Month: April 2023

Hey!! My name is Mary Hannah. Some call me M.H., some call me Hannah, and at times my husband likes to call me Betty (which is a story for another time) but I prefer to go by Mary Hannah. I live in a small town in Southeast Missouri. When I say small, I mean small!! A population size of less than 3,000 people but I love it. I have always lived in a small town. My husband (Matt) farms and I am currently a Family Nurse Practitioner. I could go on and on and tell you about my background but I want to get to the real reason everyone is here….

So why am I starting this blog?? Because I have two amazing identical twin babies and I want to share my journey with y’all. I want y’all to know the good and the bad with raising twins and my experience on getting them into this world (it was not an easy road). I want all moms to know I relate with them, in the good and the bad, and if I can help just one mom get through a difficult moment or share an exciting moment with another mom then I will feel like this is all worth it. Raising twins is not an easy task but completely worth it!! I love the life we have with out twins and could not imagine it any other way.

So let’s meet my babies… Before I introduce them individually. My babies are identical twin baby boys. They are currently 4 years old and full of personality. There personalities shine through in their pictures and you can definitely see how different they are at times (even though they look just alike). I can’t wait for y’all to meet them…

This is our sweet first born (only by 1 minute), Casen. He is full of personality but also super sweet. Obviously, this is a picture from his newborn pictures. He keeps my momma heart full and my legs busy.

This is our second born, Fisher. He has such a sweet heart but also no afraid to voice his opinion, especially when someone is messing with his brother.

I can’t wait for you all to hear more about these boys and share all about our journey to get to where we are now. These two have brought so much joy to our lives and watching them grown into the humans they are now is so so amazing! Please follow along on our journey with us!!

–Mary Hannah

My pregnancy started out super normal. I took an at home pregnancy test, it showed positive. I then surprised my husband with a note around our dog’s neck saying he was going to be a big brother (dogs are our life as you will soon begin to realize). Everything was going great!! I never had morning sickness, the worst in the beginning was how tired I was. There were days I didn’t want to get off the couch due to me being so tired. Then, on one September day, our first appointment to see the doctor for a check up and ultrasound. I was so excited. I couldn’t wait to see my sweet baby for the very fist time at 8 weeks pregnant. I knew it wasn’t going to be very exciting because at that point they don’t look much like a baby but it was still so exciting.

Minutes before going back to the ultrasound, my husband looks at me and says, “What are you going to do if she says you are having twins?” My response was simple, “I am going to cry.” My husband and I always joked, even before marriage (we were together 8 years prior to marriage), that we were going to have twins. Twins ran in my family and not any of my cousins had a set of twins yet, so we just knew it would be us. (Be careful what y’all manifest, lesson learned :)) Anyways, as I sat there laying on the ultrasound table, I had so much excitement. Our first baby was all I could think. She puts the cold jelly on my stomach and begins the ultrasound. She immediately looks at me and says, “Do you see what I see?” My nervous response was, “A baby?” She says, “There are two of them.” My husband starts nervously laughing as I lay on that exam table with tears in my eyes. To this day, I don’t know if those were tears of joy or complete terror. I was already afraid of being responsible for a single human and now I learned I will be responsible for two, at the same time.

We left that appointment so excited to tell everyone the news. I, of course, hurried and called my mom while Matt called his dad. Everyone was shocked by the news and at the time we did not process how big of a job this is going to be.

This is just the beginning of our story, the boys are now 4 years old and thriving!! I can’t wait to not only share the stories of our pregnancy but to also share the last 4 years and beyond.

— Mary Hannah