An extraordinary revelation about twins is that no matter what, you’re outnumbered.
I’m not the only one that gets scared.
There have been numerous playground incidents when a bewildered child will run away in tears and utter confusion because they’ve just seen double!
Rarely do my boys meet their match, until last weekend.
Aunty Daisy and Uncle Pal came over for a visit just like they have in the past but this time, they brought along the entire brood.
The torrential rain earlier that day forced us in the tight confinements of the lounge room.
Two sets of (high energy) twin boys, a cute as a button five year old and four disheveled, exhausted parents.
How did we survive?
With dispersed lashings of red wine, of course! Well, for the mums, anyway.
Dads were on duty with children left to their own crazy devices.
But there was playful harmony.
“Wow!” peeping through the door, Aunty Daisy was just as surprised as I was.
“Can it actually be? A case of…happy chaos?!!!”
And she was right. Sure we had little monkeys climbing on the lounge, tipping boxes of Lego and scattered potato chips all over the floor but with no tears, shrieks or tantrums, I’ll take the crazy lickity split.
Then finally, when the rain relented and the sun came out to play, so did our little tribe.
Impromptu performances with sparklers that was almost accident free. (One slightly burnt little finger but nothing that a bandaid and big kisses couldn’t fix).
Four hours is nowhere near enough time but you make do with what you get and you cherish it for every single moment.
The odds of having identical twins is 3 in 1,000. What’s even slimmer is finding another twin family so special they’ve become part of your own.
And that my friends, is the amazing love and friendship blogging can bring.
How do you survive big get togethers? Is there happy chaos? More importantly, is there red wine?
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That is so sweet!
I feel for the little girl who was in the middle of that happy chaos that is two sets of twin boys. Eeek!
Great pics Grace
Leanne @ Deep Fried Fruit
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Aww that’s so sweet you’ve found another set of twins and you are so close to them. That is really special.
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Like I’ve always said Grace: How blessed are you?
I will always long for the twins I was never given!
Wonderful fun for you all! X
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It can be really hard some days to entertain kids indoors while it rains. I’m not sure how the teachers at my daughters day care are coping with all of the kids locked inside while the playground gets renovated – it has been 2 weeks!!
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Great pics – and I love it when kids on mass get together and have fun – that’s what it was like for us when we were kids and went to dinner parties – just become a marauding gang with the kids, whether we knew them or not…and it was fun!
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How gorgeous!! And yes what a cute little tribe! I’m sure they will all grow up to be great mates too! Have a great weekend Grace xxxx
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So much fabulous fun there, Grace! x
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There is always wine of some description Grace! What a gorgeous day. Can I just say those two boys of yours are going to be dead set lady killers when they grow up.
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Two sets of twin boys! Wow, lots of energy there…and fun!
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Gorgeous:) It is great when we remember to ignore the chaos and zero in on the happiness.
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What a beautiful post! Twinions squared. Whoa!!
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Love me some Daisy, and you! Would have love share some of the vino with you both. I can imagine the noise. It’s like one of my besties, she has 4 kids and I have 3, so when we catch up it’s crazy but happy chaos!! xx
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I’m so jealous , so happy you have found your twin tribe.
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Oh I love the happy chaos of a play date! It’s completely bonkers but there is so much good about the playing it’s all worth it. Especially if the Mumma’s get a moment to consume wine! Surviving can only be done through the wine and the chin wag that comes with it.
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What a lovely story Grace. Your boys are so lucky! Gorgeous pics too. There is always either red wine or coffee on hand here for play dates 🙂
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it’s wonderful seeing how blogging have brought you such a special friendship not just to yourself, but to your whole family 🙂 have a fab weekend!!
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I can just imagine the NOISE that would have been coming from your lounge room during that visit!! But it would have been good noise – happy children playing and delighting in each other’s company. There’s no better sound I reckon 🙂 Glad you guys had a great weekend in spite of the rain xx
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Lovely post, Grace, revealing mega-fun. Love the title too – that oxymoron speaks volumes!! 🙂
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What a beautiful post. I suppose Miss Daisy’s move means you’ll just have to come up and visit the Sunshine State more often! And then I might finally get to meet you too! 🙂 We can add my rambunctious puppy to the mix and spice things up a bit lol x
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Lovely post Grace! How awesome is it to have found a family that you can hang with! What a lovely friendship for you all!! Enjoy!
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This is such a sweet post Grace…blogging does bring so much into our lives these days. Lovely photos and two sets of lovely families! 🙂
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Happy Chaos is just the best, I love watching our little tribe run around playing together. What a lovely friendship to have 🙂
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How wonderful to have made a new family friend through this blogging gig huh!! And one with twins to boot!! Meant to be and bloody awesome. Gorgeous pics too Grace! Love myself a little happy chaos 😉 xo
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That’s what I love about blogging.. you can make some amazing friendships. I love Happy Chaos. This post made me happy just reading it. I hope you have a great weekend Grace. x
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Sounds like a fun and civilised (with the red wine) playdate Grace! My girls don’t have nearly enough playdates, I’m hoping once we get over the sickness bug that is lurking in our house that I can arrange more for the girls as they love to catch-up with their friends and create a bit of chaos. Its so nice when you find people that you click with 🙂 x
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Thankfully when we have our family dinners the kids are way outnumbered which makes it easy because there are so many doting Aunts & Uncles to help out and play. Dave and I look forward to family dinners because we know we’ll get an hour or two to sit and have a coffee or wine without having to wrangle children. It’s glorious!
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Delightful post as always, Grace! How wonderful that you have found your twin tribe!
I love happy chaos. Before we moved to Perth, I would often have my sisters three (similar age to my three) in the school holidays for days/nights at a time because the cousins lived a couple of hours a way so day trips were hard & my sister couldn’t get time off work. Occasionally my hubby would be away for work.
While I was completely exhausted the entire time it was great for the cousins to all play together. As I couldn’t fit all of them into our car, we did lots of walking and I was known as the mother duck with my six little ducklings around town. A few times, the local bus driver would spot me and go out of his way and route to pick us all up and drop us door to door. My nephew called it the rock star treatment. lol
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Two sets of twin, how awesome, and the same goes for red wine! x N
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This post makes me happy 🙂
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How cool to have another family with twin boys to hang out with. Bet their poor big sister feels like the odd one out a lot.
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Oh I think wine is essential for survival… I’m a white wine girl, but love a cocktail too, what a gorgeous story x love it
Life is sweeter with friends! Sure looks like everyone had fun.
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I hide in the kitchen when the chaos gets too much (with my wine, too!) and use the excuse that I’m just preparing the meat/salad/cake/coffee!
What a lovely family you have xx
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I love seeing pics of when you guys get together. How awesome god all those boys to have each other.
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I love it when your family just works. All is as it should be.
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Hanging out with friends who have children the same age was always fun. And yes, there was red wine involved! Was lovely to recall these happy times. Thanks for the prompt Grace. Apologies, I’m a day late on linking my post this week… motherly duties ♥
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It’s rainy days like today that I’m thankful for the Newcastle Museum, which has a toddler play area. We have a tiny lounge room! Wish the museum came with wine too 😉
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How great that you’ve all found awesome friends. I have a couple of friends who I love spending time with and the time just flies by because our kids get on so well together.
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Aw, Grace! I got goose-pimples reading this. I love, love, love it. So glad you two found each other x
Wow! What an amazing story of friendship Grace! I adore that third photo!
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