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."
We had five. I've always thought that was a very nice size.
We ended up with four...I guess we were “lite weights”!
Five is a nice number. Many Americans go for the number two. Curiously, the Lebanese members of my parish seem to prefer the number three, with a few exceptions. It's quite fascinating, IMHO. Why three? I pointed this observation out to one of them but they acted surprised, as if it were unplanned. One family, perhaps, but 5, 6, 7 families ... each with 3 children? The exceptions include one family where #3 was twins. It's somewhat of a conundrum.