Tomorrow, my babies turn three. This is mind-blowing in any number of ways, of course. But looking back on this blog, which I started back when they were six months old, one thing that really strikes me is how much the “twin thing” has changed over the last three years. The last 12 months, the [...]
2 years, 11 months, 30 days
August 2nd, 2010 by Goddess in Progress · 13 Comments
Tags: Celebrations · Fraternal · Other people · Parenting Twins · Preschoolers · Singletons
One and the Same – Winner
July 9th, 2010 by Goddess in Progress · 1 Comment
Thanks to those who entered our book giveaway. The winner is: Commenter #2, Barbara! Barbara, I’ve emailed you, just respond with your info and we’ll make sure the book gets to you shortly!
Tags: Products
Guest Post: Review and Giveaway – One and the Same
July 5th, 2010 by Goddess in Progress · 20 Comments
Hello, dear HDYDI readers! We have a special treat for you today. A guest post from the super-awesome twin mom and blogger, Sadia, of Double the Fun. Sadia has given us a very thoughtful review of One and the Same, by Abigail Pogrebin. Even better still, the author is letting us give away a signed [...]
Tags: Famous Twins · Identical · Mommy Issues · Parenting Twins · Relationships · Twins in the news
A slow farewell
June 21st, 2010 by Goddess in Progress · 12 Comments
Oh, my friends, it is truly a sad day in my house. I have come to acknowledge a painful fact. The nap is on its way out. *sob* OK, it’s not gone yet. And, to be more specific, it’s my son who seems to be getting ready to drop it. Over the last few weeks, [...]
Tags: Napping · Preschoolers · Sleep · Toddlers
Miss Manners
May 11th, 2010 by Goddess in Progress · 19 Comments
You can call me crazy, you can call me old-fashioned. But I say it’s never too early to teach your kids good manners. I don’t run some kind of courtesy boot-camp at my house. I don’t believe children should be seen and not heard (OK, sometimes I’d like to believe that). My kids can be [...]
Tags: Behavior · Preschoolers · Toddlers
I always wanted twins
April 19th, 2010 by Goddess in Progress · 50 Comments
“Oh, are they twins? I always wanted to have twins.” How many times have you heard that one? It ranks right up there, for me, at the top of the list of incredibly annoying things that complete strangers feel compelled to say to me. As with most of the inane comments, I generally give a [...]
Tags: Mommy Issues · Other people · Parenting Twins
Unlike Any Other
April 5th, 2010 by Goddess in Progress · 9 Comments
If there’s anything I’ve learned in the last two months, it is this simple truth: potty training is completely unlike all previous transitions of baby- and toddler-hood. The moms of older kids are just shaking their heads and chuckling at me right now, and that’s just fine. We all come to these realizations in our [...]
Tags: Behavior · Development · Preschoolers · Toddlers · potty training
Learning how to play with my kids
February 15th, 2010 by Goddess in Progress · 4 Comments
You’d think that, at 2.5, I’d know how to play with my children. And to a large extent, of course, I do. But the truth is that I spend a large portion of the day coordinating, shuttling, refereeing, and then getting out of the way when they’re actually playing nicely with one another. We go [...]
Tags: Fraternal · Preschoolers · Toddlers · potty training
Cold Turkey
February 1st, 2010 by Goddess in Progress · 5 Comments
I’m a rip-off-the-bandaid kind of person, at least as far as parenting goes. In most things, I have no interest in dragging out the process. I’d rather have one really horrible week and then have something be over, instead of going back and forth for months on end. Call me a sadist, but I actually [...]
Tags: Toddlers · potty training
Smoothie Addicts
January 18th, 2010 by Goddess in Progress · 12 Comments
My children have a problem. An addiction. Something they ask for morning, noon, and night. (Even more than they ask for TV.) My kids are smoothie addicts. It’s all my mom’s fault. She’s the one who introduced the smoothie into our lives. And indulged the kids’ every-morning request when we stayed at her house for [...]
Tags: Feeding · Older children · Solid Foods · Toddlers

