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With my family’s recent move, we had to make a change in a nanny. Our Chicago-based nanny, whom we truly think the world of, has a family of her own in Chicago and so despite our eager pleas, we completely understood that she was unable to move with us and continue as the girls’ nanny. […]

It has now been about five months since the Starfish family moved south from Chicago, Illinois to Lexington, Kentucky. It was a pretty big move for us, as we had been in Chicago our entire adult lives and had no family or friends in Lexington (no family in Chicago either, I should note). Over the […]

Within the twin community, there is a lot of exasperation around the “Are they twins?” question. I think for many parents of multiples, it feels like a question with an extremely obvious answer and also a gateway question to more grating ones like, “Are they natural?” (Well, they’re not unnatural….) and comments like “My cousin/distant […]

Two years ago, Mr. Starfish came home from a January business trip all excited to tell me about a conversation he’d had with a British colleague. While a group of them were at a business dinner, he noticed that everyone was drinking except the aforementioned British guy, who uncharacteristically ordered a club soda instead. When […]

I related in a prior post how I set the stage for potty training my two-year-old twinbling girls. In this follow-on post, I outline our experience from the day the diapers were pulled off and onward. As a reminder, we used the Oh Crap! Potty Training Method. With multiples, potty training starts off a bit differently […]

I’m a big fan of tea. I really don’t claim to be an expert on tea in any way, but it is something that I enjoy every day. Especially this time of year, I love the warmth of a yummy and comforting cup of tea. I also will admit that I’m really not great at […]

So much has changed in the girls’ lives over the past six months since my last developmental update. We moved cities and states and homes, they transitioned out of diapers, they switched nannies (twice!), and they started preschool. It’s honestly difficult to think of a way that the girls’ lives have not changed since their […]