The girls are worshiping the dehumidifier like a false idol. They hug it, talk to it, turn its knobs and squeal with delight when it starts. Its love. I tried to explain the weirdness of this to some friends and fam, most of them New Englanders, but the humor was lost. Dehumidifiers don’t translate. I [...]
Posts Tagged ‘babies’
Lost in Translation
Posted in island life, The Joy of Twins, tagged adapting to new climates, babies, big moves with little babies, dry air, moist air, twins, what do babies remember? on February 8, 2009 | 4 Comments »
The Little Things
Posted in The Joy of Twins, tagged babies, breast feeding preemie twins, first birthday, preemies, remembering when they were babies, taking preemies home from the hospital, twins, writing things down so I don't forget on January 27, 2009 | 2 Comments »
With the girls coming up fast on 1 year, I’m afraid I’ll forget all the funny, beautiful little pieces of their babyhood. Like when Lulu was discharged, all 3lbs 2ozs of her, and got her back to our room and handled her like an ice cream cone on the verge of melting. We insulated her [...]
M-Fer its Cold Here!
Posted in The Joy of Twins, tagged airline delays, babies, cold weather, long flights with babies, traveling with twins, twins, wimpy pilots on December 13, 2008 | 3 Comments »
The jungle has made junglemom a total wuss. I can’t handle cold. And I know cold. Serious cold. I grew up in the far north, I know about snot-freezing cold. Or at least I did. The tropics have made me soft. I was shivering in my hotel room and the thermostat said 72. What the [...]
Christmas Hangs in the Fog
Posted in The Joy of Twins, tagged babies, baby's first winter, babys first christmas, home for the holidays, traveling for Christmas, traveling with twins, twins on December 8, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
“Christmas hangs in the fog but I can see it for miles For holly red bulbs and snow I go, I go! And you are there you trip and fall I love you even more.” -Fanny Howe I took a walk in sunshine and green fields today, but I’ve got snow on my mind. I’m [...]
The Sublime Joy of Doing Nothing
Posted in The Joy of Twins, tagged Atacama desert, babies, babies who don't nap, Bimini, Cannes film festival, Chianti, doing nothing, French Alps, Hemingway, Inca Trail, Jerry Seinfeld "nothing" quote, key lime pie, Laura Ingalls Wilder, Machu Picchu, pre-baby adventures, traveling, Tuscany, twins on November 23, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
“I am so busy doing nothing… that the idea of doing anything – which as you know, always leads to something – cuts into the nothing and then forces me to have to drop everything.“ -Jerry Seinfeld Oh boy, I accomplished nothing today, maybe less than nothing, and it was sensational. I really wish we’d [...]
973 Pages of Fun
Posted in The Joy of Twins, tagged adding unnecessary drama, babies, baptisms, books about religion, books messing with your head, Ken Follett, Oprah's books, The Pillars of the Earth, twins on November 18, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I’m reading this book and it’s kind of messing with my head. The Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett. Yea Oprah turned me on to it, I admit it. It’s all kinds of crazy. I love it. Its massively long, 973 pages yo, but so interesting it’s just flying by. I’m on page 433 [...]


Time to Respond
Posted in The Joy of Twins, tagged babies, celebrating twins equally, coming to terms with what we can't control, comparing twins, insensitive comments about twins, loving twins equally, parenting twins, sibling rivalry, twins on January 11, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Junglemom is back and ready to respond to all those excellent comments, but first a little story. My husband’s first childhood memories are of metal scrapers being placed in his chubby toddler hands so he could help scrape all the lead paint off the wall. He reckons this lasted at least a few years. That is [...]
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