Category: Parenting
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A Train of Thought
Recently, someone gave us a box of conversation starter cards to use with kids. The cards cover a range of topics, and have been a fun way for us to talk about some different things at our dinner table. Sometimes Finley’s answers are predictable and sometimes they catch me totally…
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What Does Normal Even Mean?
The algorithm knows me well and frequently feeds me parenting/mothering specific content. There’s a lot of it. Something I’ve been seeing more lately is posts with the general idea that it takes mothers some extended amount of time to “return to normal” after giving birth. I’ve seen it in a…
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I Wish I Knew
When we found out we were having twins, we of course asked everyone we knew or met with twins for advice. We heard a huge variety of advice that sometimes contradicted itself. But one thing that almost everyone told us was that the first six months would be unbelievably hard…
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Thriving
Since the twins were born (almost 6 months ago!), I have been thinking a lot about trying to make the most of the time I have with them little. I sometimes look back with a twinge of regret at the first few years of Finley’s life. I was in a…
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I have no idea what I’m doing
Parenting is so weird. I remember a few weeks after having my son, I told Kent that I felt like Michael Scott: There’s this strange idea that once you become a parent, particularly a mother, there’s some sort of instinct that kicks in and you’ll just know what to do.…
The Unexpected Life 