Moms of multiples tell it like it is

Technical difficulties prevented this post from being published on Sunday, October 10. M and J are five years old. In all those years, neither of them has ever asked for time away from her sister. From time to time, they have chosen to pursue different activities with one parent or the other, but my husband [...]

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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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A few weeks ago, our 5-year-old twins J and M were pre-schoolers. I’d clock off work around 5:00, and drive to their pre-school to pick them up. When I reached daycare around 6:00 pm, they were always bursting with stories, discoveries, and questions to share with me. They’d trip over each in other their attempts to [...]

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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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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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Earlier this month, I wrote a post about marriage and multiples which included a link to the MOST (Mothers of Supertwins) survey about Divorce and the Multiple Birth Family.  After gathering survey data for a month, the preliminary results are available. 2,849 parents and guardians of multiples completed the MOST Divorce and the Multiple Birth [...]

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There has been a lot of talk in the media recently about how having multiples effects marriages.  There seems to be the idea that parents of multiples are more likely to divorce, though there aren’t any easy statistics specifically on this topic.  In response to this media coverage, parents of multiples are responding: The website [...]

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Some time around the 3rd month, I rolled over one morning after a (blissful!) 4-hour stretch of sleep to find a man in my bed.  As I rubbed my sleepy eyes to get a better look, I wondered…”who was this mysterious fellow that I had, apparently, spent the night with?”, and then I noticed that [...]

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