[Wneighbor]

Hey! They're MY grandkids and I love every one of them! Tom wants a baseball team and I am anxiously awaiting the next 5! I can call 'em a litter if I want to and so can PQ. It may be a southern thing or a Texas thing but it is NO insult to speak of one's children that way here!

[JenB]

Maybe, in the South, it isn't. Maybe in the south, the grocery store workers don't feel it's their duty to tell mothers about birth control, or church people know better than to tell kids their parents are stupid. Up here, it's not that way. I'm probably - no, I know I am - oversensitive. I know you guys don't mean it badly, but it brings up a lot of really nasty memories for me.

On the other hand, I think five children makes a small family.