Raising twins and staying sober 24 hours at a time.
It's been used as a pillow and a blanket on park benches and under trees. It's been used as a closet for your one other set of clothing. It's been used as a weapon to ward off other homeless folks trying to steal your $.37. It's been used as a safe for that same $.37. …
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I'm surrounded. Sitting on the floor in the midst of piles of clothes. Piles of giveaways and keeps. Keep for next year if big enough or keep to donate. Keep to give to the sets of boy/girl twins we know or the final pile, the KEEP FOREVER pile. The things we keep. The shoes are …
"ANNA BOOK! ANNA BOOK! ANNA BOOK!" This is the chant every evening as we climb the stairs to put our 2-year-olds to bed. My husband sighs and hems and haws, but in a joking, loving tone. He then sits on the floor cross-legged and both babies back up until their bottoms are both in his …
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