This past week has been trying. The girls gave up naps nearly a year ago and I feel like they have been saving up all the crankiness to drop in my lap everyday at around 3pm.

I know this means they need to nap. I get this. But getting them to do so has been difficult. Moral of the story is probably don't let your kids give up naps at 2 years old.

The tantrums that attack us at 3pm every day are just so terrible. Screaming and kicking and asking for the same thing over and over. Anya's lasted for nearly two hours yesterday, following us from the Target to the car ride home to home. If it happened at any time other than 3pm, I would worry we were dealing with some kind of disorder or something. But I am realizing that my kids don't know how to handle being tired. They are very busy kids, always doing something, and this means there is so much more that they want to do other than be tired and heaven forbid sleep.

I understand all of this, but it is totally stressful. Can anyone tell me when the terrible 2-3s end? Are there terrible 4s? Do I just need to teach them to sleep when they are tired? Do I press through this and just deal?

Everyone says that it gets easier with twins as they get older. I have not found this to be true! Things get harder when your kids' personalities become more and more different. Each kid needs something completely different any or every moment of the day. And I think the thing they need most is time apart from each other. Isn't that sad?