My parents raised 5 children, all to adulthood.
I was visiting them when they were in their early 80s. Mother asked me to drive her around where she grew up. Her Father had a thousand acre farm and all 12 of his children worked hard. Mother showed me the field where 75 years before she had to go get the cows and bring them home at night. She was only six.
Mother once told me that the happiest time of her life was when her children were young.
My daughter was reminding me of my mom telling her about her baby sister bringing water in a bucket to them in the field. She was so small that by the time she got to the field, each person got a whole spoon full of water because it had splashed out. People complain about the older Duggar children helping out but in my family we have done that since childhood. Part of growing up.
I was talking to my mom about 15 years ago. I asked her where she was the happiest and she said the house we lived in where most of us were born. I am not sure where my older sister and brother were born.