Linda’s prompt for SoCS this week…
Your prompt for #JusJoJan and Stream of Consciousness Saturday is: “oc.” Find a word that starts with “oc” and use it in your post. Bonus points if you start and end with your post with an “oc” word. Have fun!
Occasionally, I wonder what it would have been like to have been the mother of multiple birth babies, you know, twins.
The year I was married we had 3 sets born in our family and close friends. I have a set of cousins who are twins, and their sister gave birth to 2 sets as well.
After marriage, one of my cousin’s daughters fancied herself as a palmist, and read my palm, telling me I would have triplets!
Obviously that didn’t happen!
But is it double the fun? Or double trouble? It would be 100% a full time occupation!
There are so many hardships: the expense, the lack of time and arms, the tiredness, the juggling schedules… but the joys you get are also double, and if you were looking for a ready-made family, then getting two for one is a perfect deal!
Triplets or any more would just be being greedy, and as for that mum who had eight – Octomum – that’s just crazy… octuplets!
That’s it for me today!
Happy Saturday Peeps!
But I Smile Anyway... 
Jan 21, 2018 @ 11:42:02
Well done!
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Jan 21, 2018 @ 11:42:31
Lol thanks Michael!
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Jan 21, 2018 @ 11:41:28
Reblogged this on Die Erste Eslarner Zeitung – Aus und über Eslarn, sowie die bayerisch-tschechische Region!.
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Jan 21, 2018 @ 02:06:34
Oooh, nicely done. All the points to you, Ritu! 😀
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Jan 21, 2018 @ 08:09:42
Lol thanks Linda! 😀
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Jan 20, 2018 @ 23:54:43
I think having twins would have been nice… and in my case, nicer than never being able to have another child. I was an only for a long time (my only brother is almost 10 yrs younger than me), and I wish I could have spared my son the same childhood. It’s not as bad when you’re surrounded by houses and people, but… out in the country…
Though, yeah, it would be a seriously challenging couple of years. 😀
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Jan 21, 2018 @ 08:08:42
As I said Eden… pros and cons!!!
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Jan 21, 2018 @ 15:37:17
Always pros and cons, in every choice we make. 🙂
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Jan 21, 2018 @ 15:45:10
Absolutely 🙂
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Jan 21, 2018 @ 08:09:13
I can see why you would have loved for your son to have a sibling xxx
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Jan 20, 2018 @ 18:32:20
Sounds like a lot of work but also a lot of joy. 🙂
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Jan 20, 2018 @ 18:50:37
It would be Tonya!
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Jan 20, 2018 @ 17:43:39
We have no twins in my family, though my cousin is married to a twin: her twin brother has Down syndrome. Never realized that could happen. Nice kid, really, and she loves him to death.
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Jan 20, 2018 @ 17:45:05
Twins can be so different!
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Jan 20, 2018 @ 14:18:48
One of the weird flukes of adoption is that we could specify if we’d be open to multiples — not like that’s a choice when you get pregnant with twins or triplets! 😉
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Jan 20, 2018 @ 14:53:30
That is true!!!!
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Jan 20, 2018 @ 13:50:33
I think it would be very hard work, Sis! 🙂
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Jan 20, 2018 @ 14:12:49
Me too sis!!!! 👶🏽👶🏽👶🏽👶🏽👶🏽👶🏽👶🏽👶🏽
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Jan 20, 2018 @ 09:34:39
Ps, I lost twins so I often wonder 🌹🌹
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Jan 20, 2018 @ 10:04:51
Oh sis! (((Hugs))) xxxx
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Jan 20, 2018 @ 10:19:47
(((hugs))) back 😁🌹
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Jan 20, 2018 @ 09:33:54
Woohoo extra extra points Sis 💝❤️💝💓
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Jan 20, 2018 @ 10:04:37
😀😀😀
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Jan 20, 2018 @ 08:29:09
I would not have liked to have twins, Ritu. One baby at time is more than enough hard work.
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Jan 20, 2018 @ 08:35:34
That is true!
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Jan 20, 2018 @ 08:24:33
Having three kids spaced out is enough of a handful!! I’ve also realised I’m going to have to try and find a word starting and ending in oc now!! Saturday homework lol
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Jan 20, 2018 @ 08:36:12
Lol!!!! Kids are enough work… why are you finding more???
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Jan 20, 2018 @ 08:55:31
Hahaha, glutton for punishment!! 😉
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Jan 20, 2018 @ 08:55:59
😁
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Jan 20, 2018 @ 07:31:10
I had twins when the eldest daughter was two… a hectic but brilliant time. Only problem was that we didn’t know we were expecting them until they arrived. Had to sell all the lovely new-ish pram we’d had for eldest daughter to buy a second hand baby buggy and buy an extra cot – all in a hurry!!
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Jan 20, 2018 @ 07:50:25
Oh wow! That was definitely a surprise birth!!!!
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Jan 20, 2018 @ 11:14:54
Great fun though… until I had three teenagers with their angst!! Thankfully the grunting only lasted a couple of years. All are now lovely adults, dealing with their own children (I’m waiting for their teenage angst to appear with bated breath and a secret grin, Ritu). xx
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Jan 20, 2018 @ 11:20:42
That is exactly what my mum thinks ! She saysxits payback time lol!!!
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Jan 20, 2018 @ 07:15:55
Are we still doing oc or is it too late or too early? Ocay, let;s go. October was an ocay month. Ocularly speaking, I was surprised to find an octopus playing with the ocelot beside the octagonal occidental Ocala ocean-side spa which was a little too occult for me, being filled with octogenarians. Ocay, it occurs to me I have boo booed which I occasionally do. I’ll just hum “O Can you See…or “O Canada,,,” Ocay? .
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Jan 20, 2018 @ 07:49:45
Ha Ha!!!
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Jan 20, 2018 @ 07:09:53
Happy Saturday Ritu!
I fancy the idea of twins…giving birth just once, but getting twice the deal, though I’m not sure I want that, but then it’ll be nice either way.
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Jan 20, 2018 @ 07:49:25
True Esther… pros and cons! 👶🏽👶🏽
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Jan 20, 2018 @ 06:52:23
It’s fantastic and it’s crazy and it’s scary and it’s fun and a million other things. And that’s just before lunch. 😃
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Jan 20, 2018 @ 07:48:41
I can only imagine!
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Jan 20, 2018 @ 05:39:34
My mom is one of a twin so I always wanted to have a set as well. When they were younger it was almost impossible to tell them apart and she said they always had to dress alike. As they got older, their lifestyles added to the change in their appearance. Sadly, I did not have twins, nor did any of my sisters but one of our cousins did.
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Jan 20, 2018 @ 07:47:01
They look so cute… but oh my the work!
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Jan 20, 2018 @ 05:13:20
When I was young and newly married, I thought it would be efficient to have twins and then be done with birthing. After having one baby, I was thankful to have one at a time and a little more time to breathe.
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Jan 20, 2018 @ 07:46:29
I totally understand that sentiment Lol!
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