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You Can Do It!
10 Secrets to Surviving the First Year with Twins
By Elizabeth Lyons
(Perigee, 2001) by Lisa Earle McLeod. McLeod reinforces the importance of putting ourselves at or near the top of our priority lists instead of the grime behind the kitchen sink or the toys strewn across the family room. Says McLeod, "You are not trying to create a perfect childhood, you're trying to create a functioning adult." Your time would be better spent singing nursery rhymes than scrubbing walls.
Whenever you have a spare second during the morning, pop the ingredients in and turn it on. By dinnertime (whether at 6 p.m. or midnight), you have a fabulous meal cooked and the house smells fantastic. If, by some small chance, one of the babies needs you the second you dish up your plate, just put your meal back in the old crock pot and it'll be warm whenever you're ready – no more cold dinners! I'm thinking of giving my crock pot a name this year and looking at it more like my own personal food butler.
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