snuggles and laughs and yes, probably a very early bedtime tonight.  And if anyone has that Motherhood Handbook....I'll take that too, please.