Preface

The names are just temporary! My lovely husband and darling sister Alyson were trying to come up with names other than Thing 1 & Thing 2, or Fric & Frac for our twins. They wanted names that would fully encompass everything I was feeling thus far. All of the changes that your body goes through in the beginning were new to me. Apparently I had been complaining a lot. I had not yet seen all the joys of pregnancy. I was still on the "other side". So, that is how they came up with Piss and Moan. That was almost 4 weeks ago. Today, even though I am still sicker than a dog sometimes, I am enjoying the changes. I am excited for their arrival. And come 15 years down the road, I will lovingly tell them of their nicknames when they were in utero. My dad always told me I came into this world "beat red and screaming my head off". And he also says not much has changed in 38 (uh, almost 39) years. I love that story, and I know when Piss and Moan hear their story, they will know it was said with much love, because they will know just how much I love them. I will always piss and moan about something; that is my nature. This is their story.