Moms of multiples tell it like it is

We’re gearing up for a major two-day, 600-mile road trip and our backseat will be full of two 2.5 year olds and not much else. Even our car is not ready for this kind of a trip. And, for two people who have had trouble going a half-hour to the outlets to shop, a road [...]

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I have two toddler girls and they couldn’t be more different in personalities. One could easily sit and play with a toy for an hour. Problem is, her sister always wants THAT toy — she’s a grass-is-greener-on-the-other-side kind of girl. Argument ensues; Mama intervenes, and it’s never easy to transition back into quiet-play mode. But, [...]

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While I do believe it is extremely important for the village to step up and help mothers of all kinds, it is just as important for mothers to care for themselves, especially when they have multiples. I’d been searching in my head for the longest time for the right way to describe how I’ve felt [...]

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How do we do it? Most of us do it without any help at all, but that’s not how most of us want it to be. Most of us thought people were going to come out of the woodwork to help us care for our darling multiple babies. Most of us thought people actually meant [...]

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For my first post last week, I talked about how simple planning can help a day go smoother. I talked about how you need to sit down the night before and just plot out a few activities (or more) to do the next day with your young children or babies. This, I said, is more [...]

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Remember that old saying you heard, oh, let’s see … once, maybe twice, maybe a hundred times? Sweet whispers caressed your pillow night after night and they all went something like this: It will get easier. I think I remember throwing a flower pot or something very heavy at someone after they said something like [...]

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