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How Do You Do It? · 1W ago

Mommy Break

When it comes to children and pets, I can be extremely patient, and I confess to being rather proud of this trait. A lot of people tire of my daughter M’s 5+ minute monologues, but I can stay tuned in. J and M’s father has declared the car a quiet zone when he’s driving, but [...]
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How Do You Do It? · 1W ago

Identical Identity

My identical twin boys are now 22 months. It has been in the last few months that we have really begun to see their verbal language develop. I have always loved this stage of development as you can begin to see what is going on in the minds of your children. It seems to me [...]
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How Do You Do It? · 1W ago

Dentist Visit

I don’t like to go to see a dentist. I used to start crying as I walked in to the office. I think I got traumatized when I got my 2 wisdom teeth pulled twenty some years ago. But because of the awesome mom I try to be I was determined to make sure the [...]
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How Do You Do It? · 1W ago

Mothers’ Day

Happy Mothers’ Day (belated) to all mothers, experienced, expecting, both, or otherwise. Yesterday was Mothers’ Day here in the US, as is the second Sunday of May every year. Mothers, grandmothers, godmothers and mother figures are celebrated in all sorts of ways, from children’s handprints to break
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How Do You Do It? · 3W ago

where my twins’ IQ test results throw me into a tizzy

Our identical (we think?) twin boys are in 1st grade now. While their speech issues hinder their spelling, they’re still performing above grade level in language arts. But math is where they really excel. This fall, G’s standardized test scores for math were the highest in the class, well above the
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How Do You Do It? · 4W ago

Identical Doesn’t Mean Identical

If I didn’t know from an early ultrasound that my daughters were identical twins, I would have just assumed that they were fraternal. I’ve known fraternal twins and different aged siblings who’ve looked more alike than J and M do, at least to my eye. We still get asked if they’re identical occasiona
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How Do You Do It? · 1M ago

Discipline and Love

“Why are you acting like you love J and not me?” my 5-year-old M asked me this morning, her voice full of tears. That was quite the knife through the heart. Within minutes of learning that there were two little people growing in my womb, I had promised myself two things: I would never play [...]
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How Do You Do It? · 1M ago

Family visit

My wonderful mother came for a (too short of a) two week visit with my favorite (and only) sister’s almost 7yr nephew. Oh the fun we had! The kids don’t have many cousins to play with on a regular basis so to have one living in the house for a whole 2 weeks was beyond [...]
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How Do You Do It? · 1M ago

Reunited

I got the best news in a long time today. A college friend’s twin boys were reunited at 2 months old. Her second NICU baby got to come home from the hospital, 7 weeks after his brother. In the middle of the joy I felt for my friend, though, I felt an upwelling of the [...]
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How Do You Do It? · 1M ago

Awaken Imagination

Everyone in our family has to wake up painfully early for work and school. M has been struggling particularly hard this week. Her environmental allergies have left her completely exhausted, poor thing. I’ve used all the tried and true techniques to get her to wake up happy. I’ve climbed under the co
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