Sound Sleep: Second Last Day

Dear Gene-Shar,

this coming Thursday is the day you've been waiting for all your lives. The hour your outlook will completely change and priorities have to be re-thought. Your freedoms will be replaced by parental responsibility and late night coffee taken over by equally late night (probably later) milk feeds and nappy changes. Enjoy your second last night of quiet tonight.

And about time too - all these conversations on raising children that you've been semi-involved in, you'll get to own too (three times over!). All the talk of the pain and difficulty, mixed with the joy and excitement - now you will fully understand what these really mean! You will be parents.

You guys will be setting the new standard - 3 is now the minimum. You are our great example of hope - as your triplets say their big "HELLO" to the world on Thursday, may the good Lord above give you the strength and knowledge to get you started on this great journey into familyhood!

Yours,
Leonard + Celest