Moms of multiples tell it like it is

Our house is on the small side- roughly 950 square feet. With just two bedrooms, an eat-in kitchen, and one bath, it was intended to be our starter home. When we moved in, we had a 5-year plan that included saving a ton of money- either to put towards a rebuild on our lot or [...]

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In the ways of keeping things sane at home, we have two things working against us. First, the kids stay at home all day with a nanny. Be it a care taker or a SAHP, it seems to me that the homes of toddlers who stay at home are more cluttered and toy-intensive than their [...]

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The boys were cleaning their room, as I had asked. I was clearing the dinner dishes. I should have recognized the relative calm as the freakishly low tide just before a tsunami surges in. I heard G, my firstborn twin, making his awkward way down the stairs, touching both feet on each step before descending. [...]

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As we sent our daughter into time-out last night, for who knows what offense, my husband made a comment to me. “Do you notice that we almost never put them in time-out at the same time?” And it’s true.  Very seldom do they both behave poorly enough at the same time to warrant simultaneous time-outs. [...]

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