Dinner out with the trips

We as a family tend to eat out on the weekends, mainly for the breakfast meal. A lot of people shudder at the thought of taking the triplets out to breakfast because of all the work you might think is involved. It's really not that bad. At this point the kids do the most of the heavy lifting when it comes to getting dressed. So that is not a problem. The problem is getting up early enough to beat the crowds. Again the kids tend to wake up early so the real issue is Mom an Dad crawling out of bed. For us, sleeping late consists of eight o' clock. So let's say that we are up and dressed and loaded into the car, " a thirty minute process." We now have to pick where we are going to go. Which normally takes place while we are driving around. When we do settle on our breakfast place we park and unload the and head in the doors. Now a little background, we have a couple of local places that we like to go for breakfast. One of the places love us. we have been going there the entire time we have lived here. The wait staff know us and think our kids are super cute and well behaved. And it's true our kids are really good in public. Why, once when the kids were very young, we're talking about two and some change, went to this place and got the normal glares and sighs from the patrons. Long story short the kids were so good and well behaved that another couple paid for our breakfast.  On a side note unless you have children you may not be aware of the pure hatred you receive as a parent when going to places like movies or restaurants. People tend to either have children and understand or don't have kids and believe that any children are going to cry and stink up the place. Today I learned that children deal with prejudice, even if it is handled by their parents. Now to be fair there are some horrible children out there but really is it the kids fault or should we blame the parents? I tend to rest in the blame the parents camp, I am just incredibly lucky to have children that came out respecting the unspoken rules of society. Really I think that children are easy to understand, their desires are very simple to get. Children are not filled with subterfuge. The better you know your children the better they behave. This is why I think it's such a blessing that I have been able to be a stay at home dad. I know my kids and they know me so the lines of communication are very clear, and they don't have to lash out to get my attention or my wife's attention. I believe that the majority of tantrums and crying episodes in public are the only way that a child can gain control of a situation or get their parents attention. Since my children don't have those issues we know that when they cry there is normally a good reason. Unless it's past their bed time them all bets are off, then we have the kids that you don't want to sit next to anywhere. The next time your are next to some parents in public with children acting all the fool rather than get all pissy and judgemental consider you self lucky because those poor parents have to go home with that child.