Moms of multiples tell it like it is

Compared to the other ladies at HDYDI, I’d say my birth story is, well..a bit boring.  Not that the birth of our sons, Finn and Reid, were anything but boring.  Because it was, hands down, the most memorable day in my life thus far.  But, there were no surprises on their actual birth day.  We came into [...]

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Bags and bags and bags and bags! I’ve had several friends give birth to singletons within the past year.  Upon finding out that they were expecting a baby, I was more than excited to learn whether or not that baby was a boy.  You see, I have two.  Two boys that is.  And for some reason, [...]

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Ahhhh, weekends!   Time to relax, kick your feet up and… SNAP OUT OF IT!   Relaxing weekends at our house were soooo 14 months ago.  In fact, I think the word “relax” has officially been omitted from our family’s dictionary.  And that’s fine. With B and I both working full-time, by the end of the work week, our [...]

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Sharing our love for the great outdoors with our kids was something that B and I looked forward to since the day we found out I was pregnant.  As Alaskans, we live in a winter wonderland from October to May and are then blasted with 20+ hours of daylight from May until August.  It’s very easy to [...]

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This post, my friends, will contain absolutely no advice.  Zero.  Zip.  Zilch.  Instead, I’m asking for your advice.  Can you help?  Please? Earlier in the week, Rebecca wrote a post about the shrinking of your living space once twins come into the picture.  Two babies at once = lots-o-stuff.  No matter how large your house, it seems to shrink [...]

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Some time around the 3rd month, I rolled over one morning after a (blissful!) 4-hour stretch of sleep to find a man in my bed.  As I rubbed my sleepy eyes to get a better look, I wondered…”who was this mysterious fellow that I had, apparently, spent the night with?”, and then I noticed that [...]

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