A common discussion amongst twin mums, is about those people who pity you for having twins. Every twin mum I know, myself included, has had complete strangers walk up to them and say, “You have twins?… Rather you than me!”. Or perhaps “Oh I feel sorry for you for having twins”. One lady once said […]
rants
Motherhood Failure Days
No matter how well you have motherhood nailed, we all have THOSE DAYS when we come unstuck and feel like an absolute failure!
The twins two year development check and a rant about health visitors
Where I live, the health visitors are a combination of ill-informed, useless and non-existant. That’s not to say they all are, but I’m pretty convinced that the ones that work around here were put here purely to scaremonger vulnerable mums with their nonsense gossip and then disappear off the face of the earth when […]
Dear Bully
Dear Bully, It’s sad that it has come to this. We could have been friends. We both have twins the same age and older children the same age. Our children are all friends, we see each other in the same social setting and share some of the same friends. But I’m not willing to be […]
Vomit Taxi Services
I recently went out for dinner to celebrate my birthday. My mum, my oldest friend and her mum, drove two hours north to spend it with me. I thought, rather than sit on a cold bus (which usually smells like wee) to the restaurant, let’s get a taxi! I’d recently memorized the number of a local […]