Foodie Friday: Pay it forward

When I was pregnant, people used to ask us all the time what they could do to help when the babies came. I had no idea! They’d ask us again in the first few weeks of the babies’ lives….and by then, in my sleep-deprived state, I at least knew one answer….food! Bring food! Lots of it, yummy [...]

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Confessions of a Scared Twin Mom

Often when I read this blog - and the personal blogs of its contributors - I feel like the biggest twin-mommy slacker in the world.  I love my children. I have (I think) complete control of all situations within, and within walking distance of, our home. I am confident. I feel like I handle situations with [...]

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Thoughts on Year Two with Twins

Note: A modified version of this post appeared last week at my personal blog, Laura’s Mommy Journal.
My boys turn two this Friday. Last May, I was a roller coaster of emotions. I still mourned the normal pregnancy, normal birth, and normal newborn experience that I will never have. I still cried at the unfairness [...]

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Set Point

I’ve always been a big proponent of the treating-twins-as-unique-individuals philosophy. I never dress the boys in matching outfits. I never call them “the twins.” I try to always respect their individual (and very different) ways of approaching life. I think I’ve taken it so far as to think of them more in terms of brothers [...]

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Resisting Temptation

This post was inspired during an exchange between my husband and myself at approximately 3:45 am. The scene was something like this:
Aaron wakes up with a wet diaper, crying. I pick him up, change him and just about calm him down when Brady starts whimpering.
Daddy: “let’s get him up and give him a bottle, that way he’ll sleep in [...]

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