Posted on 08/17/2011 11:17:55 AM PDT by NYer
ROCKVILLE, MD, August 16, 2011 (LifeSiteNews.com) — The astonishing story of a Maryland family with 11 children, ranging in age from 1 to 12, has been featured in a back-to-school piece by the Washington Post Newspaper. The August 10 story chronicles the Kilmer household's day-to-day life and details how they manage to stay lighthearted and have fun while balancing what some might consider an impossibly difficult lifestyle.
Read the Washington Post story here.
In an interview with LifeSiteNews (LSN), Larry Kilmer, a native of Halifax, Nova Scotia, said he viewed speaking with the Post about his family as "an opportunity to show that large families can exist and survive in the Washington area."
"It was a chance for others to see that with some sacrifices it can be done," he said. "Despite the fear that 'you cannot survive,' we wanted to show that it is possible."
The article introduces readers to Larry, a high school teacher, and his wife Jen, a stay-at-home mom, as well as children Christina, Joe, Michelle, Julie, Tommy, Steven, Matthew, John Paul, Larry, Rosemary, and Peter, none of whom are twins or triplets.
The feature chronicles the Kilmer family's daily life, from 5 a.m. to 9 p.m. It notes the many challenges the family faces, but also highlights the many blessings, including the tight friendships shared by the children and the role that the "rock of Faith" plays in the Kilmer household.
"A large family helps to instill in a person many of the strong values and virtues that a society needs in order to survive and continue," Kilmer told LifeSiteNews.com. "In my opinion, the issue of putting others first is at the heart of a large family as you work and exist with other human beings in a close-knit environment."
Commenting on the Washington Post story, Jenn Giroux, founder of Speaking of Motherhood, who is also the mother of a large family, told LSN, "This is an incredible and fair portrayal of this beautiful large family. It is rare to get this perspective from a liberal media outlet."
"Large families have a positive impact on society," Giroux said. "At a time when our national birthrate is dangerously low, large families are producing the future workers that will sustain the elderly in the very near future… They are raising the next generation of Church and political leaders."
"At the heart of large families is the surrender to God’s supreme rights over our lives and an embrace and love of His gift of children," she said. "Unfortunately, this is a foreign and/or unknown concept that has been gradually lost over the last 50 years."
"It requires ‘blind trust’ in God in times of difficulty," Giroux said. "This is a difficult concept for a contracepting society where those today seek to control everything from the day they conceive to sometimes the very sex of their baby."
Read the Washington Post story here.
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*FReeper "wagglebee".
Ping to post #201!
If he takes after his mother, he has a lot of talent. Do you have family talent shows?
BTW, do you make tortillas from scratch? I make tortillas with Maseca brand masa and a tortilla press. They are sooo delicious. I buy another bag when I’m down to one bag, also good for atole, your family would like that probably, great for breakfast or a winter snack drink.
LOL. Aw, look at his adorable little whiskers. We’ve just been discussing rodents on the Undead Thread today!
We don’t have talent shows, but we have reading competitions. The person who can get all the little boys to sit still and be quiet while he’s reading is the winner. I’m the latest champion for my presentaton of “The Wolves in the Walls,” which I’m trying to get Tom to do for competition this fall.
And we haven’t tried making our own tortillas in a long time. I don’t think my Mexican friends do, even - although I’m sure the ones my age know how - because they’re so cheap in large batches. They use the masa harina to make tamales.
Munching???
Is there something you'd like to tell us?
;'}
(I'm sure you meant "punching" ... If I'm on the jury, you get acquitted.)
More cute whiskers.
When I lived in an area with a lot of Mexicans (this was many years ago) I would get tortillas at the Mexican stores still warm. Only ingredients were corn, lime and maybe salt. Where I live now they all have preservatives and taste stale and horrible. I love the fresh ones. Hub can easily sit and eat 8 just with butter on them.
Mr. T and I love Mexican food. Have you ever had fish tacos?
When one is truly enraged, the pit-bull or alligator instincts come to the fore. And if you have your hands full of brocolli, what else can you do?
Haven’t had fish tacos lately, although we did a FReeper recipe for shrimp tacos a while back.
Our electric tortilla press shorted out a while back, so we went back to heating tortillas in the skillet. Maybe we should get a new one and start cooking them. I’ll bet fresh tortillas (with lime!) and a little cream cheese and pineapple-habanero sauce would sell at the church festival, or at the youth group meeting.
YMMV, but I would drop the broccoli and throttle the life out of them with my bare hands.
Nassssty little ORCssess ... gollum ... gollum ... gollum
That was a real-live LOL ;-).
Extra points if you have nasty bacteria under your fingernails!
That sounds delicious! Mr. T makes an appetizer with jalapenos, halved and stuffed with a mixture italian sausage and fresh pineapple that is great.
“Why don’t you start a thread about actual welfare queens because that description simply doesn’t fit this family.”
There’s an idea. But it’s not gonna happen.
I’ve seen this M.O. before. The person gets all morally indignant about some single mom drawing $300 in AFDC, usually about 5 minutes before they go cash their own social security check. Heaven forbid that their gravy train stop, though.
It’s different. Theirs was all earned. (/s) The funny part is when people say that Social Security or Medicare or their government paycheck/pension/health coverage isn’t an “entitlement,” because ... well, because they’re legitimately entitled to it!
That sounds a little sharp for my taste! I plan to grow poblano peppers next year, since we haven’t done well with bell peppers. I’ll get more use out of them than the anaheims and the banana peppers, which I’ve been throwing in anything people wouldn’t notice all summer, just so they’re not wasted.
On an Anthony Bourdain show we recently watched, a Haitian cook was making a shrimp stew cooked with whole habanero peppers, which he removed before serving the dish. It sounds like a good way to use them “safely.”
FreeRepublic is not the animal it once was. This entire thread is disgusting.
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