Moms of multiples tell it like it is

Hi, I’m Krystle. I’m new to HDYDI, I’m a wife to a Firefighter, a daughter, a friend, who is newly-back-to-work-full-time, a blogger, a type A, a runner, a clean freak, a true multi-tasker, and a mother-extraordinaire to 13-month-old fraternal (we think) twin girls… Did you get all that? I’ve always preferred to be busy, perhaps [...]

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In those first few crazy, housebound, sleep deprived months after we brought home our twin boys, what saved me was knowing I was not alone. I love reading blogs about fellow multiple mamas and have learned a lot from the  HDYDI community. Fast forward 17 months, and the challenges have changed just when I was [...]

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Internet, today I sent my boys back to school after spring break. And I hated it. If you’ve met me [online] or my children [in real life] you know how odd it is for me to want them in the house more. They yell. They chase. They maraud. They fight. They plunder. I reupholstered my [...]

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Thank you for all of your advice and support after my last post[-ing binge], regarding my suspicions that my boys’ kindergarten teacher has mixed them up more times than is really excusable. After taking some time to cool down, I’ve decided: Their teacher is a good teacher. She is kind, she works really hard, and [...]

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Friends, thank you for weighing in on my previous post. (Also, forgive me for posting twice in a row as if this were my personal blog.) Based on Mommy, Esq.’s comment on how it hurt her feelings to be confused with her sister, even though they had way different hairstyles, and on torie’s comment about [...]

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“What does it matter if she mixes them up? They look just alike.” – my grandmother, regarding my safeguards against confusing our infant twins Normally I’m not too hard on people who say “stupid” things about twins. I say a lot of stupid things myself. But today I shall regale you with a tale of [...]

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Do you like what I did up there? Twindergarten? When I thought of that this afternoon, I dislocated my shoulder patting myself on the back. Okay. I must preface this post by saying I love the boys’ kindergarten teacher. Love her! She’s the perfect teacher for them, and I hope my youngest will also have [...]

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Oh, Blogworld. I’ve written before about my boys’ speech issues, and about their speech therapy “homework,” and about how well it fits into our evening routine. They are trying really hard at speech. P has corrected a few of his significant errors and is a lot easier to understand now. G is working hard at [...]

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My boys are in all-day kindergarten. When my daughter started all-day kindergarten two years ago, I was shocked to discover that there is a substantial amount of homework for all-day kindergarteners. Now I’m even more overwhelmed, because: I have a 2nd grader and TWO kindergarteners My husband works 2nd shift and isn’t around to help [...]

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I’ve found that I mentally separate moms of twins into two categories. On one hand are the TWIN MOMS, who are really into having twins. They wear the t-shirts, have the bumper stickers, their kids always match, etc. On the other hand are the twin moms. Lower case. They are the ones who were always [...]

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