by Amy | Jul 13, 2016 | My Family, Parenthood
I knew two kids would be harder than one kid. I just didn’t know why. The problem is car seats. With one kid, the car seat was installed in the center, and I could extract my daughter from either door, whichever was most convenient. Now I’ve got the...
by Amy | Aug 25, 2015 | My Family, Parenthood, Siblings
I used to be a “Yes” mom. Yes, you can jump off the swing. Yes, you can squirt shaving cream in the bath and pretend it’s snow. Yes, you may peform opera in the supermarket. But now I have two kids. A little one who’s up all night and a...
by Amy | Aug 7, 2015 | List, My Family, Parenthood, Siblings
The moment my first child was born, and I felt that crazy love, I wanted another baby right away. I wanted 100 babies. We started trying in earnest when our daughter was barely a year old. Which was crazy. Had I gotten pregnant right away, I could have had two kids...
by Amy | Apr 26, 2015 | My Family, Parenthood, Raising Girls, Siblings
I’ve been a mother of two for 17 days now and I don’t know what I was so worried about. It’s easy! The baby mostly eats and sleeps, which leaves me tons of time for imaginitive play with my 4-year-old, Viv. Why just last night, as the newborn...