Birthday Reflections

OK, so its my birthday today. I am now 36 years old. That just doesn't seem possible. What a wild year it has been! It was on my birthday last year that we offically found out I was pregnant. We didn't find out about the triplets until a few weeks later. After trying for so many years and all the fertility treatments - it was finally going to happen. We were going to have another baby! Dave and I were so excited. Lucas was too- he had been waiting to be a big brother a long time. I had all but given up hope. We had even started the paperwork to go thru an adoption. For those who know what a roller coaster ride fertility treatments and failures can bring - you can understand my hopeless feelings. I was really down to "one more try". When I found out I was pregnant I thought it was the best birthday gift in the world. I was WRONG! The best gift came on Oct 25th 2007 ! I would never have dreamed in a million years that I would be sitting here adding a post to a blog about our family life with TRIPLETS! It has been a year filled with surprise and worry. I spent the first few weeks not really believing that our dream of having another baby was going to come true. I kept waiting for something bad to happen. Then we found out at 10 weeks that it was triplets. I was in shock. I was really nervouse then. I kept waiting for the proverbial" other shoe to drop." I spent countless hours worrying about how we would handle things and praying that everything would turn out for the best. Then the morning sickness kicked in. I never had it with Lucas but the trio decided to gang up on me. I was very greatful when that stage passed. However, I was always bracing myself - after so long it just didn't seem possible that we would have not one healthy baby but Three !! But as I sit here- three healthy, happy babies are napping upstairs! Will, Logan and Jess are absolute miracles to me! The first few months have been going by in a blur. The lack of sleep was hard to handle. But now they are mostly slepping thru the night (7pm - 7am) and when they smile and laugh at you - it is the absolute best feeling in the whole wide world! I would not switch places with anyone. I now have 4 beautiful kids that mean the world to me and a great husband who was and is always supportive of whatever decisions I had to make. I LOVE YOU DAVE !!! Right now I feel like I am on top of thw world. I can't wait to see what this year will bring!