Eclectic Muddlehood

As another holiday melody drifts across the living room and into the kitchen, I find myself suspended in bliss. I smile to myself as my ears hear “fall on your knees, all hear the angels’ voices.” This morning I hear them in the sparkling crystal laughter shared between us as my eldest daughter and I […]

My husband and I attended my tenth high school reunion last Saturday and, all in all, had a smashing good time. It was filled with the usual reunion cliches of course; the people who looked exactly the same, the people who looked better and the people who looked worse. There was the assortment of lawyers […]

It has been almost 19 weeks since their birth and although life improves weekly, there is still a great deal of healing that must take place. The edges of my scar have started aching in the morning after each grueling night of what a fellow twin mother refers to as rotisserie nursing. Staring in the […]

I’ve had a rough few weeks nursing babies with voracious appetites, pacifying a tragically wounded toddler and refereeing verbal jousting matches between my husband and live-in sister. I am exhausted and stressed and my body chose to let me know about it with my first post-pregnancy migraine last night. But all my tears and frustrations […]

I was driving home from an incredibly difficult birth at one of the area’s busiest hospitals early on November morning when I felt an overwhelming, swirling sense of energy in my womb, right about at my sacral chakra. I could see the energy dance and spin in my mind’s eye, a brilliant orange. My doula […]

As I have begun to start truly processing the twins’ pregnancy, labor and birth, I recently re-discovered three poems I wrote in the days leading up to their birth. Re-reading them, I experience a wide array of emotions, both joyful and sorrowful and I recognize within them wisdom and hope that was not obviously apparent […]

IT HAPPENED!! I have been struck with the dreaded matching disease. We usually buy all our kids’ clothes through consignment shops and sales, but I have suddenly been struck with the overwhelming obsessive desire to hunt down and accquire matching and coordinating outfits for my twins. I swear I didn’t think this would happen to […]

I have at least five blog entries knocking around in my head, just dying to claw their way out onto the screen. But alas, they have yet to make it here. Mothering newborn twins is next to impossible. Add the toddler and you basically have daily chaos. I knew this was going to be challenging, […]

I believe in the power of the waning moon, she who heralds times of greatest transformation through the dark passages from one state of being to the next. These precious opportunities to begin anew, changed forever from the edges of our souls to the depths of our hearts, yet still filled with the same essence […]

I had the distinct pleasure of watching my tiny son projectile poop all over my sister when she was trying to change him. I laughed so hard my stitches hurt! Leave it to my children to help me keep it all in perspective.