Preparing for a Special Delivery

Within a couple of days of the sonogram, my dad was off to the races.  No, I don’t mean he went to bet on horses, even though he did seem to talk a lot about money.  He was like a madman preparing our house for a coming hurricane.  Where we lived was sufficient for five people…but eight?  That was going to take some work!  But don’t get me wrong, although dad was busy, all the hard stuff was done by his friends.

I think dad was a little worried that the remodeling wouldn’t be finished in time.  Mom said that normally babies take 40 weeks to come into the world.  However,  my new brothers would come earlier because most triplets come at 32 weeks when they run out of room.  Since the sonogram was done at the 21st week, dad had less than three months to get the house remodeled.  He might have been stressed, but let’s face it, he wasn’t he one with three babies inside of him!

My parents said that sometimes moms go on “bed rest” a few weeks before delivering  because their bodies shouldn’t work too hard.  Bed rest sounds kind of fun especially if I could watch episodes of “The Aquabats” or Twenty One Pilots videos.  Oh, and my mom never had to go on bed rest because she is some kind of superhero.

The first thing that needed updated was to add a second laundry room in the master bedroom closet.  Next, was a second water heater.  Then in the basement came the big project. A hallway, small office and small bedroom were torn down and a big bedroom for my two older brothers was built.  A full bath was also added to the new bedroom and now Phoenix and Bronze were set.

The house was a mess from March through May.  Then, right about the first part of June, all of the work was done.  Now we just had to wait.  The babies could come at anytime and I heard my parents say it was like the calm before the storm.   Dad said it felt like we were on the first part of a giant roller coaster where we just kept climbing uphill.  The anticipation of the drop that was soon to come was both exciting and terrifying.  I wouldn’t know.  I won’t ride roller coasters and I don’t know what anticipation means.

This is mom trying to get comfortable in bed about a week before the triplets were born.

Here is mom on Father’s Day 2103 just 4 days before the babies came!  She was pretty miserable.

In this picture I was helping my dad clean up my big brother’s new room before the carpet was put down.

(written from Journey’s perspective by dad…but partially typed by Journey)