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The Rotten Ringworm Runaround
We adopted this sweet little boy into our family in November. We also unwittingly adopted the ringworm he brought with him from the animal shelter. While our new kitten, Scout, has brought us much joy...
View ArticlePublic versus private
This is more of a reflection on being pregnant for the first time, than it is related to multiples, so take from it what you will. I am 16 weeks pregnant with twins, now, and there have been plenty of...
View ArticleIt Gets Better, Especially When You Don’t Clean
When our twins were infants, it would annoy me when other MOMs told me that it would get better. It was tough, certainly, but it wasn’t “awful” during that period so I didn’t really understand why...
View ArticleHow I Do It
A couple of days ago, Mercedes asked us, “Seriously, how do you do it?” This is my answer. (This is a revised version of a post I originally wrote when my now 6-year-olds were toddlers.) I don’t think...
View ArticleFamily planning with twins
Having twins rocked my world, I’m not going to lie. I never considered twins a possibility when I thought about starting a family and even skipped all the sections on twins in my prenatal books until I...
View ArticleTwo of Me
I needed to assemble some new furniture recently. I put the first bookshelf together while my 6-year-old daughters were sleeping and presented it to them proudly when they awoke. J was unimpressed. J:...
View ArticleBreaking Bad Habits
Husband went back to work last Tuesday. After an extended paternity leave of 3.5 months, during which we decided he would reevaluate his career for better work/life balance, he has now rejoined the...
View ArticleCan moms of multiples have it all?!?
Something I have considered from seemingly every angle before getting pregnant was whether or not I’d want to return to work after having kids. I forwarded Anne-Marie Slaughter’s article “Why Women...
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Sacrifices
A couple days ago we got our new minivan. A Sienna SE. I was deathly against it at first, but I came around. The SE is the “sport” edition of the Sienna, if there is such a thing as a sporty minivan,...
View ArticleTalking to Kids About Chronic Illness
My 6-year-olds love going through the drive through pharmacy. They’re fascinated by the hardware that allows me and the pharmacist to send clipboards, debit cards and medications back and forth without...
View ArticleI’m a Home Run Hitter
I’m a homerun hitter in this game called Parenting. That’s right! Some days I practically “hit the ball out of the park” with my parenting skills…but (of course there’s a but) then there are other...
View ArticleSafety in the Big Bad World
I know that my job is not so much to protect my daughters from the big bad world as it is to prepare them to tackle it increasingly independently as they grow. Despite the urge to wrap them in a...
View ArticleCan Multiples Moms Have it All?
Can Multiples’ Moms Have it All? This is a loaded question. It really depends on what your “all” represents and I think each mom’s opinion of having it all is going to vary. Having it all to me, in a...
View ArticleMothers’ Day After Divorce
I was divorced in June of last year after 8 years of marriage. I never saw it coming. Mothers’ Day in the US is 2 Sundays from now on May 12. It will be my first since our family was completely...
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Christian Parenting Handbook
Over at my blog this week I had the privilege of being apart of a “Launch Week” for a new parenting book called The Christian Parenting Handbook: 50 Heart-Based Strategies for All the Stages of Your...
View ArticleResearch-Based Parenting
“Trust your instincts” is an excellent parenting strategy … but it’s not for me. I choose not to raise my children the way I was raised. I have a deep-seated worry that if I go with instinct, I’ll fall...
View ArticleAre They Natural?
If there’s one thing that bugs me, it’s people seeing my identical twin daughters and asking whether they’re “natural. I know where the question comes from. People are well aware that there’s an...
View ArticleValuing Motherhood
Thanks to various things, I am valuing my role as a mother more. I am beginning to understand just how important I am in the lives of my young children. I (along with their dad) am their everything....
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What Makes Her Special
When I stopped by my daughters’ school to drop off birthday cupcakes (for J’s class) and doughnuts (for M’s), the principal spotted me and asked me into her office. She must have seen the look on my...
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Saving the Bad Behaviour … For You
Last week, my daughters’ school held its book fair, so we stopped by the library on the way home to shop. While we were browsing, the school librarian approached me. She gestured at my daughters and...
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