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We had to keep it under tight wraps since October, but as of last month, it’s public knowledge.  My Best Friend (since grade 4/5, so she retails the title even into adulthood) is preggers with twins!  We’re so very happy for her and her hubby.  And it’ll be so nice to have someone else “in the family” with twins.  Although, I have to admit that when she told me, I just laughed and cackled and howled some expletives:  “Twins!?! %^$%! !!” 

Twins are something. Ok, so we’ve never known anything else.  But we did choose to have two kids at once, whereas it’s more of a surprise for people giving birth to twins.  And twins themselves are something special.  They aren’t any more alike (at least ours aren’t) than any other two siblings, BUT – they have a connection that is incredibly strong. 

From the parenting end, there is no trial run child.  I mean, you jump with two feet into each developmental phase and it’s full steam ahead with twins.  It’s great that they have each other to play with! so that helps when they get older. The downsides are that you need two of lots of expesive things, there are no such things as hand-me-downs, and no older sibling help.  It’s pretty intense, especially at first.  And again, we got the girls when they were three – we never did diapers or nursing.  Yikes – they are going to have her hands full!

So two cheers for my BF, due in April/June (Twins typically arrive early.):
Hip hip horay! hip hip horay! 
Double the fun! Double the fun!