'Yes, my hands are full! Sometimes with glasses of wine': Mummy blogger attaches hilarious sign to her twins after growing fed up with strangers approaching her to make small talk about them

  • Annie Nolan, 26, is mum to two-year-old twin girls, Delphine and Cheska
  • The blogger is constantly asked the same questions about her kids
  • Annie, from Melbourne, decided to write the answers to her FAQs on signs 
  • She uploaded a snap of her girls holding them in their prams to Facebook
  • The post has been viewed more than two million times in two days 

Young mum Annie Nolan spends a lot of her time answering the questions of strangers about her two-year-old twin girl Delphine and Cheska- and has come up with a very cheeky way to fend off the inquiries.

The 26-year-old blogger, who is bombarded with questions that range from the ordinary to the inappropriate on a daily basis, decided to write the answers to her 'frequently asked questions' on signs for her twin girls to hold.

Annie, who is also mum to four-year-old Malachy, took a snap of her two girls in their prams holding the signs and uploaded them to her blog's Facebook page- and couldn't have imagined the overwhelming response she would get from parents of twins all around the world.

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26-year-old mum Annie Nolan came up with a cheeky way to pre-empt the questions that she is asked on a daily basis about her twin daughters Cheska and Delphine 

26-year-old mum Annie Nolan came up with a cheeky way to pre-empt the questions that she is asked on a daily basis about her twin daughters Cheska and Delphine 

'Yes, they are mine. Yes, they are twins. Yes, both girls. No, not identical. Yes, I know they look alike though. Yes, I'm sure they aren't identical,' reads one of the signs.

'Conceived by f***ing. Born via c-section. You have twins in your family? *great*. They don't run in my family...until now. Yes, my hands are full (sometimes with two glasses of wine just to get through). Yes, triplets would be harder,' the other sign reads.

'I really wanted to leave these signs on the pram today. As a twin mum, you get asked a series of questions/hear a series of statements everytime you go out,' Annie wrote in the post.

'I know most people are coming from a great place and are just curious however many can be quite intrusive and after a while it's just plain exhausting,' she wrote.

'And since I was heading into the city, I knew the questions would be coming thick and fast... but I chickened out on the train and took them off! P.S- it is a joke people.'

Annie, who runs the blog Uncanny Annie, said that she came up with idea for the signs after spending the previous evening with some other 'twin mums' and joking about the amount of times they were asked the exact same questions.

Annie runs the blog Uncanny Annie and is a stay-at-home mum, looking after her son and her twins 

Annie runs the blog Uncanny Annie and is a stay-at-home mum, looking after her son Malachy, 4, and her two-year-old twins Cheska and Delphine

Annie said that she is stopped on a daily basis by strangers wanting to ask questions about her daughters

Annie said that she is stopped on a daily basis by strangers wanting to ask questions about her daughters

The 26-year-old said her children are her favourite topic of conversation

The 26-year-old said her children are her favourite topic of conversation

'My kids are honestly my favourite topic of conversation, my friends must be so sick of me talking about them, so the signs weren't me saying that I don't want to talk to people about my kids, I love it,' Annie told Daily Mail Australia. 

'I wrote the questions just as a tongue-in-cheek way to list the most common ones I get, you can almost predict the ones that people will ask- although sometimes people are way too cheeky in what they think they should ask,' she said.

'90 per cent of the time people who stop me are just lovely and genuinely want to talk to me about my children, but sometimes I feel like a broken record.'

The 26-year-old is a stay-at-home mum and is vision impaired, which means that she spends a large portion of the day walking to and from public transport, and finds it hard to be constantly stopped when she is trying to keep to a routine.

'I'm so happy to talk but I don't think people understand that it's tiring being a mum of twins, or just multiple kids. We're fighting the poo-feed-sleep-bath schedule and stopping to talk all the time interrupts the strict routine that we hold to just to keep our world turning,' Annie said.

Annie and her partner, AFL player Liam Picken, have three children together

Annie and her partner, AFL player Liam Picken, have three children together

Mother of three pictured with her partner, Liam Picken, their twin girls Delphine and Cheska and son Malachy

The mum-of-three said that she and her partner, Liam Picken, haven't ruled out having more kids

'Delphi and Cheska leaving the house for the first time since their 15 mins of Facebook fame' Annie posted

'Delphi and Cheska leaving the house for the first time since their 15 mins of Facebook fame' Annie posted

'Sometimes I get asked the most intrusive and inappropriate questions, everything from whether they are 'natural' babies to whether I every considered aborting them,' she said.

'One woman even told me that if I had aborted one of the twins I would have had an easier pregnancy, and that because they were born prematurely they would have learning difficulties when they're older.'

The post on her blog's Facebook page has received more than two million views in two days, which Annie said shocked her.

'I genuinely did not think it would be so popular, I just posted it as a joke for my four friends. I'm just little old Annie from Melbourne,' she said.

'I do think that it's in part because 'twin parents' can relate. Most of the feedback I got was from parents saying "this is so true, this is exactly my life and the questions I get asked",' Annie said.

'90 per cent of the time people who stop me are just lovely and genuinely want to talk to me about my children, but sometimes I feel like a broken record,' Annie said

Annie's post about the questions has received more than two million views in two days

Annie's post about the questions has received more than two million views in two days

The blogger said that she is obsessed with dressing up her children and loves buying them clothes to wear

The blogger said that she is obsessed with dressing up her children and loves buying them clothes to wear

'I'm so glad that people responded to it because it was posted for a laugh and just to show the funny questions we face every day.'

The 26-year-old said that there had been a few negative comments, which she hadn't been expecting. 

'A few people have posted saying that I should be grateful that I have twins, or that what I was experiencing was a first world problem,' Annie said.

'Other people are absolutely facing really awful situations and issues that are of course much graver than answering questions each day, but that doesn't lessen the experience of people who have twins and what we go through every day,' she said.

'I'll be up at the supermarket and get asked questions looking awful with crusty weetbix in my hair with my twins trying to bite and pull things off shelves, and I suppose I'm trying to say that we don’t go through nothing,' she said.

'I do think that it's in part because 'twin parents' can relate. Most of the feedback I got was from parents saying "this is so true, this is exactly my life and the questions I get asked",' Annie said

'I do think that it's in part because 'twin parents' can relate. Most of the feedback I got was from parents saying "this is so true, this is exactly my life and the questions I get asked",' Annie said

Delphine and Cheska were born at 37 weeks, over three weeks premature

Delphine and Cheska were born at 37 weeks, over three weeks premature

'I'm so glad that people responded to it because it was posted for a laugh and just to show the funny questions we face every day,' Annie said 

'I'm so glad that people responded to it because it was posted for a laugh and just to show the funny questions we face every day,' Annie said 

'I went onto the Multiple Birth Association website which said that mothers of 'multiples' are twice as likely to be at risk of post-natal depression and have a 50 per cent higher risk of divorce before their children enter school.' 

Despite her frustrations with the questions, the mum-of-three said that she and her partner, Liam Picken, who plays AFL for the Western Bulldogs, haven't ruled out having more kids.

'People often presume that now we have three we'e done with kids but who know?' Annie said. 

'However Malachy was a twin, although we lost his twin at ten weeks. So that along with Delphine and Cheska means that if I get pregnant again we're risking having five kids,' she said.

'That's probably exceeding my capacities a bit, so I'm on so much contraception at the moment.'  

Annie runs the website and Instagram account for her blog Uncanny Annie

Annie runs the website and Instagram account for her blog Uncanny Annie

Annie said that she came up with idea for the signs after spending the previous evening with some other 'twin mums' and joking about the amount of times they were asked the exact same questions

Annie said that she came up with idea for the signs after spending the previous evening with some other 'twin mums' and joking about the amount of times they were asked the exact same questions


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