Even though I don’t have kids (nor am I expecting any, thanks, it’s just holiday overeating), I still find myself reading the SF Chronicle’s parenting blog, The Poop. Maybe I read it because I think things called “The Poop” are inherently funny. I don’t know.

Anyway, I read a fun interview yesterday with a local mother of quadruplets, Gen McNulty. Gen and her husband Connor have a great blog on their journey into immediate superfamily-dom. The site follows the couple through a sometimes scary pregnancy and the births and homecomings of four a-dang-dorable little kids: Russ, Libby, Molly, and Ally.

I’m sure it goes without saying that to most people, one child is a daunting prospect. But four! And this mom had to learn to manage the whole flock in a Sacramento home with NO CENTRAL AIR during the summer of 2006. Were you guys here that summer? That summer was bad, bad, bad. For that alone, I would award Gen mother-of-the-year every year, from here on out.

Filled with impossibly cute photos, the blog isn’t always rainbows and stuffed animals, like when Gen McNulty opened up about the well-founded anxieties that keep parents of high order multiples awake at night. These kids seem to have beaten every odd stacked against them - but, naturally, fears linger anyway.

It’s a fun read and a great testament to the Sutter NICU. I don’t ever want to have a high-risk pregnancy or ailing baby. But if that happens, I’ll hope to be in Sacramento.