Advice to Those About to have Triplets
When I found out we were having triplets, panic set in. Panic and honest deep down fear. Now bare with me on this one, but here is your advice if you just found out you were expecting triplets.
I had my sales class today and we discussed our financial and professional goals. Mine now revolve around the kids and gone are the trips to Europe, etc. Well, at least on the serious back burner. But it occurs to me this. All of those things I can choose to obtain. We ultimately decide what we want in life, even if life throws us curves. How we react to those curve balls is up to us.
So I thought about my response to having triplets and I am going to equate it to this. If someone came up to me and said, you are now going to be a player on a professional basketball team and you start in one week. I would think, no I am not. I can't. I am not ready to play on a professional basketball team. I am not good enough. In fact, I never even remotely considered that I would ever be a professional basketball player.
But what if I really was given the opportunity and had to play. How good could I be? How many people get an opportunity like that? Think of how many people would love to have someone offer them such an opportunity. What an amazing experience.
So guess what. You are going to be parents of triplets. You can do it. You should and will feel extremely gratefull that you get this opportunity. It will be hard. It will stretch you to perform on levels both professionally and at home that you never imagine you would do. Perhaps never even thought of doing. Somedays it won't feel like you should be there and lots of days you are going to be dog tired. But you remember, you have been selected. It is amazing what you can do once you are selected.