Twice Blessed Life

I have to hide the raisin bread.

My mother is here for a visit, and she and the twins are having a wonderful time so far.  Mom has several times pointed out to me, ways in which one or the other of the girls takes after me when I was a small child.

It’s too humiliating for [...]

It occurred to me yesterday that I could almost measure the girls’ developmental progress by the size of the apples they eat.

WAY way back in the early days, when they couldn’t even walk yet, they ate babyfood applesauce - ultra pureed.

Then we moved on to regular applesauce by the time they walked.

By the time their [...]

I have an alarm clock.  Her name is Halle.  Every morning at approx. 5:45am she wakes up. 

And then she wakes me up.

Loudly.

I think a rooster would be quieter.  She screeches to play with her toys, screeches to watch tv, and sometimes, she just screeches for the heck of it for no apparent reason.

I’ve tried coaxing [...]

We have banished the sippy cups at last!

A week ago, while staring at the pile of dirty sippy cups and their dirty little fiddly valve-thingys in the sink, I reached the conclusion suddenly one day - like those burros that carry people to the floor of the Grand Canyon - that I just couldn’t do [...]