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Janna Mauldin Heiner

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Mother of six (wow, it’s still weird to say that), ranging from grown and flown to *very* unexpected twin babies; five boys and one girl altogether. Married a wonderful 22 years. A sort of middle-of-the-road mother, the kind who nursed four babies for a year but feels almost no guilt that the twins are growing up on formula; who has a Diaper Genie but also made a mei tai that is an original cohesion of several different carrier designs; who had the first bike trailer-stroller in town 20 years ago but has no interest in video baby monitors this time around (nor bottle warmers, nor electronics on the pack-n-plays…)

Interests

I own a red kayak, sing mezzo-soprano, am secondary certified in English and Spanish, am fascinated by insects and amphibians and a lot of other things, have been active in mail art at times and the LDS church always, can’t sew in the traditional sense but am great at construction with fabric, won NaNoWriMo both years I entered, have done print and radio news and written a newspaper column, hate math, suck at housekeeping and organization (though after 22 years I fake it pretty well), and read. A lot.

Location

Hayden ID

Books

You’re kidding, right? Can I list genres? Maybe a reverse list is best. I don’t read romances, mysteries, or detective novels. I do read almost everything else.

Movies

Maybe I should amend my bio to say I really suck at listing favorites…I tend to like in movies what I hate in books. That is to say, I love romantic comedies. Also stories about families and movies that have good things to say, like _Secondhand Lions_ or _Life is Beautiful_ or _Wit_ or _Tortilla Soup._ I like Emma Thompsen, Hector Alizondo, and Anthony Hopkins. And Johnny Depp, but not in the way most women do. He’s just one of the few young actors who really understands acting and is superbly skilled at it.

Music

Nothing too loud, dischordant or hard. I grew up on classical and opera, I came of age in the 80s, I had older siblings, we owned guitars, and I love close vocal harmony.

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  • Janna Mauldin Heiner and Karen Yother are now friends   8 months, 2 weeks ago

  • Janna Mauldin Heiner wrote on the wire of the group Get out!   9 months, 2 weeks ago

    And now, just for fun, I’ve separated my shoulder. Life just gets more and more interesting…

  • Janna Mauldin Heiner wrote on the wire of the group Get out!   9 months, 3 weeks ago

    Tammy, BTW, when we’re not sick I’m generally at the Kroc during Toddler Time, but I can’t handle both boys in the water so they’re in the Play Care while I spend a few minutes in the hot tub after my workout. I might try to get my older son to come sometime; he

  • Janna Mauldin Heiner wrote on the wire of the group Get out!   9 months, 3 weeks ago

    I think we are FINALLY almost over our colds here. We’ve been dealing with sickness for 2 1/2 weeks now. It hit just as Grandma came to town for a week–first Jesse, then Jonathan, then a day of flu symptoms for Daddy (thankfully that passed easily), then a cold for me which is a rarity.

  • Janna Mauldin Heiner wrote on the wire of the group Get out!   10 months, 1 week ago

    Okay…sorry I’ve been kind of AWOL here. I’m going through an exhausted mom-of-twins stage. The elder started sleeping through the night, which was great, except surprisingly, I think I was more rested when I was getting up predictably at about 3:30 for twenty minutes than I am now that I’m waking up off

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  • Wo, did we have a morning around here. Miss Anna got Jesse out of bed; it didn’t even occur to me that he hadn’t been changed because that’s so automatic for me (get them up, change their pants). Eldest-son-at-home needed his truck from the parking lot where it got locked in last night while he was at a movie with a friend, and his homework from said friend’s car; Husband off to work unexpectedly early; no milk in the fridge. Things just got rolling and Jesse never got changed. He was in his bouncy seat when the overflow occurred. He was DRENCHED. Shirt to the armpits, pants to the hem, bouncy seat…thank heaven nothing dripped on the carpet because it was wet enough to. So, right at feeding time, baths for both boys (might as well get the other one clean too), find clothes for them, make the bottles and feed them both at once…

  • They’re almost four months. From what I’ve seen on various baby boards, that’s a tough stage; great timing for all my help returning to school, hey? One of the boys sleeps through, the other can’t self-soothe any more because he’s a fat, cozy, sleepy sort of baby who always drifts off while eating (or cuddling, and sometimes while playing…)

    You and I have met, sometime, somewhere…

  • When people ask my husband and I if it is hard having twins, we always reply that we are lucky enough to not know the difference.

    The problem for you is that you’ve already mastered mothering your babies one at a time (and I can’t imagine that was simple) and now you have to be broken in to the twin routine. It can’t be easy, but I am sure you will be a pro in no time.

    As for the advice in the twin books about sleeping when the babies sleep, by the time I could make that work the boys were sleeping through the night.

    How old are your twins?

  • Everyone’s gotta test the system…