When I was pregnant with my daughter, my due date fell only a few days before March 3, 2003. That’s 03-03-03. I had high hopes for going into labor on that day since three is my lucky number but my daughter arrived 11 days later.

Michigan mom Barbara Soper obviously has a lot more luck.

According to USA Today, Soper’s “first was born on Aug., 8, 2008, her second on Sept. 9, 2009 and her most recent on Oct. 10, 2010. Yes, that’s 8-8-08, 9-9-09 and 10-10-10.”

She certainly has the easiest job ever when it comes to remembering her children’s birthdays.

The Soper family’s trio of auspicious birth dates might seem rare and unlikely but statisticians are saying it’s more probable than you might think. Shannon McWeeney, a professor of biostatistics at the Oregon Health Sciences University in Portland, told USA Today that “such a lineup can only happen in the first 12 years of the century and at least 10 months apart. Given that the first birth occurred in that window, the probability is not as astronomical as you might be compelled to think.”

Anyone else out there with an auspicious birth date?