Prep School

My boys start school in a week.
I found out that two spots had opened up for them last August, but it just didn’t feel like the right time. We had upcoming travel to California. Their nana was moving to town a few weeks later. There was a lot of change in their lives and I [...]

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The “twin talk”

Last week, one of my twins Alex was complaining about the tag in his t-shirt. I proceeded to show both boys that everyone has tags in their shirts. I thought it would be easier for Alex to accept the tag if he understood it. But how do you explain tags and sizes to a 2.5 [...]

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Foodie Friday: Holiday meals and two toddlers

 As always, if you have a topic in mind that you’d like to see discussed on Foodie Fridays, or have a tip or some advice you’d like to pass on, just write it in the comments? We’d love to hear from you.
To those families out there that celebrate Christmas, I hope that you had a [...]

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For All the New MoMs

Merry Christmas fellow bloggers! I am taking the day off to spend time with my family. As such, I leave you with a post from the archives of HDYDI.
Many moons ago, I wrote this little piece while in a sleep deprived delirium. I needed to write it, needed an outlet for all of the [...]

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N.O.

Oh. Yes. The down side of language development. My son has, within the last two days, mastered the word “no.”  Greeeaaat.
For the moment, actually, it’s kind of cute.  He’s been doing the negative-head-shake if you ask him a question and he’s not interested.  But now we have the vocal “no” to go with it.  So [...]

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