http://www.betwinned.com The One-Stop Internet Spot for Parents of Twins and Multiples Sun, 13 Apr 2008 22:19:11 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en My birthday comes at the end of January, and, now that I am a little over 40, it's also the time when I've decided to have my annual mammogram. I had my first one last year. This January I was very, very anxious about my health. I have been ... http://www.betwinned.com/archives/122 Photo from Amazon.com Review by Sandra Horning My five year old pulled The Cheese off the new book display at our library a few weeks ago and I've read it for bedtime every night since. Clearly, my five year old thinks it is great. The Cheese builds around ... http://www.betwinned.com/archives/121 Photo from Amazon.com Review by Sandra Horning Mokie and Bik is a lively tale of energetic young twins living on a docked boat. Their mother is an artist who is always out “arting” and their father works on a ship at sea, which means most of the ... http://www.betwinned.com/archives/120 Photo from Amazon.com Review by Sandra Horning Both my 4 and 8 year old sons were taken with Patience Wright, America’s First Sculptor and Revolutionary Spy. What child doesn’t love a good spy story? And what a story it is! Born to a Quaker family in 1725, Patience grew up in the American ... http://www.betwinned.com/archives/119 With no warning, I got some bad news a couple of weeks ago. It certainly wasn't earth-shattering or tragic news, mostly just yukky news that affects your ego. And maybe your stomach. For awhile. That kind of bad news. I was upset, naturally. I had planned to ... http://www.betwinned.com/archives/116 Oh, my gosh, this is a really sweet article, and I just had to share it. Alice, Doris and Gladys are British identical triplets who just celebrated their 80th birthday with a big barbecue. The article is a chatty tribute to the women, with a few terrific photos of the triplets as ... http://www.betwinned.com/archives/118 Every parent of twins or multiples knows that when you're out with your kids you get extra attention from (mostly) well-intentioned folks. Sometimes people say nice things, sometimes it's annoying, sometimes people even touch your kids. Most of the time, though, it's no big deal. But in our town we have ... http://www.betwinned.com/archives/117 I wrote a little poem today about how, before I had kids, I used to turn up my nose at the thought of ever letting my future children ride the merry-go-round at the mall. I love carousels and favor vintage ones, like the carousel in Griffith Park in Los Angeles, ... http://www.betwinned.com/archives/115 Photo from Amazon.com Review by Sandra Horning This week at the library a book with the title Toolbox Twins caught my eye. A new twin book? Yes and no. It is a book about twins, but not the same birth date kind of twins. Instead, Toolbox Twins refers to a small boy, ... http://www.betwinned.com/archives/114 When I started BeTwinned, I wanted it to be an online magazine with feature articles. Once I got it up and running and my post-journalism school life turned out a lot different than I had imagined (and I had absolutely no time to feed this creation with feature articles), ... http://www.betwinned.com/archives/113