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Tales From a Triplet House
Life is what happens when you're busy making other plans...
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Sick Child (a Haiku)
My Mother's Daughter Literacy in Bloom! Soccer Mom? Sam I Am I’m a Costco junkie... My Head is Spinning... I need a 'do-over'... Bicycling to school...another milestone. My summer book report. February 08 March 08 April 08 May 08 June 08 July 08 August 08 September 08 October 08 November 08 December 08 January 09 'Be careful how you interpret the world: it is like that.' - Erich Keller 'I do not pretend to understand the universe. It's a great deal bigger than I am.' - Tom Stoppard 'Chaos often breeds life, where order breeds habit.' - Henry Adams 'When you can laugh at yourself, there is enlightenment.' - Shunryu Suzuki 'My advice to you is not to inquire why or whither; but to just enjoy your ice cream while it's on your plate.' - Thornton Wilder This one was on my quote-a-day calendar the day after I found out I was carrying triplets. 
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Kindergarten: Ready or not, here we come!
I registered my trio for kindergarten yesterday, again. I say again because I registered them last year and then decided to hold them back and send them to Transitional Kindergarten program instead. To give them an extra year.
That was a big decision. A huge decision. A decision three years in the making while I attended several events where I listened to speakers and educators discuss the pros and cons of all aspects of how and when to enroll multiple birth children in school. And then I spent months second-guessing and rationalizing my decision. Doesn't it seem like that is what us moms do best; agonize over every little decision for our kids as if the fate of their lives depended on it? I was making this decision about kindergarten and envisioning the affect it would have on their chances on entering college... In the end (or the middle, as it was), as TripletDad and I were sitting in the auditorium watching the Christmas pageant unfold, watching our littlest one hide behind her sister on stage, watching our son talk to all the kids around him and chase an angel feather across the stage (the only child the teacher had to go up and haul back in line!), we knew then that we had definitely made the correct decision for our kids. So there I was in line, again, with forms filled out in triplicate, again. And agonizing over my latest decision to separate my kids in different classrooms. It's for their own good. I know it. I've considered all the angles all my kids' personalities and quirks... But how will it effect them when they are grown... So the challenge of motherhood goes on... 4 comments from 4 users
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posted by
mom2twinboys
on Feb 28, 2008 at 05:26 PM
Definitely difficult decisions you had to make. I'm sure the decisions you made are the right ones. It sounds like you thoroughly researched the issue of whether or not to separate your triplets when they start school this upcoming school year. I'm sure they will do well. Especially since they have such caring and supportive parents. I have also been researching the issue of separating siblings of twins and higher order of multiples in school. Luckily in California, parents (most of the time) have the option to make this decision. Some school districts in other states have policies that automatically require separation of siblings of multiples irregardless of what the parents want.
posted by
SacMom
on Feb 28, 2008 at 05:47 PM
We have had our twins in separate classes for kinder and first and it's been great for them since they've virtually been together since birth and almost every hour of the day! But...I know a lot of twin moms who have them together too. It depends on the children - I like that they are developing individual friendships which has led to individual play dates. That's given us (and our other daughter) an opportunity to have more one on one time with each. Good luck! posted by
sleeplessinsacramento
on Feb 28, 2008 at 08:18 PM
I only have one son and am agonizing over this right now. If only he had not learned so much in Transitional Kindergarten (really like Kindergarten with a smaller class size) and wasn't so smart it would be an easier decision.
posted by
creatress
on Feb 29, 2008 at 07:18 AM
I know what you mean. It feels like the weight of the world it on your shoulders at these moments. I'm sure everything will go smoothly for them (and you). Kindergarten is just wonderful. :)
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