10 Ways to help Mothers of Multiples (Part 2)

While I do believe it is extremely important for the village to step up and help mothers of all kinds, it is just as important for mothers to care for themselves, especially when they have multiples.
I’d been searching in my head for the longest time for the right way to describe how I’ve felt lately, [...]

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Learning from each other

Twins are a lot of work. They are also a lot of fun. Depending on what kind of day we’ve had, I’ll agree with either the first or second statement more strongly. They also present unique challenges to parents.
I was thrilled when Danny spoke his first real word (I’m still not sure whether the juicy [...]

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Never Say Never

Before I had kids I had a lot of “nevers” that I lived by;  I will never feed my kids fast food, I will never leave the baby on top of the car and drive away, I will never yell at my child.  Even if I didn’t articulate them aloud, I held a lot of [...]

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5 Ways to Help Moms of Multiples (Part I)

How do we do it?
Most of us do it without any help at all, but that’s not how most of us want it to be. Most of us thought people were going to come out of the woodwork to help us care for our darling multiple babies. Most of us thought people actually meant it [...]

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Where has the time gone?

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 birthday [...]

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