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This post is for Shanna who asked...

"Basically, how do you find the time to do it all? Your kids are always clean and coordinated and always off on some kind of adventure. Plus have the time to blog about it."

I wish you could have seen our house the day I got this comment! No way do I find time to do it all!

People give me WAY too much credit. Honestly, there are plenty of days when the kids stay in their jammies all day long(and so do I!!!). Keeping our house picked up??? That's a joke. I read somewhere that picking up after triplets is like blowing up a balloon with a hole in it and I'd have to agree! I try and pick up either right before naps or after the kids go down for bed, somedays its overwhelming (and pointless) though!

This is a picture of our playroom yesterday...the kids unpacked the suitcases for me while I was nursing London.





And here's Mickey Mouse...see him wedged up there between the wall and the tv? He was thrown into the fan and took a few spins around the room before finally landing here!




I have thank you notes from almost a year ago that I need to get written, we have birthday (even Christmas presents) that we still haven't gotten/sent. Birth announcements for London...we'll get those out someday! Our laundry is almost always behind and I can't remember the last time we made a "real" dinner (lately its been whatever we can throw together last minute).

Most days are kind of hectic around here...I just don't always blog about it, a little because its not what I want to remember down the road but mostly because we're having too much fun to let the negative slow us down! There's chaos, like last Thursday while we were packing to leave town and the triplets got into my brand new bottle of liquid makeup and spread it all over the kitchen and themselves. And then later that afternoon, took a bottle of nail polish and painted their own toenails all while drizzling nail polish over a pile of clothes I had laid out to sell on ebay (did I mention they were wearing ALL WHITE!!!).

And lots of times when I post about an outing, I leave some of the trying moments out. Like in our post last summer about our first trip to the library...I left out how the trio pulled the fire alarm while in the elevator. And in my post about our most recent trip to SeaWorld, I skipped over the fact that I had decided the trio didn't need naps which was fine until about 8pm when we were standing in line for a ride and the ride malfunctioned and shut down...after we had waited for over an hour! There were tears...lots of tears (mostly from Aunt Pammie!!! j/k), but at the end of the day, the good most definitely outweighed the bad and the positive moments were the ones I chose to dwell on.

Bottom line is, we have REALLY good kids who are well behaved and so much fun to be around...99% of the time! They're happy and we're happy! The fact that not that long ago, our arms were empty and we faced a possibility that we may never have children of our own combined with memories of them in the NICU, when we weren't sure they'd make it, always sit in the back of my mind and can quickly remind me how lucky we are and that I'd gladly take a dose of chaos and challenge over a quiet day without them.

Oh, and blogging...that usually gets done LATE at night when everyone is asleep...sometimes at 2 or 3am (when I should probably be sleeping or at least doing laundry or writing some of those overdue thank you notes!)