Daddy Daycare

This has been a busy last couple days.  My beautiful wife is out of town for 5 days, 5 loooong days...  I am into day 2.  So that means I am in charge of the Karlovich house hold and our 4 year old triplets.  I think all husbands who have at least 3 kids should try this at least once in their child rearing days.  Especially in those early days around the toddler years when the kids are especially needy and take lots of supervision.  I am learning the true meaning of multi-tasking.  Currently as I blog the kids are sitting behind me playing with Play-Doh while the TV with Tom & Jerry cartoons is going in the background.  If your going to be stuck watching cartoons with your triplets you can't beat these classics.  I picked up a DVD of T&J this morning while grocery shopping at my local wholesale club. 

So the long lists of tasks I have enjoyed the last 3 days are as following:
packing lunch boxes, washing endless ammounts of clothes, making breakfast and dinner meals, giving the kids baths, grocery shopping, brushing triplets teeth, feeding the dogs, forgetting to pick up the dogs food off the floor, ironing, cleaning the house, shuttling the triplets to and from school,  administering medications for colds, and having to somehow keep the natives entertained so they don't conspire a mutiny against me.

It is similar to running a Naval vessel with a crew of 1 (me of course being the crew who jobs have included; maid servant, cook, butler, captain, and taxi driver) while having 3 guests on board who have to be waited on hand and foot.  I have no idea how my wife has done this in past while I traveled out of town.  On top of it she didn't get any breaks when she did it.  I of course have scheduled a couple baby sitters on two of the evening to help give me a sanity break.  Also my awesome father-in-law is coming to help me with the kids over the weekend until Dawn returns home Sunday.   So in reality I am sure any mother reading will not have any mercy on me.  But I do want to acknowledge the am mount of work I know my wife does on a daily basis running this ship and she deserves a medal of valor.