Posted on 07/22/2008 12:21:44 PM PDT by Coffee200am
She and her husband are doing what God intended them to do, and it looks like they’re doing a splendid job of it!! God Bless them! I wish we would have been fruitful—at least our babies weren’t aborted by their birthmothers.
Thanks for the ping gw!
I’m still working on the last 20 lbs from my latest munchkin.
This gives me hope and a good dose of motivation!
A mom with rules? How refreshing, how responsible, how smart, and top it off with eternal no tattoos, and the children obey? You have given the world the key to success. Your offspring should praise your name in gratitude, for at least the next two or three centuries.
Do you know the family? Maybe you work for the welfare system there?
I doubt it, so therefore you are not "sure". It's a good practice not to assume anything!
I don’t see anything here other than a great family with anything other than beautiful children.
What’s not to like?
I didn't see anything about that in the story. Do you have access to some facts not in evidence in the story?
It shouldn't matter how many a couple has. They should learn to appreciate and care for what they have.
Surely they heard me say at times, "We don't have the money to replace that!" Mean mom? LOL.
Ohhh, bless their hearts! That is one blessed family!
Your sense of humor, however, was DOA.
Hey, I gave crerdit where credit was due .. muleskinner on the other hand, blatantly ripped off Groucho Marx.
I was never a Size 0, although what they’re calling 0 now was more like a 4 (or even 6) when I was a young sylph. I just bought my 17-year-old size 2 jeans, and she’s not skinny.
How are you feeling, scotswife? You and all the childer okay?
FWIW, those kids look incredibly happy in that picture. God Bless them all. England could use a few more families like that to re-populate the island.
I’m doing well Tax-Chick - thanx for asking!
Going on 3 months here.
It’s a bit more of crowd control lately than decent family time, but baseball is winding down so it won’t be so hectic pretty soon.
My one year old loves his new sister, but this wasn’t good for attempts to wean him from the bottle.
The bottle is the great love of his life, and seeing her with a bottle all day makes that situation a bit sticky.
How have you been coping this summer?
I suppose you’re used to having everyone at home.
I’m struggling with the “I’m bored” syndrome - whining -fighting.
The elementary age kids do get to attend a recreation program until noon at the school. But today is rainy, so I’m dreading the afternoon with everyone cooped up inside.
What do you do with your bored whiny fighting kids?
I was never a zero either.
Lucky for me, my hubby likes curves.
I had just gotten down to a 6 (the old “8”?) right before I got pregnant this last time.
I’m currently trying to wrestle my way out of my 12’s.
I’ve just started the David Kirsch diet (New York Diet).
It’s strict - but it works pretty fast.
I was a 14 when I got married, with Major Snoobage. Now I’m an 8; 14 is a bit large, what with the effect of gravity over time ...
Things are going fine here. Bill and Tom went to Boy Scout camp. Anoreth is enrolled for community college, starting August 18, and looking for a job. We’re doing some gardening, some remedial math, lots of Spanish choir.
When my kids get bored or obnoxious, I declare them tired or exercise-deprived, and send them to bed or the treadmill. Usually a mild threat gets them outside, at least :-). “Find your math book!” is a good disappearing spell, too! The hardest part is keeping Pat and James (6 and 4) usefully occupied, because they’re too young to be turned loose in the neighborhood.
What an absolutely beautiful family.
Should we worry that you’re on a thread about 13 kids?
Nope; I now know that it’s a vagina, not a clown car, it’s okay to love your cigar, and other, equally tasteless bits of ‘pleasantness’ will no doubt come my way once I tell the in-laws.
I’m a bit worried that you’re here, though. Are you thinking of adding to the platoon? ;-)
Well I’d have to go with ‘deduction’ on this one. Let’s see what we got here...
1. UK’s a hard core welfare state.
2. They got 13 kids, 14th on the way.
3. It’s a single income family.
4. Main breadwinner in the family is a trucker.
5. In US, a *far* cheaper and more affordable place to live, having 13 kids, 14th on the way, and existing on 50k annual salary of a truck driver would be VERY difficult without some kind of state support. Unless they all eat spagetti and beans every day.
In UK - impossible. Well let’s just say that the odds are some type of government ‘program’ is involved in keeping everyone fed and clothed here.
ahhh...an 8. I’d like that right about now.
I have so many sizes in my closet - these past few years have been so crazy, I feel like my body is an accordian!
Hoping to be an 8 by the end of summer.
Once school starts I can put in the last sweaty push for a 6.
And then I’m NEVER doing this again! LOL!
ok...maybe I should go buy some math books - or busy workbooks.
I’m too sleep deprived to constantly be issuing threats.
They know I’m tired. They can smell my weakness.
“In UK - impossible. Well let’s just say that the odds are some type of government ‘program’ is involved in keeping everyone fed and clothed here.”
well..you are talking about more socialism in UK.
So they get “free” health care (even though it’s paid for with high taxes)
I’m not sure if they have the same method we have of giving tax credits based on number of children?
I doubt they get government money for clothes.
I don’t know if a salary of $50,000 with such a large family might qualify them for assistance with food?
Some years ago I was on a flight to Germany, and a german midwife was sitting next to me.
She noticed I was pregnant and asked me “how much does your government pay you after the birth?”
I didn’t understand what she was getting at.
Turns out - at the time - in Germany you got a gift from the government of $500 whenever you had a baby, plus a daytime nurse for the first 2 wks. compliments of the government as well.
I don’t know if the UK has something similar or not.
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