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I’ve chosen to SKIP that, you’ve read enough about ME this month and I plan on a not so fun<\/em> series in September where it will fit in quite well.<\/div>\n
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Instead I am going to write about THE TWINS.<\/div>\n
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Surely, if you’ve been around here long enough you’ve seen reference to them.<\/div>\n
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First off, if you do not know who they are, they are my nieces.<\/div>\n
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THEY. ARE. NOT. MINE.<\/div>\n
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I will sometimes refer to them as mine, and I love them like they are mine but they are very much my sister Karen’s girls.<\/div>\n
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They will be 18 this July and that makes me want to cry tears of so many mixed emotions.<\/div>\n
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Brittany is graduating tonight (Friday, May 31st) and her twin sister is due to have a baby sometimes in the next 5 days (give or take).<\/div>\n
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It seems like yesterday when my sister was pregnant with them and we knew they were going to come any day.<\/div>\n
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She was full term and huge, after all she was carry over 12 pounds of baby.<\/div>\n
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We’d slept at her house a few nights already but the night it happened is one I VIVIDLY remember.<\/div>\n
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It was early in the morning, the sun wasn’t quite up yet, and my sister came into the living room where my mom and I were sleeping.<\/div>\n
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She stepped over me to say something to Mom and was on her way back into the bedroom.<\/div>\n
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She lifted her leg to step back over me and quickly put it down.<\/div>\n
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Her water broke.<\/div>\n
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ALMOST ON ME.<\/div>\n
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The rest of morning was a whirlwind, trying to wake my stepdad up and getting to the hospital quickly AND SAFELY.<\/div>\n
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They didn’t come right away and Little Miss Tiny Tot Mommy-to-be Alison was born 33.5 MINUTES (NOT SECONDS) after Prom Queen Brittany.<\/div>\n
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There isn’t a thing these girls could ever do to change my opinion of them.<\/div>\n
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I love them unconditionally.<\/div>\n
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I’m proud of the women they have become.<\/div>\n
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It scares me that MY own boys will be going through similar things before I can even blink.<\/div>\n
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Here are a few of the pictures I was able to find on my hard drive. I have hundreds of pictures of them in albums and boxes, they were born BACK IN THE DAY – you remember, before digital cameras were invented.<\/div>\n
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