Gay couple awaits their set of quads

Thomas, left, and Michael get their lives ready for the quadruplets they're expecting in less than two months.

(CNN) -- Time is ticking down for Michael Meehan and Thomas Dysarz. They have seven weeks, maybe less, until their babies arrive and they become parents of quadruplets.

They're having their babies -- three boys and one girl -- through in vitro fertilization. Michael, who's an attorney, is the biological father. A 23-year old woman is the surrogate mother.

"She wants to know the children, but she said she just really wants to hug them once and then doesn't really want to have much to do with them," says Michael.

And that's fine with Michael and Thomas, who've been domestic partners for more than four years. They've long dreamed of being parents and raising their own family.

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"I think we'll be good parents because we're good people. We have family values. We're religious people. We plan on bringing our kids to church every Sunday when they're old enough. In general, we're just good people," says Thomas.

They own two hair salons in Lexington, Kentucky, a town where they expected to encounter blatant hostility to their plans for parenthood. It hasn't happened.

"The overwhelming response has been positive," says Michael. "People are very excited and they're very happy and they know, especially people that know us, that these children will have a great home."

But their Corvette will probably have to go in favor of something more spacious. Even so, Michael and Thomas say, it's hardly a sacrifice because now they'll have four kids to love, raise and protect.

"I wouldn't want them to be gay," concludes Thomas. "Because of the fight I've had to go through since I was a child. I wouldn't want them to go through the same thing."

Thomas won't be able to legally adopt the children -- it's not allowed in Kentucky. But that doesn't matter, they say. They'll share both the joys and responsibilities of parenthood.