Moms of multiples tell it like it is

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Ironic- don’t ya think?

July 26th, 2010 by amy · 8 Comments

Ahhh… Alanis Morissette brings back memories of my junior high years. The times when I hung beads from my door, screwed a black light bulb into my fan, and rocked out to Alanis with my girlfriends in my room. Ironic was a fav. It popped in my head the other day when I was thinking ‘anything [...]

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the 2′s=emotions galore

May 26th, 2010 by amy · 8 Comments

“About the time our children master walking, they develop an irresistible urge to make their own choices.” (drgreen.com). I recently read that quote online and laughed out loud!  That’s exactly what we’re experiencing at our house– that irresistible urge is taking over my sweet innocent babies!!  I think the ‘terrible twos’ have hit.  Reese and [...]

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My Weapon Of Mass Distraction

April 7th, 2010 by Rachel · 7 Comments

Clothes? Meh. Dining out. Okay. But gadgets? OMG how I love gadgets. I used to have a Blackberry for work. But my first one didn’t work anymore and so I got a second one. Mateo, our son, has always loved gadgets, too, so I gave that first one, six years old and beyond repair, to [...]

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New Found Independence… yikes!

February 23rd, 2010 by amy · 18 Comments

My sweeties are about 1 1/2 now and suddenly have these smart, amazing minds of their own.  Which of course is a fabulous thing… or is it?!  They would rather walk than be in their stroller, they want to do things for themselves (ie when taking a drink from Mommy’s cup, they want to hold [...]

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Adjusting bedtime routines

January 9th, 2010 by Sarah · 13 Comments

As my husband and I were wrangling our girls into their cribs tonight, I started thinking about how our bedtime routine has evolved over the past year and a half.  The evolution is due in part to their age but always because there are three of them.  When the girls were about 15 months old, we added reading [...]

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Room for Two

January 7th, 2010 by reanbean · 14 Comments

Our house is on the small side- roughly 950 square feet. With just two bedrooms, an eat-in kitchen, and one bath, it was intended to be our starter home. When we moved in, we had a 5-year plan that included saving a ton of money- either to put towards a rebuild on our lot or [...]

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Avoiding Permanent Disaster Status With Stay-At-Home Toddlers

January 6th, 2010 by Rachel · 15 Comments

In the ways of keeping things sane at home, we have two things working against us. First, the kids stay at home all day with a nanny. Be it a care taker or a SAHP, it seems to me that the homes of toddlers who stay at home are more cluttered and toy-intensive than their [...]

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It really does get easier. {The holiday version}

December 26th, 2009 by Sarah · 6 Comments

One of the most frequently asked questions from parents of newborn multiples is, “When does it get easier?  It DOES get easier, right?”  The answers from experienced parents vary from, “When they start sleeping through the night,” to “It doesn’t get easier – the hard stuff just changes.” For some reason, I always seem to [...]

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Needs And Wants

December 16th, 2009 by Rachel · 12 Comments

By the time I was sixteen, through various volunteer activities through church and the community, I had walked among shoeless children living in a ‘town’ of cardboard boxes they called home, served meals to the homeless and mentally ill, and had read books to a hospitalized girl my age who would succumb to cancer a [...]

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How much sharing should multiples have to endure?

December 12th, 2009 by Sarah · 10 Comments

I grew up with three younger brothers and no sisters.  For the most part, my toys were my toys.  My brothers wanted nothing to do with my Barbie dolls, Cabbage Patch Kids and the like.  There were toys that we shared but I do not recall any big fights or incidences surrounding sharing. My husband [...]

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