Moms of multiples tell it like it is

I was at gymnastics class with the kids this morning, waiting for the doors to open and the hoard—ok, maybe 8—of toddlers to run into the class. The moms were bemoaning toddler eating habits. One mom was upset that as of three months ago, her little boy ate everything and now he won’t eat meat [...]

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Goddess wrote a week or two ago about the joy….and ease….of going out to eat at friends’ houses as the twins get older. As we were falling asleep last night, full of turkey, stuffing and homemade pumpkin cheesecake (OMG, was that delicious), my husband and I were having the same discussion. Every year, we drive [...]

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Last year, sneaky cookbooks were all the rage. The basic premise is to make your own vegetable or fruit purees and hide them in foods to give them an extra nutritional boost. While I love the concept, as a work-outside-the-home mom, I rarely find time to make elaborate meals much less time to also make [...]

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 As always, if you have a topic you’d like to see discussed in Foodie Friday or a great food suggestion to share with us, post in the comments section. We’d love to hear from you. Otherwise, you’re stuck reading about my food thoughts, and this week, it’s cookies. Halloween has passed and it’s November, which [...]

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  I had a couple of ideas for longer food-related post ideas for today, but then I realized that 1) It’s Halloween and 2) I am completely exhausted from our craptacular week this week (someone recently questioned whether this was a real word—believe me! He would not have done this had he lived my week this [...]

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Food is such an integral part of our lives…..and around the holidays, it seems to take on an even greater importance. Holiday traditions often revolve around food–Christmas cookies, the Yule log (our Christmas Eve dessert), latkes on Hannukah, turkey and stuffing on Thanksgiving, pies, sweets, cranberry sauce….the list goes on and on. And if one of [...]

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  Earlier this week, my mom and I took the kids (aged 18 months) to a local farm run by the Audubon society. It is a great place for little kids—there are all sorts of farm animals, such as cows, pigs, goats and sheep, as well as gardens and pick your own veggies and such. [...]

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I have gotten several requests to talk about how to introduce sweets to kids in a way that helps them develop a positive relationship with sweets and avoids the issue of a sweet tooth. Hmmm. I would LOVE to know how to do this?! Oh, I’m the one who’s supposed to write about it? This [...]

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  Have a topic you’d like to suggest for a Foodie Friday post? A suggestion you’d like to share with the rest of us tired energetic and patient multiples’ moms and dads? Post it in the comments section! We always love to hear from you. This post is going to be short—dissertation proposal is heading into [...]

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The New York Times had an interesting article last week which identified six food “mistakes” that parents commonly make. If you didn’t get a chance to see it, check it out! I always enjoy gathering more information about the tricky topic of feeding and kids—-even if (or maybe especially if?) the information just confirms what [...]

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