Aside from the obvious, such as barfing, you will easily ascertain that your twin toddlers have the latest and greatest intestinal virus when you see these signs:

your toddlers wake from a 2-1/2 hour nap at 4:50 pm and by 7:10 pm are asking to go to bed
your tooth-brushing loving toddlers stand at the sink with […]

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Ug. If this is the way the kids have felt for the past several days, no wonder they’re crabby, whiney, clingy, and weepy. (Bonus points if you can match the description to the kid!) I could feel the tickle of a virus yesterday but today it came on stronger, right as I was trying to […]

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Yesterday, because it was rainy and raw, we came up with the brainstorm of taking the kids to see “The Bee Movie”. Usually, Dex takes the boys to the movies while I stay home with the girls, but we decided now that the girls are two years old it was time for us to give it […]

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Tuesday is the day I have the girls all to myself. It’s our fun day, with no other obligations. Last week, I took them spur of the moment to a small children’s museum. They loved it and I loved being able to do something different with them, something completely suited to their curious two-year old […]

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This morning, because the twins had school, I combed their hair.
The past two times I have picked them up at the end of their day, they’ve sported new hairdos, courtesy of the young women who care for them in the toddler room. Adorable, sweet, girly hairdos, the likes of which I am incapable of producing.
Most […]

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Today was supposed to be a busy day. Davey was scehduled to see his pulmonologist in Boston. The girls were supposed to go to my friend’s house - we have a Thurs/Fri morning kid exchange going on. I take her younger two one morning, she takes my younger two the next. It has been working […]

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Jules makes bedtime quite the horrorshow. Her twin sister? Bedtime angel. This makes me happy in a small way.
Edward has never been a good sleeper. We let him sleep in bed with us. It was the only way I could nurse and sleep at the same time, which was crucial to my being able to […]

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You know that blissful feeling you get when you take an overdue break from everyday life, when you find yourself sinking into yourself in limp peacefulness, taking deep breathes in and slowly exhaling, and listening to the echo of your own lazy thoughts? It’s great, isn’t it? And you think, ah! Now I can face life again. […]

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Within a week, all of the kids will be at school, in one form or another. Edward and Davey, back to their regularly scheduled tutelage at our fine public institutions of education. Jules and Mae are embarking on their first ever regulation time away from home and mommy.
Yes, they are!
Starting this week, they’ll be attending a […]

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Here is the cardinal rule of maintaining a semblance of peace in a house with twin toddlers:
TWO OF EVERYTHING.
EVERYTHING.
What one wants, the other must, in the next second, absolutely have or screaming hell and hair pulling ensues. It was thus with some trepidation that I placed an order for a single crib tent. My second […]

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