This article was written by Mike Poff, a great writer for Multiplicity. A following of the wit, wisdom and everyday adventures of one of the foremost at home dads around! 7 kids, one set of Quads, a slew of dogs, cats, horses, cattle all on a 40 acre farm in the Beautiful Blue Ridge Mountains. What could go wrong? Mike Poff contributed the amazing article: The Best Laid Plans in our inaugural issue of Multiplicity. Take a look his blog, So Not your Average Dad, to find some interesting info about life as the “Quadfather”.

 

“Pressing the emergency ringer, I hugged my daughters tightly and instructed them to go by the window and pray for their mom. There was a little Christmas display of cards and a little wooden Christmas tree with four happy snowmen waving from it there. They went and began urgently telling God how much Mommy needed His help.

At that moment my in-laws appeared in the room and I quickly explained that their daughter was in convulsions. I instructed them that they needed to stay and pray with their granddaughters while I quickly had to find a doctor. Running to the nurses’ desk, I found myself calmly explaining what was happening, though I was emphatically pressing upon the urgency that they needed to get our doctor right away.

I have always been one to remain oddly calm in a crisis and this trait had served me well over the years. So now I was finding help, explaining the situation, and keeping everyone else as calm and focused as possible. Rushing back to the room with a nurse and an on-call Ob/Gyn Doctor in hot pursuit, calmness was not what we encountered. More