People ALWAYS are forever asking me, "How did you tell your family you were having triplets?"
I always WANT to say, "How did YOU tell your family you were having a baby?"
Same basic idea, really it is, promise. You do what you have to do. Now-a-days, it's a gender reveal party, or picture, or social post, typically.
Here is a silly triplet joke that I ran across years ago on this very subject.
I found it first on a forum called, “The Triplet Connection.” I bet you might get a good laugh!
A wealthy man was having an affair with an Italian woman for several years.
One night, during one of their rendezvous, she confided in him that she was pregnant.
Not wanting to ruin his reputation or his marriage, he said that he would pay her a large sum of money if she would go to Italy to secretly have the child.
If she stayed in Italy to raise the child, he would also provide child support until the child turned 18.
She agreed, but asked how he would know when the baby was born.
To keep it discreet, he told her simply to mail him a postcard and write “Spaghetti” on the back.
He would then arrange for child support payments to begin.
One day, about eight months later, he came home to his confused wife.
“Honey,” she said, “You received a very strange postcard today.”
“Oh, just give it to me and I’ll explain it,” he said.
The wife obeyed, and watched as her husband read the card, turned white, and fainted.
On the card was written, “Spaghetti, spaghetti, spaghetti. Two with meatballs, one without.”
Corny, yet kinda cute in a silly sort of way, I suppose.
I am so glad that my husband didn’t pass out when I broke the triplet news!
Basically, the poor man innocently came home for lunch that day in September.
We had lost a child the December before, and neither of us truly thought that I could have another one either way.
He knew that today was the day of the ultrasound to see if we had any viable heartbeat...or not...we didn't expect them to see one at all, truly we did not.
He was all sorts of ready for bad news, no joke. I just sat there & held up the ultrasound picture- they were folded at the time.
I let it unfold like a bunch of fake ID's in a wallet full, accordion style.
Very matter of factly, I told him that we weren't having one baby, we were having three.
He honestly thought I was joking, but I had the picture proof right there in black and white...times THREE to prove it, all neatly labeled with Baby "A," Baby "B," and Baby "C" typed in at the top via the machine that took the picture-proof.
My own Daddy didn't believe me AT ALL. I told him how I needed to start looking for a new car.
He was all, but you just bought one last year, what's wrong with it?
I told him I think that if we are going to go ANYWHERE as a family, we will probably need to invest in our own school bus, because he was about to have some more grandchildren.
Being that he was currently raising 3 of sister's at the time, it didn't quite register what it was I was trying to tell him, so it was show-n-tell time.
I then showed him my new baby book of ultrasound pics of his future grandbabies in tandem.
It was so funny, because if I hadn’t had the ultrasound pictures to prove it, nobody would have EVER believed me.
My eldest son quickly learned that he should NEVER have spent so many years asking Santa for a baby brother or sister.
Keep it up, buddy, and you end up with triplet sibs!
They had all honestly thought that I was joking with them. Now they know!
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