Something happens to a mom when they have multiples. I don’t remember exactly when it happened, or exactly how, but I suddenly found myself an organized mom.
Not that I wasn’t organized before I had the triplets, I had to have been, or was to a point.
It’s just that now I am super-organized. I have all these folders full of my maternity benefits and leave information, medical insurance and Medicaid benefit forms, middle school application process forms and school related information, and several that are full of nothing but health claim information and medical bills for me and the triplets.
I save everything related to medical bills and claims and copy those things that I cannot save.
I have even learned to micro-manage our health claim information, something I never dreamed would be necessary.
I now appear to know more about claim processing than the representatives with my insurance company who have to hear from me almost every Friday to ensure that my triplet’s health claims are processed correctly and don’t slip through those pesky cracks.
At some point, I learned how to schedule my day and that of my triplets, managing to keep them all on the same schedule that they originally came home from the hospital with.
I am one of those moms who can actually make appointments and lunch dates around that schedule, knowing exactly how my kids will be temperament-wise at a given moment.
Sometimes I wonder, how did it all come to this? When did this happen? My eldest wasn’t ever on any sort of schedule and it never occurred to me that I would find myself with one now!
I actually bought five sets of three multi-colored bottles each so that we could know which baby had what amount of formula.
We would know which bottle had which meds measured into them for each baby and I even went as far as to place them in a certain order in the fridge that would make dosage times a no-brainer.
How in the heck did I manage to come up with that one? I’ll never know because it’s something I just did and luckily, it worked!
Sometimes I look in that mirror and I don’t recognize that Mom even though it’s my own reflection.
People ask me how I do it, and I never know what to say. The truth is, I don’t really know. I just do whatever it is that I have to do to get my children safely through their day with my sanity in tact (or mostly!)
I have learned to let things go that I just cannot always get to like the dishes or the vacuuming.
Hopefully, I will remember to show my twelve-year old how to do some of these things…but I do forget.
I have had to learn that its ok to do things when I can and understand that sometimes things just have to go by the wayside.
I have had to learn not to care what other people think of me because of this. All I can do is sit back and enjoy this wonderful ride of a lifetime!
originally posted WEDNESDAY, MAY 23, 2007
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