In my spare moments when the kids are sleeping, I’m plodding my way through the bins of baby clothes and tagging them for my twin club’s fall sale. It’s hideously tedious work. Pick up an item, write my name, a description, the size, and a price on the tag… twice. Cap the marker so I [...]
Entries Tagged as ‘Newborns’
June 23, 2008
Catharsis
(noun) elimination of a complex by bringing it to consciousness and affording it expression.
I feel the need to write one (hopefully) last entry on breastfeeding. Mostly because I have a few lingering things that I just need to let go.
I do not regret our decision to go to 100% formula when the kids were eight [...]
June 9, 2008
Things I love about Massachusetts
After spending about 20 of my first 21 years in Illinois, I moved out here to New England eight years ago this month. I was ready for a change of scenery, an adventure. Six months later, I met M, and the rest is history. Now I live in the ‘burbs in my four-bedroom [...]
May 19, 2008
For the pregnant ladies in the hizzouse
It’s Birth Story Week over on How Do You Do It?. Yes, the sort of thing you’d only find on mom blogs (and probably TLC). But for those who like a good birth story, especially of the multiples variety, head on over. Mine went up this morning (complete with a terrible picture of myself that [...]
May 16, 2008
Unpleasant Flashbacks
A woman in my moms of twins club sent a somewhat desperate sounding email to our group’s listserv last night. She was going through that awful, overwhelmed period where you feel like you spend so much time managing the babies that you can’t actually enjoy them. Plus, she’s in a new moms class (probably [...]
