Hello it’s Megan here, co-editor and publisher of the series Multiples Illuminated. Have you signed up to attend the week-long Parenting Twins Conference? I am a speaker on Monday, November 8th, along with a number of other amazing twin experts. “It’s double the giggles and double the grins, and double the trouble if you’re blessed with…
Sally Barker is a pregnancy and birth trauma healing coach, podcaster, journalist, and author based in Perth, Western Australia. However, she is first and foremost, the proud mother of twin girls. Combining her background in journalism with her harrowing experience giving birth to premature twins, Sally wrote Double Happiness, Multiplied: What You Need to Know About Having Twins,…
There are so few perfect food pairings in the world as delicious as bread and butter, cheese and crackers and spaghetti and meatballs. But, one of the most sublime food pairings would have to be peanut butter and chocolate.
Before I had children, I was a freelance writer for small local magazines in San Diego. I worked when I wanted to work, slept in late, and spent a lot of time taking my dog on long walks on the beach. My husband and I bought a new construction home, providing a blank slate from…
I didn’t travel with the triplets on a plane until they were three years old. Not because I was worried that they would be ill-mannered and disturb the other passengers, but because my husband and I didn’t want to. It was too much for us to handle, being outnumbered by tiny people and their accompanying…
I have four children who all like to try and drive me crazy by being finicky in different ways. One likes cheese and the others do not. Some of them like yogurt, but one does not. Some like salad, others don’t. The list goes on and on.
We spent weeks reading all the wonderful essays that parents of multiples submitted to us for our book, Multiples Illuminated: A Collection of Stories and Advice from Parents of Twins, Triplets and More. You made us laugh, cry, nod with familiarity and nostalgia, and wish we had more space in the book to include everyone. We truly…
I will admit that I did terrible job packing for my family’s week-long Thanksgiving vacation to Southern California. As the designated momager to four small children and a husband, I am in charge of wardrobe planning and activity bag packing. Along with clothes and shoes, there are medications, special blankies and outdoor activity gear.
I have always made my own spaghetti sauce because, lets face it, spaghetti sauce is pretty easy to make and difficult to screw up. You throw some cans of organic diced tomatoes, tomato sauce, olive oil, ground beef and seasoning and it tastes like a culinary treat. A couple of years ago my sister told…
Trying to find the perfect person to write the foreword of our book Multiples Illuminated has not been an easy task. We wanted someone in the public eye who could speak to the experience of raising multiples. We wanted someone who we knew to be an upstanding citizen.