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Post by epeanymous on Feb 8, 2023 0:13:42 GMT
My twins (one of them is in my avatar seven years ago) just turned thirteen today. It's unnerving! (Also I now have three teenaged boys in the house and I literally cannot keep up with the food, send snacks). http://instagram.com/p/CoXqLIvJRaU |
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Post by maryland on Feb 8, 2023 0:19:32 GMT
They are adorable! Happy Birthday!
I know what you mean, my 3 girls could eat so much and yet were still so thin! They are all in college/grad school/working now. I couldn't imagine our grocery bills if they all still lived at home, haha!
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Post by busy on Feb 8, 2023 0:38:01 GMT
Happy birthday to them!!
I can't imagine feeding three teenage boys at the same time 🤯
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Post by Lexica on Feb 8, 2023 0:47:11 GMT
Ack! You have my sympathy. I can't imagine twin boys!
I only had one and that was tough! Not really the food consumption, but the attitude of "I'm a teenager now, so you had better give me freedom and respect" and he wasn't happy that I told him respect had to be earned. It shouldn't have been a surprise to him, it had always been that way since he was born. You will be treated in direct correlation with how you act. Act mature and get more privileges. The calendar and age had nothing to do with it as far as I was concerned.
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Post by AussieMeg on Feb 8, 2023 0:49:19 GMT
They're gorgeous! ❤️ the curls!
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Post by ~summer~ on Feb 8, 2023 0:53:45 GMT
Yay happy birthday to them!
I had 3 boys within 3 years and the teenage years were nothing short of crazy and fun!!
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Post by revirdsuba99 on Feb 8, 2023 0:55:46 GMT
Cute on the way to handsome!! Too soon ....
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Post by lucyg on Feb 8, 2023 1:42:32 GMT
They are way cute! My DIL has 12 and 14yo boys, and my grandson, who lives with them now, will be 14 next month. Feeding them is always an adventure.
Also: I just had a great-niece born this morning and they named her Djuna. Apparently there is an author of that name? Do tell.
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Post by Basket1lady on Feb 8, 2023 1:56:18 GMT
They are adorable! I could not believe how much less food I bought after the kids went off to college. Not just my kids, but their friends too!
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Post by crazy4scraps on Feb 8, 2023 2:15:33 GMT
I know, right? My kid will be a teenager this year too. How did that even happen?   |
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Post by quietgirl on Feb 8, 2023 2:27:46 GMT
They are really cute! I have twin boys, they're 23.
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Post by epeanymous on Feb 8, 2023 2:47:36 GMT
They are way cute! My DIL has 12 and 14yo boys, and my grandson, who lives with them now, will be 14 next month. Feeding them is always an adventure. Also: I just had a great-niece born this morning and they named her Djuna. Apparently there is an author of that name? Do tell. Yes! It's a journalist/novelist (Djuna Barnes) from the early 20th century -- that is who my handle on Insta honors. |
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Post by kate on Feb 8, 2023 3:12:48 GMT
They're gorgeous! Happy bday to them!
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Post by malibou on Feb 8, 2023 8:48:02 GMT
Happy Birthday boys!
They are cuties for sure.
Lol, now you know how the phrase eating us out of house and home came about. There was a family that lived on our street when I was little that had 11 boys! Many of them were Irish twins and none were more than 18 months apart. I remember my mom talking about what their grocery shopping must have looked like.
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Post by LavenderLayoutLady on Feb 8, 2023 8:48:42 GMT
Happy birthday to them!
And congratulations mom! You're doing good!😁
And yes, yes, yes on the bottomless pit of teenage hunger. Produce is a help yourself snack whenever you want it snack in our house (as opposed to snacking on cake or chips, which is more a treat), and I'm seriously refilling the fruit bowl every other day.
How do you eat two pounds of grapes, a large bunch of bananas, a three pound bag of apples, a pineapple, a baby watermelon, and a five pound bag of mandarins in a day and a half?! There's a few kids, but still!😁
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Post by anniebeth24 on Feb 8, 2023 12:37:24 GMT
LavenderLayoutLady Years ago, our house had the policy that "fruit was free" and kids didn't need to ask permission to grab it. DH still says, "Fruit's free!" every time he grabs a piece. Happy birthday to the twins! 🎂
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Post by janeinbama on Feb 8, 2023 18:07:23 GMT
They are adorable, I would imagine COSTCO and Sam's Club are regular stops for you!
Happy Birthday!
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Post by cynthia1218 on Feb 8, 2023 19:28:04 GMT
i knew a family of 4 boys - two twins. but they were all teenagers at the same time. The mom commented that she had to go back to work full time just to pay for the grocery bill and the car insurance for the one "teenager" car the boys all shared for their driving.
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Post by luckyjune on Feb 8, 2023 19:46:27 GMT
Happy birthday to them!!!
We had our twins (currently 331 months old...hahahahahaha) and then 22 months later, we had our youngest. We were totally in the three-teens zone. There is a reason those years were a blur!
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Post by The Birdhouse Lady on Feb 8, 2023 20:33:44 GMT
They are as cute as can be! Love the curls!!! Wait.... I think I hear them....they are hungry!!!
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Post by Patter on Feb 8, 2023 20:34:42 GMT
So cute. Happy Birthday to them! I will just say enjoy because I miss my teenage triplet girls.  Love them so much but miss the time we were together under one roof. |
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Post by SallyPA on Feb 9, 2023 2:10:54 GMT
Happy birthday! And good luck feeding them 😁
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Post by peano on Feb 9, 2023 3:45:57 GMT
Happy 13th to your teen cuties!
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Post by mamapeaah on Feb 9, 2023 14:04:02 GMT
I feel you, groceries are a huge part of my budget and I have had to add filling things like whole wheat bread so they can make sandwiches sometimes.
The Costco membership helps with the food situation but does my budget no favors
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Post by breetheflea on Feb 9, 2023 14:28:19 GMT
I have three teenagers (18,16, and 13) and a 9 year old.
We bought this microwaveable popcorn bowl so we can make an endless supply of popcorn in the microwave for the bottomless pits. It gets used several times a day...
Sometimes I'll go to bed [at a reasonable time] but the kids are still up, and I swear when I get up in the morning they have eaten everything in the kitchen except the fixtures.
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Love them so much but miss the time we were together under one roof. 
