2017 Review This year has been a doozy. It has been a year of change, a year of new activities, and a year of hard work, both at home and on the blog. With that, I couldn't end the year without a 2017 review of both. Let's start the 2017 review with the blog! 2017 Review of Shann Eva's Blog I've been writing and blogging since the twins were in the NICU, and I've gone … [Read more...]
Birthdays and Celebrations Times Two
*This post contains my Amazon Affiliate links. Please see Disclosure Policy for more information. Birthdays This week revolved around planning celebrations, shopping for presents, wrapping said presents, getting very little sleep, and actually celebrating. That's right. You guessed it. Birthdays. 2 birthdays to be exact. If you missed my post yesterday, the twins turned 5! … [Read more...]
5-year-old Twins: May the 4th be with Me
5-year-old Twins I never imagined I would have 5-year-old twins. Or twins at all, for that matter. I will never forget that day in my doctor's office when she told me. "Do you see that?" she asked. "Yes. Is that the heartbeat?" "Yes. And do you see that?" she asked. "Um. Isn't that the heartbeat?" "Yes, but it's the second heartbeat. It's twins!" she said … [Read more...]
Dr. Seuss Party, NICUversary #4
Dr. Seuss Party A Dr. Seuss Party theme is pretty popular for twin birthdays. Thing 1 and Thing 2 are twins after all! Since we don't usually have a traditional party around their actual birthday, we went with a Dr. Seuss Party theme for their 4th NICUversary. This past August 1st and 3rd marks the fourth year that they've been out of the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit at our … [Read more...]
Road trip and Bay Beach
Now that I've caught up on some sleep, I'd like to tell you about our trip we took this last week. We bought tickets for "A Day Out with Thomas," for early morning Thursday, and since it's a two-hour drive, we decided to drive up the day before and stay overnight. We also tacked on an extra day after to make it into a "mini" vacation before my oldest started summer … [Read more...]