Babies

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”

Summer Update 2024

The two baby bugs are on a blanket next to me on the living room floor, talking and smiling and each other. ‘Talking’ in quotation marks because it’s really just baby babble, but it is full on baby babble and they can be quite noisy. The boys turned five months last week. They’re getting bigger,Continue reading “Summer Update 2024”

Being A Mom

My aunt came over a couple weeks ago to meet the boys and she asked, ‘Do you feel like a mom yet?’ ‘I’m exhausted’, I responded. ‘Yeah, you’re a mom!’, she said with a laugh. Apparently mothers live a life in a state of perpetual exhaustion. In a way I am finding that to beContinue reading “Being A Mom”

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”

Yet

If you’ve been following me for awhile you know that my husband and I have struggled our entire marriage with infertility. We got married in 2016, both of us in our 30’s and we both wanted to start a family as soon as possible. Despite doing everything we could, or at least within reason (ie,Continue reading “Yet”