You Know You Are a Mom of Twins When…
You buy the latest copy of Real Simple magazine because the you see “speed cleaning” in bold on the cover.
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Snow Day
The boys’ first outing in the snow, complete with red toboggans.
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A Weekend of Face Plants
Boys, you are on the move!
It’s Labor Day weekend and you have been busy. Saturday brought three face plants for you, Finn, as you took a few attempts at crawling. Luca, you had something between an army crawl and a tripod crawl with one knee-to-leg extension to scoot you down the hall. This has been [...] -
Post Traumatic Stress Disorder and the NICU
Post Traumatic Stress Disorder: a concept I associate with victims of crimes or veterans of wars, not parents of preemies. But after reading an article in the New York Times, “For Parents on NICU, Trauma May Last,” it’s clear that PTSD, and the awareness of its prevalence in parents with experiences with the Neonatal Intensive [...]
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Get Your Twins Outdoors!
A New York Times op-ed this weekend, “How to Lick a Slug”, serves as inspiration and motivation that the little steps I’m taking to get our twins outside early, is building a habit for myself and our family to always seek rejuvenation and wonder from the natural world.
Living in northern Nevada, we’re fond of citing [...] -
Happy 6M Birthday!
Finn and Luca are six months old today!
We all want to say thank you for your support and well wishes that have kept us going. The boys are doing great and are growing like weeds. They are both rolling over now and talking and laughing, a lot! We couldn’t be happier.
Birth stats:
Finn 2 lbs 4 [...] -
4 Months, Give or Take a Week
Dear Finn and Luca,
You just turned four months old, two months “corrected” age for gestation. You’ve been in our lives for four months so we’ll go with four. Finnegan, you just became an oxygen free man two weeks ago and have done nothing but grow since then. You both have been chatting us up for [...] -
Feeling Like a Mama
I’m sitting in my grandmother’s glider rocker with Finnegan on my chest, trying to comfort some of his gas pains. Finn has now been home for six days (he came home on their due date), Luca for 25. I can hardly believe I’ve had a baby at home for almost a month. The growth during [...]
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Twin Dreams
Having babies has certainly simplified my perspective. I feel like time has slowed down. I notice littler things and have begun to ponder simple things like I once did in my teens when discovering poetry. I often think about the song “When you dream” by the Bare Naked Ladies. It asks the singer’s baby, “What [...]
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The Cycle Continues: a Letter from Grandpa
One of the unexpected joys of parenthood is the sentimental understanding of our family’s place in our genealogical tree. Hearing stories, reading letters, and understanding our early experiences in parenting our preemie twins in the larger context is a wonderful discovery.
Below is a letter my grandfather penned wishing me a speedy recovery from hernia surgery [...] -
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Twitter- growingtwins: The boys turned one year old yesterday, incredible to think they made it this far. So thankful for our happy, fun, healthy, little dudes! November 30, 2009
- growingtwins: "Post Traumatic Stress Disorder and the NICU": musings on the @nytimes article http://bit.ly/ZaZz7 August 26, 2009
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- growingtwins: Checking out @MrTweet, a personal assistant for discovering the great followers and influencers in my network... pretty cool. http://mrt ... January 17, 2009