Linus and Ambrose turned one. Bryan and I had a countdown going, and it became a joke: one of us would say "six days!" and the other would say "until life gets magically easier!" ...
I remember when Camilla was new and we were still struggling bleary-eyed through the feedings and the diapers and the how do we get this baby to stop screaming and SLEEP, for the love of all that is ...
Linus spent eight days at the hospital. Checked into the ER around 4pm on Wednesday February 22nd (Ash Wednesday - appropriate!) and got in the car to go home at 4:30pm on Thursday March 1st. Eight d...
Hey all! This is Arwen posting now (it was my sister Miriel for the last couple of times). I've been updating Twitter and Facebook but I forget, sometimes, that not everyone uses/checks those. S...
Thank you all for your kind words and prayers. As of this morning, there are some additional hurdles facing my sister and her family. For convenience, bullet points! Linus's initial diagnosis (b...
Update, Thursday 2/23, 10:45am: We have good reasons to be hopeful this morning! The doctors think that Linus has a normal, bacterial strain of pneumonia, so it should respond well to antibiotics. He...
Okay, so I kinda learned my lesson the last time I wrote an off-the-cuff blog post from a tweet. I do better when I have time to think and state things carefully. For the record, my official position...
I posted this on Twitter yesterday, and I'm still chuckling about it (although only because the alternative would be whimpering, and I try not to go the whiny route). I made nachos for lunch tod...
So I mentioned on Twitter tonight that I "don't believe in teething anymore" and some people, reasonably, were all, "Wha-ha-ha?" I tried to answer but it wouldn't fit in...
I decided I didn't want to skip this meme, so I just changed a few of the questions to be more relevant to my life. Hasta la vista, 2011! 1. What did you do in 2011 that you’d never done before?...
I sent this letter out with our Christmas cards this year. I've blogged a lot of this stuff, but it gives a pretty good update on our year. I would've sent this to every blog reader if I co...
Remember when I said I feel competent? I lied. I know I am competent. I remind myself on a daily basis that I am accomplishing a lot for one person and doing a pretty good job of it. I try to be happ...
It's Tuesday evening. I'm in a room, sporting an IV port but not hooked up to anything, suffering in a corset of monitor belts, my blood pressure elevated but not alarming, my contractions ...
This is me the day I went to the hospital to give birth. 34w1d pregnant: (Please to compare with this picture of me at 36w3d pregnant with Camilla. You've got to be kidding me.) I blogged from t...
I saw this first at A'Dell's and since I was sitting on the couch with Linus on my lap and time on my hands, I decided to jump on the bandwagon. I'm bummed both twins weren't in t...
When you let an almost-five-year-old loose with Photobooth, funny things can happen. I feel like it's been all-twins all-the-time blogging here recently, but Camilla's still hanging around....
I feel like I should whisper this, but... life around here has been manageable lately. We have: 1) an almost-five-year-old whom I am now homeschooling for kindergarten 2) a two-year-old who seems to ...
Of all the blessings this blog has brought me - and there are many - one in particular stands out. This is Lauren and me the first time we met: (Camilla was dubious, but she's since come around,...
I've gotten stuck on the birth story, and I think I've figured out why. I like to analyze events, categorize them and package them neatly. With the twins' birth, I can't. There we...
Remember these babies? Linus on left, Ambrose on right, 17 days old They've been working on their growing. Linus, Ambrose, 7 weeks old It's fun to take pictures of them in the same place an...
I've always loved nursing. I have sympathy for people who find it difficult or frustrating or exhausting, but that has (mostly) not been my experience. I nursed Camilla and Blaise for 22 months ...
It was May 5th. People on Twitter were talking about Cinco de Mayo, and I had a 10am appointment for an NST. In the three days since my triage visit where we discovered I was 1cm dilated, I'd be...
I never thought I'd have four kids under the age of five. It's just not something that happens to most people unless they overachieve on the spacing, which we were not doing. Although I gue...
When Blaise was new, it was rough. Some mom had told me that having two little ones was the hardest, while others opined that three was the hardest (everyone agreed it got easier as you had more kids...
As of yesterday both Ambrose and Linus have been home from the hospital longer than they were there. In the blur of caring for two newborns and their older siblings (FOUR children. We have FOUR child...
When Linus and Ambrose were just four days old (before these pictures were taken) we had the camera at the hospital and got some shots of them. It was Monday, almost two weeks ago. Here's Ambros...
Just like with Blaise's birth story, I think this one will work best as a multi-parter. Parts of it are going to be slow, because that's how much of it happened: painfully slowly (yet also ...
In my mind, I tend to play what you could call the Reverse Pain Olympics. When tiny Blaise was hospitalized with RSV, I struggled and struggled, partly because I was just a couple weeks postpartum an...
I have lots to write about our tiny boys and how they are doing, but if you're keeping up on Twitter you can at least get daily updates... and I promise to write more soon. In the meantime, this...
What an exciting 24 hours! As I posted on my Twitter (which is the only place I'm updating regularly), our sons were born at 12:38am and 12:41am today, Thursday May 12. Three minutes apart! It w...
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