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Mother's Day with Decker and triplets

"We were ready for anything. And it was a lot of excitement" - Becca Stone

Mother's Day is celebrated this weekend but motherhood is experienced every day.

An East Tennessee mom calls it a 24-hour service business.

"I'm grateful for all of it. I'm grateful for the easy times and I am grateful for the hard times because I feel like I get better and better as a mom," Becca Stone said.

Her kids include four-year-old Decker and her little sisters Barrett, Sutton, and Bailey. They will celebrate their third birthdays May 31.

Becca Stone and her husband Ed knew they wanted four kids so learning she was pregnant with triplets was perfect.

"We were ready for anything. And it was a lot of excitement," she said.

When Decker was born they reached out to the Down Syndrome Awareness Group for support and information. When the triplets came along, Becca became friends with what she calls "triplet moms."

"We just come together and tell our horror stories and just go help, this is what I did to my kid. You know we just really lean on each other and we are a great support system for each other. I'm not in it alone by any means," she said.

A big challenge is logistics.

"So you think oh I want to go to the park. Really? You want to go to the park? Is that a safe idea. And sometime it is. But when I have all four. The three I kind of take and they are almost three and they know the rules and what to do and what not to do. And I'm always with them," she said.

But their big sister likes to wander. That means mom goes to the park with her husband or a friend.

"We make it happen. We make arrangements and we make it happen."

She's a full time mom and Ed works a full time job and when he's at home they are Daddy's girls.

"That family dynamic. There's more excitement. The girls want to dance and throw balls and he throws them up in the air. They do cool things with him that I can't give them," she said.

Each one has her own little personality requiring different parental interaction.

"You know discipline and love on them. They just need those things in totally completely different ways. So sometimes that is a challenge for me. Just making sure that how I handle Barrett is not the exact same as Bailey, that I am giving something else," she said.

Part of taking care of four kids is taking care of herself. She doesn't sweat the small stuff. She focuses on listening and patience.

Other mother's ask her for advice and she is happy to encourage them.

"It's around the clock so you just, you know, these moms look at me like I don't know how you do it I don't know how you get to 8:45 church and I'm like you just plan ahead and you just do it. And I just encourage them, you can do the same things," she said.

Making them most of every moment. Loving your kids all the time, in the good times and the hard times.

"In the hard times I feel like I come out on the other side with some aha moment."

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