Last updated on November 28th, 2023 at 07:06 pm
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- When you buy everything in bulk, diapers, wipes, baby bottles, etc…
- No one can ride in your car because the car seats take up all the room
- You only go to stores that your double stroller/pram will fit into
- You chastise (or at least think about chastizing) stores that do not follow the proper aisle width for wheel chair accessibility, because if they did you would be able to get in too
- You shop on-line just to avoid taking the twins to the store
- You buy a new mattress since you know you will end up on bed rest there for some time so it better be comfortable
- You know what a double football hold is
- When you get hand-me-downs of “special” outfits or shoes, they end up being unused since you can’t have one twin wear the special outfit and not the other.
- Taking a 5 minute shower is the only “you time” you have and shaving your legs is a luxury
- You color code your twins to help others tell them apart
- You color code your ID twins so you can tell them apart
- You want to get out of anything, just mention you have twins
- You purposely wake a sleeping baby because his/her twin woke up for a feeding and you’re not about to get back up in an hour to do it again
- Perfect strangers ask if you have had fertility treatments
- When you eat out you ask for a table of 8 even though there is 4 of you so that you can keep all the food and drinks out of reach of the 4 little hands trying to swipe everything in sight! We all know that a drink in the lap happened at one time or another!
- You hear your name in stereo, as well as screaming and laughter and giggles 🙂
- After a lifetime of being right handed, you are now ambidextrious from constantly having to use both hands at once
- You buy a minivan and are happy about it
- One child gives you a kiss the other comes and kisses likewise. It really is double the love.
- You can’t decide if you should sing “Happy Birthday” once or twice for their 1st birthday.
- You buy everything in even numbers
- You’ve resigned to the fact that a clean house won’t happen for years
- When you find yourself inwardly laughing at parents of singletons who complain to you about their kid and how difficult they have it going through terrible twos and so on
- You can carry two toddlers with no problem
- You suddenly find yourself feeding two babies with the same spoon
- When you only have one child for a night and you think it’s a break
- When someone tells you that they know EXACTLY how you feel having twins because their kids are 18 months apart and it was just like having twins and you have to stop yourself from jumping down their throat and telling then how wrong they really are!
- Your arms have never been more trim
- You can’t park the car at the grocery store without looking for a spot close to the cart return
- You know all the stores that have double carts- jackpot!
- You resist slapping people who ask if your boy/girl twins are identical
- You know what the word “singleton” means
- When one kids gets sick you ask the Dr. to call in medicine for the other since they are bound to catch it to, twins share everything.
- You wonder what the kids will destroy today
- The house still looks dirty after you’ve cleaned all day because the kids made messes faster than you could clean
- The lock on their door is turned around so that you may have the peace of mind they are safe when you take your 5 minute shower!
- When you see one twin, your first thought is “where is the other one?”
- You’ve hear you have your hands full more times than you can count; if I only had a dime for every time I heard that!
- You never maintain eye contact with the person you are having a conversation with but rather doing a silent head count and watching them out of both corners of your eyes.
- You’ve got the cutest home videos of anyone on the block
