My Life

I do dearly love my little girls, Ava with her seemingly endless supply of questions and ideas and the twins, Rose and Ella, Rose who is forever trying to get moving and Ella with her incredible smile and sense of fun. Sometimes, though,…

When expecting twins one thing you're told more than anything else is that the first year will be the most challenging. I thought I understood this pretty well considering, I helped my aunt take care of my twin cousins when I…

Don’t get me wrong, when I first became a mother, I wasn’t quite sure how I’d cope. The truth, though it’s hard to admit, is that becoming a parent really changes who you are. You have this world of brand new responsibility. That in…

The close bond between twins is indeed a beautiful thing and it is by now well documented that twins interact in the womb as early as at the tender age of 14 weeks. Scientists have witnessed how one twin moves toward the other, how they…

Some of the most joyous moments of parenthood are when your baby reaches his or her first milestones. I know this pretty well because I'm a mom to twins. I get to witness milestones in doubles! At eight months, we transitioned from milk…

No one can understand how utterly tiring having twins is until it happens to them. When I first became a mother, it was a difficult adjustment. Still, that was nothing compared to the sheer stress that hit me when the twins came along…

A lot of the time, people ask me how my pregnancy with Ella and Rose was. While I'd been a mother before then, I'd never experienced the true struggle of carrying twins. The truth of the matter that everything from your discomfort to your…

Picking out that perfect baby name is a challenge for many parents. After all, you – and your child – will have to live with the name for the rest of their lives. If you’re like me, there are a few “go to” questions you think about when…

When I was asked how we prepared to bring home our twin girls to an energetic and active five-year-old girl, I knew I wasn’t going to be able to provide a universally helpful answer. Every family and every household have different…

Time is winding down before I give birth to the twins, and I wanted to do something special with my 3 year old daughter Ava – while she is still an only child. So, my mother and I decided to take an absolutely amazing Disney…

In December, my mother and I decided to take one last mother/daughter trip with my four-year-old daughter, Ava, before I give birth to the twins. This was going to be Ava’s last trip with us before the babies are here, and I wanted to…

Do you wonder how your favorite parenting blogs and magazines keep up-to-date with the latest products on the market for babies and children? Most likely, they're attending the ABC Kids Expo, which features the latest children…