Moms of multiples tell it like it is

I wish I had known about this tradition when my children were younger.  In a nutshell, your children write a letter to Santa asking him if he can spare an elf for the holiday season.  Around Thanksgiving you leave the letter, along with some saltine crackers (which crunch like snow) and water (melted snow). The [...]

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I’ve been thinking about the title of our blog.  I feel that I need to pass along wisdom about “how I do it” but lately I’m not sure that I’m doing it very well. My husband and I got through pregnancies, deliveries, infancy, toddlerhood, tantrums and potty training.  We knew it would all pass (although [...]

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The holidays are a time of traditions, and families with young children are in a position to create new and wonderful traditions that they hope their children will long remember. But while we adults picture the festive holiday meals and the visits to Santa, traditions in a child’s mind can be very different. I’ll take [...]

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In an effort to keep my readers informed, I am going to spend some time today explaining an important, but often overlooked, law that will affect all of us in the near future. I’m speaking of the Candy Tax. Not only is this a Federal statute, I think it is worldwide. I believe this law [...]

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If I were a teacher at Hogwarts, I’m sure I could get my kids to behave by a wave of a wand and a few choice words. Being mortal, however, I have to rely on carefully chosen words alone. I’m a firm believer in not negotiating when something absolutely must be done.  There are times [...]

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“There is no such thing as a moral book or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written. That is all.” – Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891 The last week of September is banned books week, marked by booksellers and libraries across the United States. As I’ve been looking into [...]

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Today marks 100 days until Christmas. I enjoyed Christmas before I had kids, but when I had an army attacking the Christmas tree in the early hours of Christmas morning, I knew the real joy of the holidays.  The key to staying sane through the season is to get organized.  I have a friend who [...]

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Do you dress your twins alike?  I’m a firm believer in giving my twins choices in many things, and clothing has turned out to be another surprising one. I was given many coordinating outfits when my twins were babies, and I really think there is nothing more adorable than two tiny people in matching footy [...]

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Goddess in Progress recently touched on the subject of making time for yourself.  I’d like to propose something even more radical.  Make time to be creative. I first started quilting when my twins were four months old and my oldest was not yet two years old.  Sounds like a crazy time to take up a [...]

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First day of kindergarten My boy/girl twins have been in the same classroom every year through fourth grade.  I am lucky to live in a school district where parents can voice their preferences for placing twins in classrooms.   There are at least six sets of twins that I know of at our elementary school and [...]

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