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read the article...age differences are discussed as well as the dynamic between the older and younger siblings.
No. I think I’m done. 5 years of no pregnancy. I turned 50 in October. It would have been really really funny if I got pregnant on our anniversary trip to Jamaica but I didn’t.
My bffs daughter has a jenky uterus. Like it’s half not there on one side. I offered to donate mine to her. But she doesn’t want to give birth.
Yes. Long ago my husband left #1 at church two weeks in a row. We only had two at the time. More recently I left #9 at my friends house. I hollered load up and her little friend said she didn’t have to go yet so she didn’t. I got half way home when my friend called to say she was still there. Not a major deal. I’m usually pretty particular about counting heads or doing roll call if we are somewhere like the zoo or Disney.
Not at the same time but I was in that midnight train to Moscow from St. Petersburg. Everything he described was spot on. I have no trouble believing that story.
My dad was big on “#1 will never know #10” or “you can’t do the same for all of them” like those were reasons not to have them. Our main thoughts are “I’m going to be 63 when he’s 18/graduating/moving out”. But day to day it doesn’t matter much. We just do the next thing.
Yes the older ones have been extremely helpful. Our parents live/lived 2-4 hours away, weren’t terribly involved. We have extremely good friends too. We call each other co parents and we mean on each other daily. But the big kids definitely help with the younger kids at the play ground, or outside if I’m inside. But I’m big on everyone pitching it. Not so much child care but housework. And my 16yo sin cooks dinner almost every night now. He makes really good fried chicken.
He is. He looks exactly like my dad at the same ages. Scary.Super-cute. Blue shirt, long tie in the front is going to be trouble, though.
My original name was eunuch maker. I was told it hurt feelings and was too violent so I changed it. It fits me well and I use it everywhere now.
We have done a league with one other family. We really aren’t into football, fantasy or real, anymore. My husband and a couple of kids do fantasy premier league now though.You could field a fantasy football league with just the people in your immediate family. Any plans to do so?
How about the odds that you are a grandma before you get the last kid out of the house?
Super-cute. Blue shirt, long tie in the front is going to be trouble, though.
I thought similar - he is having none of that pic that day.
Oh I’m certain of it. One thing my dad was right about is I won’t be the kind of grandmother I want to be for all of them. I will legitimately be too old for some and too far from others. I didn’t think that through maybe.KarmaPolice said:How about the odds that you are a grandma before you get the last kid out of the house?
Anyway, awesome article and beautiful family!
My teen hates cameras. Handsome dude in RL, but when there is a picture to be taken he ends up giving off this creepy fake smile.
I told my husband when we got married: good food, clean house, good sex- pick 2. Now we are fat and have a lot of kids.Based on family size, we can deduce what one activity is...
I’m going to print this out and frame it and hang it on the wall. Thanks for your kind words and for this forum. I’ve been here for 17 years. Joined when my first son was born. I love the insights and news I learn here. And the community here is unbeatable.
Four seems to be the ideal in my friend group. They seem the happiest. Two is too few and too much work. 11 is insanity incarnate. But my 4 kid friends are the most well adjusted and happy.
not quite, but sometimes not far off. 
