Archive for July, 2009

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So I’m an internet ninja. I can simultaneously find you a better bit rate on an obscure old funk album from the 70′s, upload last night’s performace video (I like to play), get my wife a recipe for sweet & sour chicken and research about having twins at the same time.

Not only can I do all of that at once, but I manage to update this damn blog pretty frequently to remind myself of what I’m digging through the internet to find. Even if some of this stuff doesn’t interest everyone, it’s like my internet scrap book in that I can post it, and then go back to it whenever I need it without having to remember where I saved the bookmark.

SO – Today i was reading about how insane life is going to get in regards to feeding and diaper changes. I’ve read that organization between parents is not always communicated with grunts and whistles, and that a good excel spreadsheet to document poops and bottles is one way to make sure Twin A isnt eating twice and Twin B is pissed you’ve been ignoring him/her.

I started looking for a pdf or something that I could just print out rather than having to mess with that godforsaken program, AND I FOUND ONE!

Talk-about-Twins.com has one right on their homepage. CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD THE PDF.

AND! As it turns out, the lady who writes @ Talk-about-Twins.com wrote a book!
Check out: Double Duty: The Parents’ Guide to Raising Twins, from Pregnancy through the School Years (2nd Edition)

MAN I love people who do it all. And I found one that does, Christina Tinglof.

The TCMOTTC is the coolest acronym ever!

DUDE!

Just when I started freaking out that we were never going to be able to afford anything that wasn’t garage sale quality ever again one of my best friends tells me about the TCMOTTC Semi-annual RESALE!

Just a few minutes from Nana’s house is the largest resale of twins and triplets equiment and clothes in the midwest!

SWEET DIAPER GENIES! I am well past the need for brand new crap. Bring on the gently used apparatuses!

Check out the website for the TCMOTTC!

photo credit: themissiah

As we continue on our road to new websites to visit when entertaining the thought or actually carrying the weight of having twins, let us explore some other sites together, shall we?

Our first website comes through maybe 7 clicks in from the Multiples Site at About.com – this one is called Mother of Twins.com.

Granted, I am male and do not particularly care for the fashion items on display, but I’m sure if I was hiding a 37lb frozen turkey under my mumu I’d want some clothes to sport around the doctor’s office too!

ZING!

photo credit: striatic

The last site I found that peaked my interest was GREAT DAD. Something I’m trying to keep on top of every day is being a great dad, and DAMNIT why didn’t I think to use this site before my lil dude was born?

Go visit GreatDad.com and check out their amazing way of organizing worthwhile articles on the basis of where your wife is in the pregnancy as well as by the age of your children.

Two cool sites. One cool dude. (THAT’S ME!)

A recent study by Canadian Canadians finds that women who suffer consistently brutal morning sickness actually breed smarter kids!

photo credit: rubenerd

Yeah right.
Like it’s possible to rate the severity of morning sickness on a cohesive platform, let alone distinguish between one kid being smarter than the other without having the study last twenty years.

I love Canadian studies. While they might be completely skewed and influenced by the people performing the actual study, who am I to poop on the potential compliment to a hurling wife?

“Hey! You’re vomiting up everything you eat! Good work!”

**PUKE** **HACK** **SPIT** ‘What are you talking about?’

“The nation of Canada stands behind you in your efforts to puke your way to a smart ass kid!”

Regardless of how sarcastic I am at this very moment, I plan on using this information when my wife is at her worst.

If anyone wants to be an ass and negate this article in front of my wife, prepare to die.

Please read the following article and comment on its authenticity, its hilarity, its completely logical awesomeness or all of the above.

Study links morning sickness to brighter kids

You have to admit, life is never as complicated as it would be without the internet.

Now that you know you can find pretty much ANYTHING related to ANYTHING within a few seconds, it’s difficult to imagine a life without senor google. The only real hangup is the amount of information thrown at you in 0.036 seconds from a simple google search.

You have to know how to use your own “crap filter” and use it quickly before you open up 17 new tabs in firefox or chrome and all of them are selling “preggie pops” and asking for your social security number to sign you up for FREE SCHTUFF!

Not that I haven’t done that already, but I’m getting better at focusing my searches on the content of sites that seem reputable and aren’t automated robot websites that just copy text and tags and arrange them into a non-sensical database of random words and keywords that bring it traffic to collect pennies per click on the google adsense on the page.

I know, that’s a great idea that you will one day use to make millions of pennies, but that’s not what this post is about.

I am going to give you a few great starting points for searching for information about having twins, besides my site of course! I have found these sites through hours and hours of dedicated “I HAVE NO IDEA WHAT THE HELL TO DO WITH MYSELF NOW THAT I KNOW I’M HAVING TWINS” searches.

The first site  is TWIN PREGNANCY AND BEYOND! @ http://www.twin-pregnancy-and-beyond.com/

I found this site and immediatly signed up as a member because the number one thing I’ve read about being a parent to twins is to ALWAYS pick the brains of people who have had twins. And what better way to find parents of twins than on a members only twins website?!

The other site that I’m passing on today is from About.com.

About is one of those sites that ALWAYS has information about stuff I need to know. For example, whenever I am stuck in a video game and can’t beat a certain level? ABOUT.com.

If they can help me out of a jam with explosive barrels of fuel and an undying helicopter with unlimited ammo, they can help direct me in learning about our twin pregnancy. Visit: http://multiples.about.com/