Twin Pregnancy – Flashback Friday

by | Sep 23, 2011 | footer, Parenting twins

“So are there twins in the family?” the sonogropher asked. She didn’t need to tell me I was expecting twins because I had already worked it out. There were two large round circles on the screen, two sacks, I knew without being told.I had already had...

Twin Time -Reasons to be cheerful

by | Sep 22, 2011 | footer, Parenting twins

I’ve been concentrating so much on getting my daughter to school, getting the uniform and the lunchbox ready, preparing her and me emotionally, that I didn’t really think about the main benefit of her being at school. I suddenly have lots of time to spend...

The Highs and Lows of Having Twins

by | Sep 17, 2011 | footer, Parenting twins

To me having children is a bit like those whack-a-mole toys. You sort one problem out, sleeping for example, and then another one pops up. Having twins amplifies this. One of them is happy, contentedly pottering about, probably pulling books off the shelves or drawing...

Listography: Last week I was mostly…

by | Aug 22, 2011 | footer, Parenting twins

I was going to put loads of lovely pictures of all the fun things we got up to last week. But when I looked through iphoto these pictures caught my idea, They show what really happened last week. What it’s like to be at home with 3 small girls and a husband on a...

Big sister of twins

by | Aug 19, 2011 | footer, Parenting twins

“This is the way we went to visit you in hospital when the babies were born, mummy,” my four year old said last week. We were on a route we hadn’t been down for a while. She was right it was the same way we would go to the hospital. I was...