Thank you to the leap year for giving us that extra day!
Well we can officially say we’ve survived the first year of parenting twins. Though I would argue the clock started ticking the moment we found out about them. Basically twin mom-ing is everything you can imagine and more. It is:
Amazing - holding them both at the same time and watching them interact with each other. They like fighting over my necklace and taking the other one’s thumb out of their mouth
Crazy - to think they were both inside of me at the same time. Post - twin body might indicate otherwise
Cute - I will say dressing them in all the matching things is fantastic
Different - if people didn’t think our family was different before, they know it now. Also the Gs are so different. Different crawling different ways of doing things - similar but not the same.
Exhausting - there’s two of them plus the seven older ones. Need I say more?
Expensive - formula and diapers and daycare ain’t no joke.
Fun - seeing them together make all the chaos worth it and the bond they share is the best
Hectic - double the diapers, feedings, lungs, needs,
Loving - they love each other and their big siblings ADORE them so much
I wouldn't trade the twin mom title for anything. I would be a twin mom to a zillion more sets of twins just to see the interaction and the relationship and the love and the connections between two people - the sacrifice of time, body, energy, money, sanity - cannot be described.
It has been said that love multiples with the more kids you have - and I do believe this - but the love and the bond between twins and that which I share in with them as their mom is so different than ANY off my other kids.
Here's to the Gs and all the twin-sanity and twin-love they bring to our lives.
