Posted on 07/30/2014 1:44:17 PM PDT by NYer
My wife and I recently attended a sports banquet for one of our kids' sports teams at a local restaurant. It was one of those events that I wanted to go to about as much as I wanted to get three teeth pulled. But my wife assured me it would be fun. I didn't believe her but I came anyway.
We've gone to so many of these things as my five kids are on at least three sports teams. All the kids sat together at a long table and all the parents sat at another table with the coaches. I have a theory about sports teams, the worse a team, the more coaches it has. And this team had lots of coaches.
We were seated with about eight coaches and some parents we didn't really know.
So what's the first thing someone we don't really know will bring up as a conversation starter? Well, it's the only thing they know about us which is that we have five kids. This one coach said he knew it was us when we arrived because he saw all five of our kids walking in. "That could only be the Archbolds," he laughed.
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."
Dopey me, I actually felt embarrassed for her. I figured she couldn't hear that well and didn't know who they were talking about and would regret her comment when she learned it was the man and woman sitting directly across from her.
I shouldn't have worried. The coach seemed flummoxed, pointed at us, and then quickly engaged in a conversation on the other side of the table.
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I made same comment to some nosy Beotch in a Macy’s store once. I was with an employee of mine (Russian Legal Immigrant) and her sister had just given birth to her 12th child. We were standing in check out lane and I was telling her how thrilled I was to hear of the new baby. Said they were all so well behaved. A woman behind me (from Boulder, Co) jumped into our conversation and said how disgusting it was to have so many children. My employee, being immigrant, was stunned to silence.
I was not silent. I turned around and explained that I was the youngest of 14 children from the same parents. Not one of us ever was arrested. 14 people and their spouses paid an abundance of taxes. Not one of us had ever received welfare, disability, food stamps or any other type of charity. We all had at least high school and some college.
Needless to say, the lady tucked tail and ran. Guess she didn’t need her shopping items after all.
By the way, Beautiful Family!
It doesn’t sound bad at all. I must clarify that hubby has not made me feel bad for being pregnant or having children. My in laws on the other hand are another story. :(
Oh, that’s a little easier, I would think.
I know and I bet her kid is alternately spoiled and neglected.
I have five children and someday I’ll have more. If you don’t let the kids sit in front of the TV getting their ideas from Hollyweird then five kids is not so big a problem. But anyone who lets liberals raise their families via the media will have issues even if they just have one child.
Understand that if you say that, what you’re actually saying is “I’m not that confident in my parenting skills.”
Pay no mind. A woman at the market poked her daughter and pointed to me as I was walking in with three under three.
Fast forward thirty years and I was told that I and my Catholic kids were going to overpopulate the world. My response was “ yes. And they will have two biological parents raising them in stable intact homes”
Fast forward twenty years and yup. As I said. So thankful.
Grandma didn’t say “cheese.”
My dad had seven siblings, my mom, three. baby boomers.
their parents came from larger families than that.
Then everyone can laugh at me too. Our five kids kept the people in back of us entertained. LOL!
Keep having fun, Matt!
People make fun of the Duggers. I heard all that as I was growing up. Now when I say I have six sisters and three brothers, you know, they get that look on their face of absolute shock as if they just bumped into an alien species.
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 all pay our taxes and none of us have been to prison.
The girl right in the middle could stand to cheer up.
"Is it my fault that you're not as awesome as I am? No, it isn't ... but I can understand that you're jealous."
Maybe 3 years before she died, I took Mother and Daddy shopping. As we got out of the car Mother pointed to a family and said “5 little doorsteps”. When I looked I realized what she meant tho I had never heard the phrase before.
Mother clearly thought they were something special.
I hope I made it clear I was referring to the title. If not, I do apologize.
Raising the Catholic population one pew at a time.
We ended up with four...I guess we were “lite weights”!
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