I needed to add this posting

I haven't blogged since last April. Since my babies started turning into toddlers, since things got a bit easier, since I fully recovered from the shock of having twins. My girls are 26 months now.

I wanted to add this posting for the twin moms who come across this blog in the midst of the first year, when things are so hard you feel desperate.

I'm writing this because my girls are upstairs playing in their room. They've made up a game in which one girl hides under the blanket fort pretending to be a dragon while the other walks by and is scared by the roar and runs away. They take turns being the dragon "Lena be dragon?" "Ya!". They are laughing, running, playing together.

I'm reminded of the woman on the street, who walked by with her seven year old twins when mine were only a year. She said, "At first you think you're unluckier than everyone else who had just one baby to care for, but over time you will realize that really, you're the lucky one". Today, my eyes fill with tears as I listen to my little girls playing by themselves upstairs, with each other. They have each other! We are lucky and they are lucky, to have one another.

You'll survive, and it gets so much better.