but... the flip side is that it's flat-out exhausting - and she has no natural concept of parental leadership, so there's always lots of work to be done there! i have no idea how you guys with more than one of these survive. i never say this when people ask - but that's the real reason we stopped at one!
My mother always said if I'd been twins, she'd have drowned us both.
Now that I have my own DD, I fully understand her feeling on that. There is never a moment of silence, and always some imaginary game going on that has to be explained to me in great detail -- usually in a cutesy, babyish tone of voice that drives her brother (and eventually, me) up the wall. But I can definitely see that she's just another me, so once in a while I look up in the general direction of where my mother's ghost is probably hanging out, and say, "yes, Mom. Stop laughing."
