Posted in Reflections on May 3rd, 2009
I figured out early that once I got through the zombie-inducing months of nighttime feedings, having twins was actually easier than having just one baby. It sounds crazy and I never would have thought so, but it’s surprisingly true. I watched my sister several years later dealing with an only child who seemed far more [...]
Andie (age 10) wrote this poem a few days ago about her twin sister, Rachel. Rachel She is friendly and caring trusting and daring. Her heart is sweet and made to be always there to comfort me. In the dark or in the night she’s always there to make me bright She is my twin [...]
Posted in Miscellaneous on Nov 26th, 2008
The tooth fairy at our house should be fired. To say that she’s incompetent is really too kind. The following conversation has played out at our house many times: “Mom, look! My tooth finally came out!” one of my twin daughters says. “Better put it under your pillow before you forget,” I say. Her excitement [...]
Posted in Miscellaneous on May 31st, 2008
This week has been interesting. Instead of four kids, I’ve had six here since Monday night. (Hence, my sluffing off on the post-a-day thing.) A friend of mine had a job interview in Idaho and so I volunteered to take her 7-year-old twins for the week. They’re good girls, and they’ve been having a great [...]
Posted in Reflections on May 9th, 2008
When I held Cody for the first time, the love I felt for this scrawny, red baby, whose massive head took up the majority of the 7 lbs., 8 oz., he weighed, staggered me. I didn’t know love could come so sharply, complete rapture at its heels. I took him home and spent long minutes staring [...]
Posted in Reflections on May 8th, 2008
I sit on the couch with him, listening to his deep, yet still babyish voice retelling the story I just read him. He skips whole sentences and paragraphs, but he knows the gist of the story, even reciting some complete phrases with that pronounced lisp he has. I look at the top of his head, [...]
Posted in Lessons on Mar 4th, 2008
Don’t you just love it when your kids do something sweet and innocently beautiful? Something that you’ll remember for the rest of your life because it was so darn cute and endearing? Logan crawled into bed with me a couple mornings ago. As I tried to go back to sleep — I’m not quite ready [...]
Posted in Lessons on Feb 20th, 2008
I realized on the way to my twin girls’ very first basketball game this fall that I was clutch-the-steering-wheel-as-your-knuckles-turn-white nervous. Never mind that they’re only in fourth grade or that I, myself, am about as athletically inclined as a napkin (though come to think of it, perhaps that’s why I was so nervous). What if [...]
Posted in Introduction on Feb 9th, 2008
I know, I know — there are a million blogs about parenting out there. So why, oh why, would I decide to create one of my own, you ask? The answer is that I consider myself somewhat of a parenting expert, thanks to my four children and their assorted health issues. I’m a freelance writer and [...]
