Moms of multiples tell it like it is

Oh yeah, they’re a riot.

August 3rd, 2010 by · 8 Comments

‎”Sufficient unto the day is one baby. As long as you are in your right mind don’t you ever pray for twins. Twins amount to a permanent riot. And there ain’t any real difference between triplets and an insurrection.” – Mark Twain This week I stumbled upon the above quote, thanks to twin mom Lisa [...]

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Back 2 the Future: So blessed/so depressed

November 3rd, 2009 by · 24 Comments

My twin pregnancy was diagnosed at our 20-week ultrasound. Our twins were healthy and the pregnancy was low-risk, as twin pregnancies go. We were flooded with congrats and well wishes from friends and family. I spent the first week after the ultrasound in complete shock. Sometime during the second week, I calculated what our daycare [...]

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What do you do when you have two (or more) crying babies?

September 11th, 2009 by · 9 Comments

I wrote this post in my head one night when I was getting dinner for my girls (7 months old twins) and their 2.5 year old brother, by myself.  It was one of those nights when things just weren’t going well. I reheated my dinner three times before I got to eat it, which was [...]

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Tags: Infants

The First Year

July 27th, 2009 by · 9 Comments

The past few days, I’ve been flooded with feelings… how do I describe it?  It’s excitement, but also a bit of shock or it might even be denial?!  You see my twins will be O-N-E in about a month.  Many of you have been there-(I loved Laura C’s post a few months ago about Birthday [...]

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The First Year with Twins.

July 16th, 2008 by · 11 Comments

This past Sunday my twins turned one. I can hardly believe it. The year absolutely flew by. I had been planning to write a little post on surviving your first year with twins, but as I started thinking about what I would say, I started to realize something. This year wasn’t just about survival. Sure, [...]

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Where has the time gone?

June 25th, 2008 by · 12 Comments

We are rapidly approaching my boys first birthday and I wonder: where the hell did the year go? When we celebrated our daughter’s first birthday, I could look back on that year and remember everything with such great detail. Her first year seemed to go on and on (in a good way) and reaching her [...]

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