"We never had a honeymoon, and we've never taken a trip," says Donna. "We're satisfied to stay home.
More details.....One big happy family
Posted on 05/09/2005 11:47:41 AM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin
Not enough traffic jams where you are?
I do laundry every day too, and we have only 5 in my house.
I cannot even imagine how much Tide that would be in a year!
Yikes!
Bless her heart, she must be one determined woman.
My guess:
By the time the family couldn't fit into two vehicles (one driven by Mom & one by Dad), their oldest kids were able to drive!
Just. Wow.
God bless this woman and her family abundantly. The bible says that children are an inheritance of the Lord and happy is the man whose quiver is full of them. I guess that this mommy's husband is one very very happy man also
"We never had a honeymoon, and we've never taken a trip," says Donna. "We're satisfied to stay home.
More details.....One big happy family
"How would they travel?"
Travel? Other than to the State Fair and back, they probably didn't, LOL! They farm. 198 Acres. THAT'S your life. And a Good One it is! :)
"You just have to be happy at what you're doing," she adds.
"Be a sharer, and take care of one another."
That says it all.
Second, It never crossed my mind that we couldn't take care of them, not ever, ever, ever," she said. - how is that so many other selfish individuals in this country don't think they can take care of even one child and must abort? I agree completely with this amazing mom - after all, how could you *not* take care of them??
# 1 reason why I had a vasectomy. To stop at two children. Kudos to them though!
"...how is that so many other selfish individuals in this country don't think they can take care of even one child and must abort?"
I don't think it's so much that they CAN'T it's that they don't want to be BOTHERED.
Those darn moral, upstanding, conservative breeders in Jesusland! They'll be the death of this country, yet! /sarcasm ;)
I only have one sister, but I married into a farm family of 12 kids and now have 14 nieces and nephews besides my own kid, from newborn up to nineteen. It's just an absolute BLAST. I envy anyone that got to grow up in a big, loving family. They're few and far between these days.
Where I live there are far more critters than people. My social life consists of standing by the road and waving to passing cars.
Ah - well if you lived closer to town, perhaps you wouldn't be worrying about people not breeding fast enough.
More power to this woman, but I think we'd be up a creek for space in a hurry if everyone did this!
"Death of the West" by Patrick Buchanan.
I'm not a fan of Mr. Buchanan's priorities...
He seems to only worry if the population is not white enough.
Please read the book if you have a chance. It's not about color but culture.
Like I said, I'm not a particular fan.
Ok, that's a big family.
Most of the sort of large families I know have fewer than eight kids. Based on my drive halfway across the country, we've got room for at least a few more people.
A few... but it takes a lot of acres of corn and wheat and cattle to feed those cities too, we can't fill them all up ;~D
I'm not really anti-big family, I don't mind if people have big families, I was arguing this concept that we need a vigorously growing population. I don't think we do ;~D
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