Last week we celebrated the twins’ birthday at Rainforest Cafe. Tears and screaming and a seven-foot frog. And that wasn’t only at our table. Crazy. That’s what the…
Continue Reading“Just you and me, Mommy!” are the exact words Sam said to me this week as we dropped the girls off for ballet camp. With the girls occupied…
Continue ReadingConventional wisdom among twin moms–or really anyone who thinks about it for a minute or two–is that having twins after a singleton is not the easy way to…
Continue ReadingSam and Ellie on June 23, 2007 (34 weeks gestational age). It’s been a week since I’ve posted anything. But what a week it’s been. Fathers Day, Sam’s…
Continue ReadingSam has been embracing his inner daddy since he was old enough to march around the kitchen with a stroller and call Ellie, “honey, mommy.”It must be the…
Continue ReadingDining Room After–> Dining Room Before Nearly every day since April there has been one activity on our family’s list of things to do: the rental house. Remember…
Continue ReadingI’m sure that we save those. Plastic and so cheap you can imagine the $2.99 price tag that once hung from them, but we will keep these forever.…
Continue ReadingMaybe I seem a bit obsessed with the twins’ potty-training. The process really has dominated our summer so far. But now they seem to be done. In one…
Continue ReadingThere was a time that my list of hobbies included, “travel.” Back when I was a teacher and two months off meant hair-brained schemes like renting a car…
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