I am the mother
of seven children. I love having a large family and cannot imagine my life any
other way. I have been asked a lot of silly questions over the years. Here are
ten of the most frequent ones.
1. Are
they all yours? Yes. Yes they are. I gave birth to
six and adopted one of them. I claim them all. Once in a while a neighbor kid
gets mixed in and I get a little confused when I count heads though.
2. Do
they all have the same father? Believe it or not, complete strangers
have asked me this question. It never fails to amaze me. And yes. Yes. I've been happily married for thirty years now. The oldest is twenty-six.
3. Are
you Catholic? No. I am not Catholic. I’m pretty sure all religious
groups allow married couples to reproduce.
4. Were
they all planned? I’d really love to talk to you about the origin of
each one of my children’s lives but that would be kind of weird. And, the kids
are standing right here listening.
5. You
must homeschool, right? Ummmm. No. We don’t. Not that there is
anything wrong with that….
6. How
do you feed them all? Well, my husband works and brings home a
paycheck and then I go to the grocery store. But we only have six plates so
they have to take turns…
7. Are
you done? Well of course I am done. Who in their right mind would have
eight kids? That is just a ridiculous number of children. I cannot imagine how
we would be able to feed them all.
8. How
can you afford seven children? We can’t. We will still be paying
student loans off when we are in the nursing home. Got any spare change?
9. How
do you keep them all straight? Give me a break. There aren’t a hundred
of them. Only seven. I know their names and their ages. I even know a few other
things about each of them too.
10. Do
they fight? They do occasionally fight. They are siblings.
