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 ...

After reading a forum posting about a lady asking for the necessary objects needed to prepare for the arrival of her baby, I began to think back about the things I couldn’t do without: or rather, things that my baby’s couldn’t have done without.There was the usual of course, pajamas, bottles, pacifier selection and diapers. But then I listed IT, the one thing that nobody should be without, the bouncy-seat. You can stick your baby in a bouncy-seat almost from the time your bundle of joy arrives. It’s not like the variety that we had when I was little. The newer ones recline all the way back and have inserts that can be used to support even the tiniest newborn. My tiny triplet preemies adored their seats and even used them up until recently. There is one teensy little problem with using them, though. They foster of love of all things that go “Boingy.” From the very beginning we place our children in these seats that are set to bouncing by the very tiniest movement of our infants. In the ...