Joe Beernink

I don’t take a lot of time off work for personal downtime. I’m always saving it up for a rainy day, or some trip I’ve dreamt of taking, or just to...

We watched a pretty good movie last night, called The End of the Spear, about missionaries in Ecuador during the 1950’s and 1960s, and the tribe of warriors they worked with....

Okay, you’ve got all the big ticket items. You’ve made all the arrangements, the babies have been born (I’ll cover that in another entry), and now you’re coming home. What the...

This week saw some rather momentous firsts. Our new nanny, Courtney, started this week, and after a few hours of guidance with Lisa, we took the training wheels off and Lisa...

Okay, here are the things we found we couldn’t live without 1. DoubleBlessings EZ-2-Nurse Twins Nursing Pillow. http://www.doubleblessings.com/Detail.bok?no=280 2. Britax Companion Carseat. It’s expensive, but it’s the best rated one we...

My sister asked me to put together a Twins for Dummies, er… Twins for Daddies.. post to help out some of her friends who are about to experience the joy of...

We’ve kind of settled into a rhythm these last few weeks. The babies generally sleep through the nights, with maybe one wakeup each after 4:00 AM. Last night we had a...

Last night, for the first time, both babies slept through the night! Reece and I had a little argument before he went to sleep about how Daddy wasn’t carrying him around...

If you have read the Purple is a Fruit blog at all, you know that a really fun game to play with kids is to hang them upside down by their...