Would you like to have multiples?

I have fraternal twin sons. They just turned 7 years old in February. When I went for my first ultrasound with them, I found out it was twins, and wasn't at all surprised. Twins run on both sides of my family, although all of the sets I know of are boy/girl twins. I just assumed that I would end up having twins at some point, and sure enough, I was right. I did not name them similarly, except for the fact that they both have long names that can be shortened. Jonathan David can be JD, Jon, JonJon, Jonathan, or even Nathan if he wishes. And Alexander James can be Alex, Alexander, AJ, Al or even Xander if he wishes. My 1/2 sister has a boy/girl set, and she gave them both a 2nd middle name "Lee". I didn't want to do that. As for dressing them the same, they were given some outfits from friends and family that were identical, and I would dress them the same for when those people would visit, and sometimes for walmart photos. But for the most part, I would dress them similarly. If one boy was wearing jeans and a t-shirt, so would the other. Now they're old enough to choose their own outfits every day, and on their own, they sometimes choose to wear the same things (because we still get identical clothing from family at birthdays and christmas). I did a lot of colour coding for the boys too (I still do lol). JonJon's colour is blue, and Alex's is green. If I could find similar outfits in their colours, I would go out of my way to get them. I did the same with their bottles and dishes.. that way I always knew which belonged to whom. I had 2 singletons before the twins, and so can compare the differences easily. As much as twins are a bit of a novelty, and fun to watch grow together, seeing who does what first (in my boys' cases they rotated back and forth at each milestone), the worst part was not having enough one on one time with them as babies. There just wasn't enough time for that. As they're getting older, having twins is becoming a bit of a pain in the school system too. They're in the same grade (not always the same class), and get all of the same assignments and trips, etc. So everything is double. It's tiring for me. Things like school projects, where you KNOW the parents are the ones who have to do most of the work... I have that double. I'm a single mom too (the ex husband has been mostly out of the picture for over 5 yrs now), so the onus is on me.

The simple and honest answer Modestah honey is a very resounding no. Each time my pregnancy was confirmed with each of my children the doctors were convinced I was carrying twins til it was proved otherwise. I knew I was expecting very quickly each time as I was so sick from day 1, I couldn't keep anything down at all and I 'showed' very quickly amongst other symptoms! I freaked out kind of when I thought I was having twins as I was a bit worried about how much harder it would be til they reached at least school age! I admire anyone who copes with multiple births as I don't know how well I would adjust to this myself! xxx