The Real Reason We Have Three Kids

The truth is – we never planned to have three kids. Kids are a lot of work. Frankly, they can be a pain in the butt with very little reward, too. Or so it seemed.

So why three?

Our oldest, Julia, spent the first 6 months of her life being extremely fussy and hard to comfort. But, dang, that girl was cute.

Despite the sleepless nights and the colic crying, we knew one thing beyond all doubt – we make awesome babies and the world needed more of them.

We got pregnant when Julia was 9 months old. We didn’t expect it to happen so fast, but true to her personality, Hannah is an unstoppable force.

Once we had both girls, parenting became a puzzle – fitting all the pieces of joy, hardship, frustration, exuberance, together to make this beautiful design.

But a piece was missing to our jigsaw puzzle.

The night Joseph was born, our puzzle was complete. He was the missing piece that put everything together. Now, with all three kids, we were a family.

The truth is – we never planned to have three kids.

We never expected to have our world flipped around with the birth of each of the kids. We never expected to have our world rocked quite so. Yet, we also never expected to have so much freaking fun. Kids are a lot of work. Frankly, they can be a pain in the ass too. But, these three kids of ours have been worth every minute of our lives.