Two weeks later

Matt parked his truck in the small parking space beside their new house. Coming back from a long constructing job, he was glad to be home. Last week Gabby's dad and Antonio had cleared out their garden a bit, so the garden was a lot calmer now around the small brick house they lived in now. Even though it was not extremely large, they all had their own room and everything was good again.

Matt walked into the kitchen, kissing Gabby on her cheek, whom was working on dinner.

''It is so good to come home to our own home again.'' Matt groaned as he dropped his bag and stretched his arms.

''I know, It is really great. Come on, sit down, dinner is almost ready.'' She told him but instead he walked to the living room. The kids were still working on the bit of homework they had gotten, while April was asleep in the playpen.

''She has really fat cheeks.'' Kylie suddenly said, looking at her 4 month old sister.

Matt wanted to return that she had had just as much baby fat when she was little, but since she had been the tiniest of all three triplets, that was not something that was truth.

''Come on you all, let's have dinner.'' He said as they all sat down. Gabby was so glad to have her own kitchen again, as she loved to make dinner for the whole family.

''When will Violet be here?'' Kylie asked as she knew their cousin was coming to look after them tonight as Matt and Gabby had to go to their school to look into some of their work. As Violet was 16 now, being a babysitter was her job beside high school and she watched the children more often.

''In just a minute, then we are going to go to school.'' Gabby said, as Violet should be here any minute as Christie has promised to drop her off around this time.

''So we don't have to help with the dishes?'' Christon asked hopeful.

''Oh no, let's get started so we will have it done in time.'' Matt shook his head and the kids sighed, but they did help.

When Violet arrived they went to go to the elementary school that the kids were attending. They were very excited to hear how all three were doing and seeing all the work they had done in the past few months.

''I sometimes sincerely feel bad for the teachers. The twins are really nice and they are not bad kids, but they can gang up with the three of them.'' Matt said and Gabby nodded.

At the school they grabbed themselves one of the drinks and wanted to walk around when a woman came walking their way.

''Whose parents are you?'' The woman asked a bit nosy.

''Oh Kylie is our daughter and-'' Gabby said, wanting to tell her about Christon and Aaron as well but she already interrupted her again.

''Oh my Susan loves Kylie, she tells me they always play together.''

''That is great, actually -''

''There is so many boys in the class as well, I am a bit concerned about it. They are young but I wanted to send Susan to an all girls school.''

''Actually we have two boys as well, Christon and Aaron.'' Matt said, not sure what to do with what she said.

''Ah yeah, I have a younger boy as well, He is quite a hand full.'' The woman laughed loud.

''No Christon and Aaron are in this class as well, they are triplets.'' Matt said, a bit annoyed with her.

''Oh my, triplets! Gee, you look amazing, for somebody who had triplets!'' She said, looking at Gabby from head to toe. Feeling a bit uncomfortable, Gabby stood back a bit.

''I guess you never lose some of the baby weight.'' She said then and Matt nearly dropped his glass, Gabby holding his arm as she did not want him to start a fight here.

''That is because we recently had another baby and lost our home in a fire.'' He said angry.

''Oh my.''

''Yes, oh my. We are going to look at the work of our children now.'' Matt said, before it could get out of hand and he put his arm around Gabby as they walked around, walking to each of the kids tables and while most parents were already chatting again, they were still looking around now as they had had a lot more work to look at.

They loved looking at all the work the kids had done, on their tables were all sort of stuff, drawings, but also the writing practices.

Looking around, matt saw that some of the parents were looking at them and whispering and he was wondering if they were talking about them losing their home, as he had heard some whispering about it, but he didn't mind it as long as he could look at their work, and there was a lot to see.

They were the first ones to be called in to talk about the children and they were happy they did not have to stay around the other parents for too long.

''Please sit down, I am so glad you could make it tonight, after what has happened to your home. ''

''How did they do after that?'' Gabby asked a bit worried, even though they seem to do well at home and they knew the school was supporting them, she did wonder.

''They kept doing so well, and we tried to be easy on them because of the situation but we didn't have to, they did really well and I think they have a lot of support with each other and with you.''

''We try, and yeah, they are really close.'' Gabby said.

''It is really great to see how close they are for siblings.''

''They sure are.'' Matt said, cause it was great to see them because even when hard things happened, as young as they were, they always helped each other through a bit as well.

''Christon is doing well, he does his work well, although he cared more about sports. Which is amazing at! He already wants to join the school football team when he is 8!''

''That is great.'' Gabby smiled proud, they knew he was great at sports

''Kylie is really sweet and has lots of friends. When one of the kids feel sad, she always cheers them up and she is doing very well with her school work. ''

Gabby pinched Matt's hand, so happy to hear this.

''Aaron is doing great, he is such a bright little guy. We are still giving him extra work, because he gets his tasks done so quickly.''

''His moms brains.'' Matt smiled, so proud of all the children. All of them were doing well in the work they had to do and all of them were shining at something else they were so good at and Matt and Gabby couldn't be prouder of their children.

At home, the triplets were already in bed and Violet was sitting on the couch with April in her arms.

''She did not want to stop crying.'' Violet said as she was still holding April.

''Oh I am sorry Violet, hand her here.'' Gabby said and she tried to soothe the little girl.

''How were the triplets?'' Matt asked, hoping they had been a bit better for her.

''They went to sleep. We made cupcakes and they went to sleep then.''

''Oh, I am glad they were a bit better on you.'' Matt said as he handed her the money for babysitting. Even though she didn't want to take the money, it was also her money.

''They made some cupcakes for the two of you as well, they are in the kitchen.''

''That is great.''

Matt left then with Violet to bring her home, didn't want her to make her way alone. Gabby was still in the living room, having little April in her arms. Even though she was still not asleep, she was calmed down now and Gabby carried her up the stairs to the nursery and laid her in the crib after changing her.

She heard Matt come in again and walking up the stairs then as well, slowly and softly walking into the nursery.

''Is she all good?''

''Yeah, she probably wants a goodnight kiss from her dad and go to sleep then. '' Gabby smiled and Matt said goodnight to his little girl. After putting the lights out and having one of the cupcakes the triplets had let them, they went to go to bed as well.

''They did such great work at school.''

''I know, it is so great we got to see it.'' Gabby smiled, so proud of her children and she could not wait to tell them in the morning.

note: The family is settled into their new home and Matt and Gabby had to go to the elementary school that year to talk about the triplets.

Thank you so much for reading. please do let me know what you thought about this chapter and if you are still interested in the story! Hopefully till next chapter, where we jump in time a little bit.