Some of the fun things that happen when your wife is expecting quintuplets

I was thinking today about all of the fun things that happen when your wife is expecting quintuplets. One of the main fun things I noticed is that it gives me something interesting to tell people about. Normally, I only have mundane things to tell people about like how frustrating it is to mow a lawn with really complex and occasionally dangerous shrubbery. With topics like that, you can only keep someones attention for maybe 5 or 6 seconds before they start to drift off to sleep. Having quintuplets, however, is a different story. Now I have a great thing to talk about with people which has given me a wonderful excuse to look up old friends and relatives that I haven't seen or heard from in years. As a side note, when we moved to Texas, we pretty much moved out of the lives of most of our old friends and many of our extended family members. We had to start fresh which was fun but it meant that we really didn't keep in contact with many of our old friends because they were just so far away (yes, although Texas probably isn't as big as most Texans claim, it is still a fairly large state). Now, I have been in contact with a whole lot of people that I hadn't heard from in years. It is great!

Another fun thing that happens when your wife is having quintuplets is that you get to make a web site and a blog that people actually have some interest in checking out. I have tried to keep a journal over the past few years but I keep not doing it. This is mainly because I mistakenly assume that I don't have much to write about. I know that if I were to just write about all of the funny things my kids have done, it would be time well spent. With a blog about quintuplets, I have a better excuse... the only problem is that other people read it which didn't happen much with previous journal attempts.

One more fun thing is that I can sometimes sit there and day dream about all of the great potential things you could do with 5 kids of the same age. If I can teach them (or hire someone to teach them) to sing, they could be a nice quintet. If I can get them to work together, they might make a great basketball team that could come up with secret plays because they know each other so well. If I can teach them how to do yard work... well, the potential is endless! Either way, there are a lot of really fun things to think about.

My favorite however, is thinking about all of the great family hugs we could have each morning before I go to work. Can you imagine 5 little 3 year old kids crowding around to give mommy and daddy a group hug? That just sounds like it would all be worth it.