Posted in Ask The Moms, Family, Relationships, Singletons on May 7, 2008 | 7 Comments »
Random person: “Oh my goodness, are they twins?”
Me: “Yes, yes they are.”
RP: “A boy and a girl?”
Me: “Yep.”
RP: “Are these your first?”
Me: “Yep.” (wait for it… 
RP: “Oh, how great! Then you’re all done!”
Me: (half-smile, non-committal mumble, keep walking… We all get the question: are you going to have any more? The random strangers [...]
Posted in Family, Mommy Issues, Relationships, tagged treating twins as individuals on May 6, 2008 | 8 Comments »
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 [...]
Posted in Fraternal, Identical, Relationships, tagged Dressing twins alike, Individuality, Matching clothing on March 13, 2008 | 20 Comments »
Jason and I have chosen (prior to finding out if they were I or F) NOT to dress the girls in the same outfits. He is adamantly against it, due to the traumatizing effect that being dressed exactly like his younger brother, who was the same size but three years younger, had on him. I [...]
Posted in Family, Identical, Infants, Mommy Issues, Pregnancy, Relationships, Twin Types, tagged husband, keeping in touch, Relationships, right-hand man, spouse, teammate on February 25, 2008 | 9 Comments »
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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