How 1 became 2, and 2 became 5

Where do I even begin? Long before there were triplets, it was just Kate and Pete. Which, three years later, is still crazy to think about!

My husband, Pete, and I met in 2011 during our freshman year at Champlain College in Burlington, VT. Pete, from New Jersey, and I, from Connecticut, crossed paths here and there, mostly when he would pop into my on-campus job to grab a coffee before class.

We had mutual friends and were both in other relationships at the time, so the extent of our “friendship” was really just a bunch of “hi’s” and “bye’s” or quick conversations at house parties. Fast forward to 2014: we were both single, and I was returning home from studying abroad in Dublin, Ireland, where I had lived among Pete’s closest friends and roommates from back in the States.

Once I got back to Burlington, Pete’s apartment was one of my first stops (to see the Dublin crew, of course). We had a chance to catch up, learned we were both single, and—cliché as it sounds—the rest is history!

We started dating in April 2014, graduated together in 2015, moved to NYC that summer, and got engaged in February 2020, right before the world shut down. Planning a wedding during a pandemic was just as glamorous as you’d imagine. But the universe worked in our favor, and in July of 2021, we had our dream wedding!

We always knew we wanted children, and the “plan” was to have two. Two parents, two eyes, two arms, two hands—the perfect scenario for two kids. So that November, just four short months after our wedding, we started trying for a family... and that’s where our story really begins!