Celebrate MoMs Week with The Grandparent Gift Co.!

This week is Celebrate M.o.Ms Week, giving recognition to all of you fantastic Mothers of Multiples for all you do. Today we’ve partnered with The Grandparent Gift Co. to bring you some wonderful prizes!

With Mother’s Day right around the corner we want you to STOP and smell the roses today and realize that all our hard work is paying off. We want you to press PAUSE and look at your children in a different light. Look at all they accomplished. Look at how far they have come from the first time you held them in your arms.

PAUSE and think about how the saying “Time Flies When You’re Having Fun” is so true. Sure, we know it’s not all fun and games, no one knows that better then us, but you know there are moments that make you smile no matter how dark the day.

Need a gift for your mom or grandma? Check out our Pinterest Board.

If you kids forget to tell you today, we will….WE appreciate you. We know how hard you work. We know how being a mom often has little in the way of pay (in relation to cash that is) but is a priceless job that you wouldn’t trade in for the world.

Today, we have a gift for you… The Grandparent Gift Co. is celebrating our M.o.M’s right along with us. Familiar with them? The Grandparent Gift Co. offers unique, sentimental gifts for the entire family. Created by owner and mom of twins!!! Teri Harrison, in 1995, The Grandparent Gift Co.’s goal has always been to find fitting, beautiful, meaningful words to celebrate or remember a life moment, milestone or person. They sincerely hope the recipient understands the sentiment and loves it enough to share it with others and keep it somewhere very dear. The company has many unique gift categories for twins, ultrasound gifts, grandmas, grandpas, godparents, siblings and more.

Today’ we would like to show our appreciation to you by giving you a sweet, sentimental gift. You will either win the Twin Milestones Framed Keepsake or Surrounded by Family with Love Frame.

How do you win? Just fill out the form below and we will be picking a winner on May 1st so you have a chance to get it in time for the big Mother’s Day Celebration in your home.

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In addition to the two prizes we’re giving away today, The Grandparent Gift Co. has two current offers that you can take advantage of. You can recieve a 15% discount coupon code by signing up for their newsletter or liking their facebook page, and they offer free shipping with a $60 purchase. (Please note only one promotion applies, so if you reach free shipping, the coupon would not be valid as well.)

So STOP and smell the roses today!

Mother’s Lost Identity

Our twins identities are not the only ones we have to worry about fostering for individuality. What am I talking about? Well I lost my identity twice. Let me explain.

The first time was when I got married. I lost myself in my husband so much that I wanted to spend every single moment available with him. He had to MAKE me go spend time with my girl friends. With many ups and downs, it got better after a few years. But I had to realize that even though we are “one flesh” that we were still two different people and I needed to extend myself beyond “us.” We got happier after that point, but I never really fully recovered.

A month before our fourth year wedding anniversary, I lost myself again. This time it was when the twins arrived…. arrived very early. This meant I had to drop out of my life to be with them while they fought to survive in the NICU. We all finally came home over 3 months later but my very being was wrapped up in caring for them day in and day out. It was necessary I know, but that extended time of forgetting about me took its toll. It comes as no surprise that once things started getting back to “normal,” I was very lost. Every time you add a child to the mix of life, especially two at a time, it is a huge adjustment of learning how to re-balance life. I needed to heal myself again.

iTwinsDay :: LO-VE shirts/onsies

LOVE is in he air… or in your arms, or sleeping soundly in the cribs, or tumbling around in your belly waiting to meet the you.

To celebrate twins and to celebrate love we are giveing away a coordinating twin set of  LO-VE onsies or LO-VE T-shirts for your little ones.

 

Perfect for your twins’ 1st valentine’s day or for a shower gift for a twin mom-to-be. Or ANYTIME just to celebrate twin LO-VE! These are made with love by a twin mom who wanted to remain an artist after her kids were born. Check out the other twin (and triplet) sets available at Kelly’s etsy store, like the Love Bugs and my personal favorite, the who’s who owl set! Make sure to check out the cute leggings to go with their outfits. You can find her on Facebook too.

Kelly is offering a 10% discount code to all Twiniversity members through FEBUARY 7th (The last day to ensure delivery by Valentine’s day) Enter Discount code: TWINU at checkout.

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Super Mom of the Month: Tracy Brown

We received this letter nominating Tracy Brown as our Twiniversity SuperMOM of the month.  See for yourself we couldn’t help but fall in love with Tracy and honor her for all she has done. Cheers to you Tracy. We are proud to feature you as our SuperMOM of the Month.

Letter from John Coletti nominating his niece by marriage, Tracy Brown…

“Tracy to me is the one of the most amazing moms I have ever had the privilege to know and I have known her since she was a little girl.  Tracy Brown was about seven years old when I married her Aunt Donna, always a happy kid, not a care in the world, no more than any other kid I suppose.  When your around kids at the age she was then, you never really wonder (I don’t anyway) what kind of parent they will be when they grow up.  After all I was just starting a family myself, and was worried about what kind of parent I would be.  I don’t really remember how Tracy acted when she was around my kids when they were born, what I mean is that I don’t remember if she showed more interest in my kids than what your everyday kid would show.  I guess what I am saying is that back then I would have never guessed that Tracy would turn out to be one of the most incredible mothers I have ever been around.”