Everybody always told me having twins, or triplets, or any higher order multiple birth is exponential in work load compare to the n-1. I will never know if this is true since I had the twins and don’t plan on having anymore. However, a vendor called me at work today regarding some work and asked how I am. I told him I’ve been in and out of the office since my twins are taking out all the people around them with their cold and he says he has twins too! Actually, he has 4 kids. Wow.
He says his kids are 20, 15 and the twins are 12. Continued to tell me he knows why people who have twins first don’t ever have anymore. He told me firsthand, through experience, that the workload is indeed exponential. “Having twins is like having 6 kids!” He even told me it will get easier once they are 3 years old and says that his wife and him had a celebration when the last kid was potty-trained. How cute is that.
They are amazing people because the reason why he has 4 kids is because his wife is just baby crazy. After deciding that the twins will be their last, his wife signed them up to be kind of like foster parents but only for babies of teenage mothers who loses custody from the state due to whatever circumstances they are in. He says it’s very sad when babies addicted to crack comes into their care. Those babies take longer to place but he says they always end up placed somewhere. The list of people wanting babies is very long and there is always a home waiting for them. That’s just beautiful to me. I admire people like this.