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I'd Kill Myself if I Had That Many Kids
NC Register ^ | July 30, 2014 | Matthew Archbold

Posted on 07/30/2014 1:44:17 PM PDT by NYer

My wife and I recently attended a sports banquet for one of our kids' sports teams at a local restaurant. It was one of those events that I wanted to go to about as much as I wanted to get three teeth pulled. But my wife assured me it would be fun. I didn't believe her but I came anyway.

We've gone to so many of these things as my five kids are on at least three sports teams. All the kids sat together at a long table and all the parents sat at another table with the coaches. I have a theory about sports teams, the worse a team, the more coaches it has. And this team had lots of coaches.

We were seated with about eight coaches and some parents we didn't really know.

So what's the first thing someone we don't really know will bring up as a conversation starter? Well, it's the only thing they know about us which is that we have five kids. This one coach said he knew it was us when we arrived because he saw all five of our kids walking in. "That could only be the Archbolds," he laughed.

The mom directly across from me, who I didn't really know and hadn't seen at many games, leaned in conspiritorially and asked, "Who has five children? I'd kill myself if I had that many kids."

Dopey me, I actually felt embarrassed for her. I figured she couldn't hear that well and didn't know who they were talking about and would regret her comment when she learned it was the man and woman sitting directly across from her.

I shouldn't have worried. The coach seemed flummoxed, pointed at us, and then quickly engaged in a conversation on the other side of the table.

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To: Popman

I was pregnant with my third in under 2 and a half years, standing in line at our vet buying catfood. One of the assistants noticed my huge pregnant belly and said something like

‘I thought you just had a baby!’

I replied ‘yes, and now I’m having another one!’

She replied ‘How many is this now?’

‘Three’.

Her: ‘Wow, they’re close together, isn’t the oldest just 2 now?’

me: ‘not quite 2 and a half’.

Some women in line muttered loudly enough for everyone to hear ‘someone ought to take HER to the vet and have her fixed!...’

VERY uncomfortable silence after that.


101 posted on 07/30/2014 4:19:48 PM PDT by Black Agnes
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To: NYer

Mother had 4 brothers and 3 sisters, farm family. I just now realized WHY I’m an only child... The guy who used to live across the street, his mama had 16 kids. Oy!


102 posted on 07/30/2014 4:22:45 PM PDT by W. (Leftists that elected a ThirdWorldPOS 4 Prez can't bitch 'cause their Prez now craps on them!)
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To: Popman

Yes, and I’ve had people go into detail about why they don’t have more children, even though I never asked.


103 posted on 07/30/2014 4:22:54 PM PDT by Tax-chick (No power in the 'verse can stop me.)
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To: ronnyquest
What if I married a Mexican woman?

An I'm part Indian? What are you going to call me?

104 posted on 07/30/2014 4:25:50 PM PDT by Osage Orange (I have strong feelings about gun control. If there's a gun around, I want to be controlling it.)
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To: Black Agnes
Some women in line muttered loudly enough for everyone to hear ‘someone ought to take HER to the vet and have her fixed!...’

Wow...

Nice restraint on your part...

Lot's of people would have sent to the dentist to get caps for her front teeth they knocked down her throat....

105 posted on 07/30/2014 4:27:17 PM PDT by Popman ("Resistance to Tyrants is Obedience to God" - Thomas Jefferson)
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To: Tax-chick
No one should "beat you down" for having children...

I'm pretty sure your kids are healthy, smart, and good kids...

106 posted on 07/30/2014 4:31:50 PM PDT by Osage Orange (I have strong feelings about gun control. If there's a gun around, I want to be controlling it.)
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To: Tax-chick

Hmm, Global Dictator Tom. We might have a new FR meme starting here. ;-)


107 posted on 07/30/2014 4:42:22 PM PDT by Charles Martel (Endeavor to persevere...)
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To: Osage Orange
"What if I married a Mexican woman? An I'm part Indian? What are you going to call me? "

I don't believe I addressed you one way or another. Are you trolling for a reaction? I do not care to whom you are married. What do you call yourself? Are you harboring self-loathing? Whatever.

The fact remains that White people in White nations are not reproducing in numbers to match losses and that, failing a reversal of this trend, we will become minorities in our own nations within a few decades.

108 posted on 07/30/2014 4:42:30 PM PDT by ronnyquest (I spent 20 years in the Army fighting the enemies of liberty only to see marxism elected at home.)
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To: ronnyquest
My question albeit hidden...was do you only want White people to procreate?

Self-loathing? HA!!

I don't want "white" people...I want "AMERICAN PEOPLE".

Do you not want that?

109 posted on 07/30/2014 4:52:49 PM PDT by Osage Orange (I have strong feelings about gun control. If there's a gun around, I want to be controlling it.)
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To: ronnyquest
My question albeit hidden...was do you only want White people to procreate?

Self-loathing? HA!!

I don't want "white" people...I want "AMERICAN PEOPLE".

Do you not want that?

110 posted on 07/30/2014 4:53:50 PM PDT by Osage Orange (I have strong feelings about gun control. If there's a gun around, I want to be controlling it.)
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To: Tax-chick

Anoreth’s dog isn’t a sea dog? :)


111 posted on 07/30/2014 5:00:28 PM PDT by Redcitizen (Hmph. Adventure. Heh. Excitement. Heh. A Jedi craves not these things.)
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To: NYer

Our second child was just born after a very high risk pregnancy. Most people were good to us, but a few have demanded I get a vasectomy because Dani “ Took up to much resources”. I have a lot of things I would like to say, but in a work environment I can’t.

We want more, but it may not be possible


112 posted on 07/30/2014 5:11:24 PM PDT by redgolum ("God is dead" -- Nietzsche. "Nietzsche is dead" -- God.)
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To: Osage Orange

All are healthy, most are smart, several are good ...


113 posted on 07/30/2014 5:14:27 PM PDT by Tax-chick (No power in the 'verse can stop me.)
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To: Redcitizen

She got seasick on the Cape May-Lewes Ferry, I was told.


114 posted on 07/30/2014 5:16:55 PM PDT by Tax-chick (No power in the 'verse can stop me.)
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To: Charles Martel

It won’t be pretty.


115 posted on 07/30/2014 5:19:05 PM PDT by Tax-chick (No power in the 'verse can stop me.)
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To: Tax-chick

No, what the lady in the article maybe isn’t thinking about is that most parents don’t go from zero to five kids all at once. You normally have time to get ready.


116 posted on 07/30/2014 5:47:48 PM PDT by RichInOC (No! BAD Rich! (What'd I say?))
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To: Tax-chick
if I hadn’t been pregnant again before I knew what hit me, we wouldn’t have had seven more, easier children after him

BTDT. We have two pair of what the wife calls "Catholic twins". #2 and #3 were 15 months apart. #4 and #5 were 12.

117 posted on 07/30/2014 6:12:19 PM PDT by Lee N. Field ("And if you are Christ's, then you are Abraham's offspring, heirs according to promise" Gal 3:29)
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To: Lee N. Field

lol my sister was born 51 weeks after me


118 posted on 07/30/2014 6:13:00 PM PDT by GeronL (Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans)
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To: Tax-chick
“How come you only have one child? Don’t you and your husband like each other? Are you sick?

LOL.

119 posted on 07/30/2014 6:14:01 PM PDT by Lee N. Field ("And if you are Christ's, then you are Abraham's offspring, heirs according to promise" Gal 3:29)
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To: Lee N. Field

Our first two are 10 months apart, both born in the same calendar year. Irish twins is what we’ve always called them.


120 posted on 07/30/2014 6:14:06 PM PDT by Legatus (Either way, we're screwed.)
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