Parenting

Pick a Date, Any Date

I haven’t published anything since April of this year. April? April. Which, basically means, I haven’t been writing. What have I been doing? Well…really, running after two toddlers. 🙂 It’s a fun life. It’s a mom life. It’s my life as it is right now. It’s been a weird year. A weird, weird year. AndContinue reading “Pick a Date, Any Date”

Twin Life

I have been a mom of twins for a whole year now. Thirteen months today to be exact. It has been an interesting and wild ride this past year, to say the least. My journey to motherhood has not been an easy one. It has been long; full of questions and doubts and wondering andContinue reading “Twin Life”

Can I Be My Own Hero?

It’s ten-thirty on a Wednesday morning. All is quiet in the house. The twins are taking a nap. I am having a late morning cup of caffeinated black tea. I hear the hum of the refrigerator in the kitchen and the furnance just went off. I’m wearing my husband’s house slippers because I don’t feelContinue reading “Can I Be My Own Hero?”

(Not) Baby Advice

It’s 5:45am and one of the babies woke up an hour earlier than the boys usually do. Adam is the Feeding Man Extrodinaire, so he is feeding Daniel right now. I woke up too, and wanted to go back to sleep, but once I was awake, my mind started going and here I am, writingContinue reading “(Not) Baby Advice”

Yet, Part II

The first full week of March this year was a big huge whirlwind for myself and my husband. We had been on a waitlist to adopt a baby for over a year and finally ‘got matched’, as they say, at the beginning of March. We adopted not one baby, but two — twin boys, fiveContinue reading “Yet, Part II”

Thoughts on Parenting

Now that the secret is out and that Adam and I are now officially parents of newborn twin boys, how do I feel about parenting? Is it everything I thought it would be? How have the last five weeks been since they were born? Adam and I are still processing everything that has happened inContinue reading “Thoughts on Parenting”