There are moments of peace and solitude...and then suddenly, everyone wakes up or comes in the house together and there is instant chaos.
But good chaos.
There are usually friends coming and going, and talking and baby holding... and Evie jumping around in the middle of it all. These are the moments that I try to relax and let go of rigid schedules or agendas and just enjoy the company and conversation.
However, I realized an important lesson this week about having triplets: If I want to get anything done quickly and efficiently, I have to execute some type of systematic, semi-orderly, machine-like way to do it. I like to call it being in "business mode."
I gave the boys their first bath this week. I set up the bath chair on the kitchen table, put on the little portable heater and took out three washcloths, three towels and set down a little wash bucket filled with luke warm water and soap.
I started with James. Undress, dip, scrub, wrap, diaper, pass...Next!
Then Levi: undress, dip, scrub, wrap, diaper, pass...Next!
And then Caleb...oh sleepy Caleb (for once)...Sorry Caleb...when you are a multiple, you get cleaned with the rest of them, tired or not. Undress, dip, scrub, wrap, diaper, pass...
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| Poor Caleb |
They all screamed while I bathed them, but I was a machine...with a focus and goal: clean boys.
I think it helped that this wasn't my first time bathing an infant. I remember with Evelyn I spent probably 30 minutes giving her her first bath....with the boys, it was probably 20 minutes total for all of them.
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| James |
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| Levi |
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| Caleb |
I think that this is how it will have to be throughout their childhood. Things will have to move along...they will have to move along. Business mode will be necessary in order to accomplish anything.
Right now as I write it is late afternoon. Everyone is napping, except me. I am not in business mode and it feels twice as good to just let go and absorb the stillness that is around me.
Perfect,
unscheduled,
lazy
silence.
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