We’re a little larger family. You could probably already tell that. Duh, right?
I’ve been thinking for awhile about having so many little ones and about how much easier it’s gotten. And the things I’ve learned along the way. And that I should share them. Because I would’ve given my right arm to learn some of these things, oh, you know, not the hard way. So here are a few. And I’ll update the list as new ones come to mind or I learn a new one, oh, you know, the hard way. Please feel free to add to my list in the comments or by emailing me and I’ll try to pull some of ‘em out and post ‘em for others.
If you have 2 little ones very close in age or are expecting a second little one you know there is a certain amount of uncertainty (read: hysteria) involved. I know I could’ve used some advice or even just people that were going through what I was going through at the same time. So, here we are. Hopefully you’ll find some encouragement, advice, or just a feeling of “huh, maybe I’m not such a freak for feeling this way, after all.”
If you have specific questions or just a vague “how do you do it?” please leave a comment or email me. Because contrary to popular belief (not my children’s or my husband’s, obviously), I don’t have endless patience or a knack for organization (can anyone really have either of those with 5 little ones?!). I just know I still need folks I can turn to. So here’s a forum where that can happen.
If you’ve already been there, please let us in on your wisdom – we could really use it! Or if you’re currently in the depths of diapers and sippy cups come join us – 2 sleep-deprived heads are better than one!
I’ll be linking up some of my 2 Under 2 posts and those How I Do What I Do posts, and maybe even some of those Understanding posts. I’ll also be linking as many of you Mom to Many-s here and we can all glean from each other.
By all means, come join us – you don’t have to be perfect – just nice!
Here are those HowIDoWhatIDo posts:
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- 2 under 2
- 2 under 2 - 2nd edition
- 2 under 2 - 3rd edition
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- 30 Meals and How I Menu Plan Backwards
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- A Christmas Gift From Me To You
- a couple of updates that i forgot (and a "how i potty train")
- A Girl's Best Friend (It Sure Ain't What You Think It Is)
- A School Room That Works
- Answering Questions - Round 1
- Attachment Parenting: Night Time Parenting Sick Children
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- Baby Gear
- Babywearing ~ Where were you for the first 3 kids?!
- birthdays, absences, and announcements
- Blogging ~ Decide Who You Are
- Blogging ~ Making Friends and Money
- Blogging ~ The Technical Side of Getting Set Up
- Blogging ~ What To Do and What Not To Do
- Bulk Shopping {A Tri-Moms Tuesday Post}
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- Cabin Fever?
- Chore Charts
- Chores
- Christmas Crafty ~ Tic-Tac-Toe
- Christmas Traditions And What Really Happened
- Cleaning With Little Ones
- Conquering Laundry
- Cooking With Littles
- Crawlers In Winter?
- Cutting Up Bananas for Babies
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- D. Easter Week with Little Ones - Looking for Something More
- Decorating The Tree With The Kiddos
- Dieting Tips, Tricks, and Questions Answered
- Dishing Dirt
- Drop The Training and Regret Less
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- Fear and Toddlers
- feedin' those young'ns
- Floaties For Littles
- Free Fun For All!
- Frugal Menu - The First 2 Weeks
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- Getting Ink Out
- Getting Ready For A Storm
- Got Gum?
- Grocery Shopping and Fridge Pics
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- Hair Cuts
- Having A 3 Year Old
- Healed
- HelpfulLinks
- Home Alone Again
- Homemade Frozen Pizza
- How Do I Do It?
- How I Became An Attachment Parenting Freako - The Nursing Edition
- How I Freezer Cook
- How I Prepare For The New School Year
- How I'm Teaching My Third Grader With A Newborn In The House
- How To Begin Homeschooling {Tri-Moms}
- How We Discipline
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- I'm Struggling
- in which i attempt to redeem myself from mom-failure of the year
- It Doesn't Have To Be This Way
- It's Never Easy
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- Kids: What Chores When
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- Lapbooking
- Larger Family {Holiday & Eating Out} Tips
- Laundry Day
- Lessons From The Group Home
- Limiting the Glut of Christmas
- Losing My Balance and Falling Flat On My Face
- Losing That Baby Weight
- love in reality...
- Lunchtime!!
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- Making Laundry Detergent
- May This Moment Last
- Meal Plan... Tuesday?
- Medicine Charts
- Morning Rush Hour
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- NapTime
- Nursing Toddlers
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- Obedience
- Our Daily Schedule (Roughly)
- Our Homeschool Room
- Our Laundry System
- Out-Smartin' The Little Buggers
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- Packing For 6
- practical tips
- Priorities
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- Routines {Tri-Moms}
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- Saturday Confessions on a Friday Night
- Settling Arguments - The Boss
- some answers and a few questions of my own
- some several-small-kid-raising tips
- Stomach Virus: Part 1
- Struggling With Big Family Worries?
- Surviving the Stomach Virus with lots of Kiddos
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- Teaching Toddlers
- The Chalkboard Wall Success
- The Co-Sleeping Edition Of My Attachment Parenting Freako-ness
- The Kids' Loft
- The Lazy Meal Plan For A Sick Mama
- Things You Really Need For A New Baby (aka: post as long as the title is)
- Three Year Old School Work
- Through the Looking Glass
- Toddler Tips - Cereal
- Toddler Tips - Take 2
- Toy Management - Take 2
- Toy Storage
- Tri-Moms Cope (or not!) When Hubby Works Late
- Tri-Moms Tuesdays
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- Why I HomeSchool So Soon
- Why I Night Parent
- Why I Wish My Baby Wouldn't Sleep Through The Night
- Why It's Not Really Cheating
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- You Think You Know
And here are some parenting-understanding-I-know-how-you-feel posts:
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- (sung to the tune of "here we go around the mulberry bush")
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- 12 weeks - Baby Update
- 15 months...
- 19 Months Today
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- 3 Weeks Post Partum
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- 7 months
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- 8 Weeks To Go
- 80 Degrees at 8 am
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- 9 Weeks Update
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- a couple of updates that i forgot (and a "how i potty train")
- A Day For The Books
- A Delayed Reader Finds His Words
- a few of the highlights
- a few of the things i've done in 3 weeks
- A Few Questions Answered
- a little lighter
- a long winter's nap
- a new link
- a quick glimpse...
- aahhh
- Above All
- Already
- and if you take him...
- And Really It's Good That He's So Darn Cute
- and then there were 3
- and then there's this
- And While We're Measuring My Coolness Factor
- Are Your Ears Strong Enough?
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- Baby 19 Months!
- Baby Name Game - Round 4
- Baby Names - Got Some?
- Babywearing ~ Where were you for the first 3 kids?!
- Back To Those Babies of Yours
- Blogs And Babies
- Brave or Stupid: You Decide
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- Celebrating A New Life!
- Christmas has been hard...
- Christmas Traditions And What Really Happened
- Confessin' That I Feel Like Crap
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- Dear Friends, About Those Babies Of Yours
- did ya miss me yesterday?
- Did You Know?
- Do You Cry?
- Don't Miss It
- don't miss it
- Drop The Training and Regret Less
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- Esophageal Foreign Body Removal
- expect less...
- Exposing the Ugliness of my Weary Heart
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- for fear you have the wrong idea about me
- for you to feel better about your own house
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- Gaining Perspective
- Getting The Perfect Picture
- go girl!
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- HAPPY HALLOWEEN!
- Having A 3 Year Old
- Healed
- hour 2, week 3
- How I Became An Attachment Parenting Freako - The Nursing Edition
- How We Discipline
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- i caved
- I Sat Idly By
- I'm A Monster
- I'M BACK, BABY!!
- I'm So Cool
- I'm Struggling
- In The Midst of Noticing
- in which i attempt to redeem myself from mom-failure of the year
- is there anything more labor intensive...
- It Doesn't Have To Be This Way
- it's my party and i'll cry if i want to
- It's Never Easy
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- joyful again
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- Kids: What Chores When
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- leave of absence
- Let The Eating Commence
- lettin' 'em be...
- live blogging my 2 1/2 year old
- Look Familiar?
- Losing My Balance and Falling Flat On My Face
- love in reality...
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- MaNornin'!
- May This Moment Last
- musical beds
- My How Things Have Changed
- My Side of the Story - His Hand Through The Storms
- My Side of the Story - On Our Way
- My Side of the Story - The Day Before
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- New Beginnings and Surprise Endings
- New Parents ~ For Your Encouragement
- no time
- Not A Show And Tell
- not for the faint of heart
- Not Me.
- note to self
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- Obedience
- Oh, There've Been Comments On Our Large(ish) Family
- OH. MY. GOODNESS.
- Onions and Tears
- our christmas photo
- Our Daily Schedule (Roughly)
- Overwhelmed
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- Parched and Weary
- pregnant?
- Priorities
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- Searched.. And Found
- seasons
- She Deserves Every Name She Gets Called
- Shhh...TOP!
- Sick Days
- Six of One, Half Dozen of the Other
- sleep
- slow blogging brought to you by...
- still picking up the pieces
- Struggling With Big Family Worries?
- Sweet Baby Boy!
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- the "belly" update - not for the squeamish!
- The Baby Name Game - Round 3
- The Baby Name Game Competition - Round 2
- The Baby Update And A Wish for You
- The Battles I've Won In the War They've Waged
- the christmas parade (and a commercial for ergo)
- The Co-Sleeping Edition Of My Attachment Parenting Freako-ness
- the good news...
- the good stuff
- The Grocery Store And Other Disasters
- The Milk-tastrophe
- The Mixed Feelings I Have About My Closet
- The Name Game - Installment 2
- the results
- The Things I Don't Do A "How I Do What I Do" Post On
- the things we say
- The Weekly Check-Ups
- There's Always Two Sides To Every Story
- this week: a study in incompetence
- tis the season...
- Today I Felt Like A Failure
- Today I've Found...
- Toddler Tips - Cereal
- Tonight I Ponder
- Too Many Kids and Wanting More
- Tri-Moms Cope (or not!) When Hubby Works Late
- Trust. On Several Levels.
- Truth In HomeSchooling
- Turning Corners
- Turning Their Hearts
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- Unlikely Teachers
- update
- Update - Week 7
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- We Have A Name Game Winner!
- we survived
- Welcome!!
- well, would ya look at the time
- What Can I Say?
- what's goin' on 'round here
- when i don't know him anymore
- when you're on first name basis with the poison control guy...
- when's the last time you...
- where i relapsed into a first-time mom
- Who Is This Kid?
- Why Good Girls Like Bad Boys
- Why I HomeSchool So Soon
- Why I Night Parent
- Why I Wish My Baby Wouldn't Sleep Through The Night
- Why, Hello There, Little Coffee Man, How Did You Get In?
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- yeah, so the other day...
- You Capture ~ Real Life
- You Know It's Gonna Be A Bad Day
- you know you haven't had enough sleep when...
- You Think You Know
How I feed my babies – I nurse. No, I’m still not a pro after all this time. I still have to look up what to do when I get clogged ducts and I need refreshers on what I can take for that current cold. Here’s where I look for that kind of stuff:
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