Every new mom has to adjust to life with her new baby.  Prior to birth, they read articles in magazines, excerpts from books, and get countless amounts of advice from their peers on how they will have to adjust their lives, from the unsuspecting and care-free days they enjoyed prior to giving birth, to the hectic and often blurry days to come once baby arrives.  None of this can quite prepare any mom for those first few outings with their new baby.  In fact, my triplets are fifteen months tomorrow, and I STILL haven’t quite figured it all out yet.  In the beginning, the NICU thought they were being nice and helpful by releasing only one of my tiny trio from the hospital.  This was meant to help me adjust to life with one newborn preemie before I was suddenly faced with life with three.  We later figured out that Kai was really sent home for bad behavior, lol.  He was forever screaming at their suitemate to BE QUIET in baby-language for example. He als...

We’ve covered the fact that our triplet stroller is unusually long and very super-huge, making public appearances very awkward. We decided to try an outing to the museum last summer while in New Orleans visiting family. Being babies, of course the need arises to have to change them at some point and of course it's never in a convenient and appropriate place. This time it was smack dab in the dividing line between the Ansel Adams exhibit and the Hurricane Katrina Photography exhibit. Now there was this very nice leather-looking chaise-lounge piece of furniture in the middle area that looked very inviting. But, being in a part of the museum that was as quiet as a church sanctuary due to the content and seriousness of the subject matter, I had decided that this was NOT the place to change our panties and britches.My aunt and I decided to demurely head for the nearest restroom. NOMA appears to have been built quite a long time ago, as the handicap allocations are mostly out of place (t...