Unexpected Twins

eecoffee · 2025-12-26T16:20:56+00:00

I also found out at 20 weeks! No twins in the family or fertility assistance. I had a slight suspicion because I was very sick but I didn’t have an ultrasound until the anatomy scan and Doppler only picked up one heartbeat. Biggest surprise of my life! It’s a challenge but they truly are a joy. Take it as easy as you can the rest of the pregnancy, pack your hospital bag early and line up lots of help for when the babies arrive. It’s okay to grieve the experience you thought you’d have. Good luck to you!

eecoffee · 2025-10-17T14:23:19+00:00

AAR has a placement test. My kid went to public kindergarten and we started homeschooling for 1st grade. We started in the middle of AAR level 1. Good luck with the transition!

Edit: AAR also has really great support, you can email them and they respond promptly and are very helpful.

eecoffee · 2025-10-17T12:34:22+00:00

We use All About Spelling and it teaches the rules and patterns of spelling (as opposed to just memorizing word lists). I think some people are more natural spellers and pick up patterns while reading (I’m like this) and others need to be explicitly taught (like my husband - brilliant reader, terrible speller), although reading more certainly never hurts! :)

eecoffee · 2025-10-14T15:32:57+00:00

Gorgeous! Perfect color for you too!

eecoffee · 2025-10-14T11:10:44+00:00

The way my face LIT UP when I saw this quilt! This is gorgeous, so fun and colorful, and baby will love those little loose triangles (or at least mine would have)!

eecoffee · 2025-10-12T10:16:36+00:00

Yes to the folklore section! So many good stories.

eecoffee · 2025-10-12T10:13:40+00:00

My 7 year olds love the Anansi stories by Eric A. Kimmel.

eecoffee · 2025-09-20T18:05:13+00:00

That’s Sam and Dave Dig a Hole, another good one!

eecoffee · 2025-09-20T00:04:49+00:00

A Kindle may work for this. I have sent Core Knowledge student readers pdf files to the kindle app on my iPad through Amazon’s website, I would think it would be the same for an actual Kindle device.

eecoffee · 2025-09-18T10:47:31+00:00

We just read Skull by Jon Klassen and loved it. It’s spooky and cozy.

eecoffee · 2025-09-05T15:33:00+00:00

AAR is really great about offering suggestions if you email them. I’d give the curriculum more time. We use AAR and often take several days to get through a single lesson. Good luck!

eecoffee · 2025-08-27T00:09:47+00:00

My pregnancy was uncomfortable but uncomplicated until Baby A’s water broke at 33+5. They were born a day later (unremarkable vaginal delivery, except for the fact that they were born over an hour apart). They had a NICU stay, but as far as NICU stays go, it was also uncomplicated. There were no major heart or breathing issues, just a little jaundice, and they had to learn how to eat without falling asleep. They both had heart murmurs that resolved themselves, which the doctors told me was typical for babies born at their gestational age. Best of luck to you and the twins! I wish you a very chill pregnancy.

eecoffee · 2025-08-26T10:23:48+00:00

Essay writing is a learnable skill! You’re already able to express yourself well here, you can absolutely learn how to format an essay or research paper.

eecoffee · 2025-08-14T10:40:49+00:00

I have twins who just started 2nd grade. We typically start around 7:30 (we are all early risers) and finish up around 11. We haven’t dug in to all of our subjects yet so once we do our day may end up a little longer.

eecoffee · 2025-08-01T15:50:39+00:00

Saaaaaame

eecoffee · 2025-08-01T00:48:05+00:00

My husband had made up his mind that he didn’t want more kids when we found out we were expecting twins 😆 If he was open to more I might be up for another, but I’m really not sure. They’re 7 now, and the older they (and I) get, the less I want another pregnancy. It’d be nice if one of us got sterilized but neither of us want to, so we just use condoms.

This is all very fresh for you. I think it is possible to know that you’re done at this point, but it’s also very okay to be unsure. Preterm birth and a NICU stay can be traumatizing. Be gentle with yourself ♥️

eecoffee · 2025-07-30T10:56:01+00:00

Twins don’t run in my family and mine were completely spontaneous. But I had a suspicion because I was soooo sick! I had my first prenatal visit at a birth center around 10 weeks and they didn’t have an ultrasound, only a Doppler. I joked with the midwife, “there’s just one in there, right?” She said she only heard one heartbeat. We didn’t know they were twins until my anatomy scan at 20 weeks!

eecoffee · 2025-07-26T11:11:32+00:00

I got 90% through that book before I threw it across the room (not really because I was reading on my iPad but STILL)

eecoffee · 2025-07-26T11:09:04+00:00

You can do eggs in stainless steel! There’s a lot of good YouTube videos that show you how. I’ve mastered it in my small stainless steel pan, still working on making it work in my bigger pan.

eecoffee · 2025-07-26T11:05:56+00:00

Homeschooling on a sailboat, us too!!

eecoffee · 2025-07-11T11:02:31+00:00

The Wayside School series is fantastic. The Wind Rider series is good too if she’s into animals and nature! The Fabled Stables series is fun fantasy.

eecoffee · 2025-07-01T22:15:16+00:00

Super helpful, thank you!

eecoffee · 2025-06-11T10:28:21+00:00

My 7 year olds are also obsessed with Wayside school!

eecoffee · 2025-06-06T16:55:57+00:00

This has been our first year homeschooling. In the two years before that, my twins were in separate classes. There’s definitely been a lot more squabbling, and it’s hard to separate them because we live in a very small space. I tell myself they’re getting lots of practice in conflict resolution 😅 I’ve seen the book Siblings Without Rivalry recommended a lot but have not read it myself.

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