Category: It’s a mom thing
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Enjoy Every Minute?! I Think Not.
The Answer: Enjoy every minute! The question: What is crap advice parents receive? Parents get a lot of unhelpful and unsolicited (but usually well-meaning) advice, but can we puh-lease stop with variations of this: “Enjoy every minute! It goes so fast!” Oh really Gertrude, because some of us are on night 867 of little to no…
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Please Stop Asking Twin Moms this Question…and a few more thoughts
Twin moms get a lot of questions, but I beg you to stop asking one. Nope, not “are they identical” – that one doesn’t bother me. (I probably asked that of twin moms before I was one.) And, if I’m being honest, the question I’m writing about doesn’t bother me personally, either. If you know…
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Surviving the First Year with Twins: Must Have Items
On May 11, 2019 it was official. We had survived the first year as parents of twins. Sometimes it feels like it was actually 10 years and in the same breath it feels like 10 minutes. Recently, I was asked about how we got sleep in the first few months after they were born, and…