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Like many of you, I subscribe to a number of parenting blogs about raising twins, now that I’m on course for watching them shoot out of wifey’s hoo-ha, it seems pretty necessary to beef up my brain to prepare for the onslaught.

One of my favorites is http://www.dadsguidetotwins.com and the guy who authors it, Joe, is always open to questions from his readers.

WELL I HAVE QUESTIONS!

The one that I am constantly reminded about is the morning shuffle off to daycare/work. How does one manage to get out the door for work WITH TWINS?!

So I asked this very question and Joe, the stand up guy he is, wrote back! He’s real! He isn’t a robot with twins! He’s a human awesome machine!

Below is Joe’s response and I’m thankful to have a better “nuts & bolts” idea of how a married couple gets the army out the door every morning.

I got an email the other day from Joel at havingtwinsnow.com. He asked me how I even get out of the house in the morning to go to work.

This is a great question and I thought the answer would benefit you as well.

Indeed, having twins, and especially twins along with other siblings can make for a full and crazy house.

Right now, we’ve got two boys ages 4 and 3 and 15 month old twin girls.

My typical morning goes like this:

I wake up by 6:00am.

If the kids are still asleep, I jump in the shower and get ready. My wife may be at the gym exercising, handling the kids if they are awake, or still asleep.

By 6:30, I’m dressed and ready for the day. The kids are awake by this time and our older boys have already started wandering around the house. The twins will be in their cribs squawking for attention.

I’ll get all four kids to the kitchen and start them on breakfast.

If my wife was at the gym, she’ll arrive home around this time and then take a shower and get dressed while I finish up breakfast with the kids.

While the kids are eating, I’ll eat breakfast and pack a lunch to take to work.

As the kids finish eating, I’ll help them get dressed or point them in the right direction. Our four year old can get dressed himself. Our three year old takes some effort.

I’ll clean up our 15 month old twins and carry or lead them to their room to get dressed. I’ll change their diapers, get them dressed and then set them free to play and roam around the house.

About the time the kids are ready, my wife will finish up her morning preparations and will relieve me while I brush my teeth, put on my shoes and get ready to leave.

We’ll have family prayer together and then I give everyone hugs and kisses.

Goodbyes are probably the hardest part of the morning since all the kids either want multiple hugs or don’t want me to go to work.

I’m usually out and on the way to work by 7:45am.

We’ve got our system down pretty good but it varies day-to-day based on the randomness of life. Fortunately my wife is flexible with her schedule, I have a short commute and don’t always have to be to work at a specific time.

We are able to have a smooth morning routine because our kids have predictable sleep schedules (thanks to Good Night Sleep Tight) and we make sure the house is cleaned up the night before so everything is in order when we wake up.

Hope this peak into my morning routine helps as you conquer the morning with your little ones.

Best Regards,
Joe Rawlinson

Joe rules. So go visit his website: DadsGuideToTwins.com or I’ll cry.

Thankfully, my current twitterfeed consists of porn stars and the mothers and fathers of twins and multiples. So when I’m not in the mood for stories about chapped nipples, projectile vomiting, poop up the backs of pajamas, or all night crying fits; I can always go look at some surgically altered breasticles and backsides.

Am I gross? Should I be punished? Are you thinking “what a perv!”?

I don’t really care what your opinion of me, but I can honestly say from a father’s standpoint, that the best way to give a man a refresher is to shove some fake tanned boobs in his face. I want to stay on top of my game so my twitterfeed is 90% twins, parenting and twin parenting related and 10% boobs. If I ever freak out I will up my boob intake by a minimum of 10%. It’ll be the tits!

SO, back to what I’m HELL YEAH-ing about regarding the internet today. I was going through twitter this afternoon and came across this article about Twin Support Groups and why it is a good idea to join one. At first I was like “Ah man, a group of whiny parents talking about chapped nipples, projectile vomiting, poop up the backs of pajamas, or all night crying fits – where’s the boobs?” But then I read this article and I am now convinced that the more reinforcements I have alongside me, the better my kids existence will be.

It’s a win win situation! I go listen to some talk about chapped nipples, projectile vomiting, poop up the backs of pajamas, and all night crying fits, then maybe I slip out the back, light a cigar, sip some Johnny Walker Red and talk boobs with the other twinpadres ay?

SEE! It all comes back to boobs! We come out attached at the nip, we die trying desperately to attach ourselves to more nips!

Regardless of my fascination with boobs today, I found a great article on a great blog (http://www.twinparenthood.com) that I will now follow like I follow boobs.

Read this article here: Top 10 Reasons to Join a Twins / Multiples Support Group

May your nipples remain unchapped, your kids vomit only trickle, their poop stay in it’s diaper and may they sleep through the night.

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Yea yea yea, I forgot to tell you about the HTN twitter account name. I’m an idiot.

Our Twitter account is http://twitter.com/havingtwinsnow

At any given time, myself, Julie or our 20 month old son could be spouting awesomeness, although I can pretty much assure you it’ll be me most of the time. Julie has only gone so far as to join Facebook to play bejeweled.

She loves that damn game.

TWEET AWAY TWEETERS.

I dragged my feet on signing up for a HTN Twitter account. I seeeeriously dragged my feet. I don’t really have an excuse, but I’m now spending the majority of my time before bed finding other people to call upon once the twinvasion happens. And “holy macadamia nut farmers” there are a ton of people out there on twitter who talk about twins.

I’m not talking about the people who talk about celebrities and their twins, who are automatically better than your twins or mine, I’m talking about real frickin’ people twinttering! TWINTTERING! ZING!

One such example is today’s Hell Yeah Internet discovery: http://www.dadsguidetotwins.com/

I found the site through a tweet mentioning twins and I’ve scoured this guys pages. One such page that is just BALLS ON exactly what I needed is: http://www.dadsguidetotwins.com/how-to-measure-the-mounds-of-twin-advice/

This is a guide to sifting through all of the advice people throw at you about having twins. It might not be NEW information, but it’s concise, and I NEED CONCISE RIGHT NOW PEOPLES!

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I will admit to almost anything.
I watch reality television. I cry during Adam Sandler movies. I wear baseball jersies during football season and football jersies during baseball season. I’m a die hard Chicago Cubs fan, and we suck every frickin’ year. I’m a die hard Chicago Bears fan and we manage to suck pretty consistently as well. I read alot in the bathroom, and usually only stop once my legs have fallen asleep. I sleep with a purple pillow I call “purple pillow” and it smells like vitamins because I sweat into it the vitamins I mix at work.

I am addicted to lists.

photo credit: nalilo

Lists for what to do today, what to bring today, what to pack for tomorrow, what to write other lists about, etc.

So, while digging for more lists to create in my fat head, I stumbled upon a site that I have now bookmarked called: TwinMamaLoves.com.

More specifically, I found a post that SCREAMS my name and often times it screams it with a quite erotic undertone:

“JOEL! READ ME OVER AND OVER.”

This particular post is entitled: What Gear to Buy For Twins. I have read it about 78 times and kept it bookmarked, not on the homepage, but on this post.

So, if you are like me and you like your life listed out in “WHAT CAN I DO FIRST” fashion, go check out TwinMamaLoves.com’s post called Twin Tuesday: What Gear to Buy For Twins.