Moms of multiples tell it like it is

I’m excited, of course, when friends tell me that they are expecting, but I’m quadruply so when they tell me they are expecting multiples. My co-worker and friend Rachel has met my twin daughters only three or four times, but she became an instant favourite with them because of her warmth and humour. You can imagine my [...]

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Nearly everyone has an opinion about dressing twins alike. (Mine? It’s adorable when they’re little, but a luxury people who dress mostly in hand-me-downs can rarely afford!) My boys have a handful of matched shirts — gifts from their grandma, or the fruit of a Target clearance rack. Every so often they like to dress alike, [...]

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When I last posted at HDYDI, it was April and I was speaking with the school principal about my concerns that my twins’ placement testing results had been mixed up, and also that their teachers couldn’t tell who was whom even though they had different haircuts and didn’t dress in matching clothes. And their teachers [...]

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(My name is Ashley and I am a homeschooling Mom to 5 kids aged 6, 4 1/2, 2 1/2 and 14 month old identical twin boys.) I recently heard of a friend’s twin pregnancy and I was flooded with memories of my own twin pregnancy.  14 months ago I was 75 pounds heavier, full of [...]

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This post is by Renae, but we are having some WordPress problems so I’m posting for her. – Jenna We are now just under four weeks away from Tiny and Buba’s first day of preschool. T and I chose to send them to a local co-op school that strives to build a strong connection between [...]

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My four-year-old twins go back to school in three and a half weeks. 24 days, in fact. What, you think I’m counting? While I hate to wish away the summer, this one will not go down as one of the best on record. My kids need routine, they need structure, and they need some time [...]

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Hi, I’m a full-time work-from-home mom of two 18-month identical girls. We are just now moving out of my parents’ house (finally!) and getting our own place after finding ourselves unexpectedly pregnant far sooner than anticipated. I’m looking forward to being more directly engaged in the HDYDI community! One of the books I read in [...]

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Our family just arrived home from our second trip to the Twins Days Festival in Twinsburg, OH. Last summer we attended a wedding in Philadelphia with our 9-month-old twins. We packed the car for a road trip from Chicago but had to divide our drive into a few days. Looking for a half-way point we [...]

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13 months ago, when our identical twin boys joined our family and gave us five small children under the age of five, I wasn’t quite sure how I was going to manage.  My mind would race at all the possibilities for disaster and I would glean ideas from other parents of multiples to try and [...]

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I am a wife, a nurse and a mother x2. As I sit in front of my keyboard (missing most of the keys… who knew that once a toddler removes one key, he can take his little finger and the rest come off quicker than dominoes fall), I am amazed that I am not only [...]

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