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Thursday, March 27, 2008
You Might be a Large Family If.........
- You take up a whole pew at church.
- When you laugh and shake your head at so called "family-sized" products.
- Cheaper by the Dozen is one of your favorite movies.
- You buy milk 5 gallons at a time.
- You need a minimum of 2 carts in the grocery store.
- The children are lonely when there are only 4 of them home.
- People ask "are they all yours?"
- You leave half of the children home when you shop, and people still ask if they're all yours.
- You own at least three sets of bunkbeds.
- Your grocery budget resembles your house payment.
- You just really wish people would not think they were clever for saying, "Don't you know what causes that?"
- You have forgotten how many times you have been asked, "Are you Mormon or Catholic?"
- When you see photos of castles and grand mansions, all you can think is how many bedrooms it has (YES!), and how much space all those other rooms provide for the kids to mess up (NO WAY!).
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21 Comments:
Great list, it really put a smile on my face.
Wonderful list. I love large families - but I knew my limits so I stopped at two. Congratulations to you and your hubby.
Happy TT!
What a great list! I've been gone so didn't see your news until today! Congrats on the new baby!
You know the comment I get is, you only wanted one? We always say, that's what God has given us!
Be blessed!
Wonderful! I have 3 children (grown) and my husband has 2 children (grown)...now, we have 7 1/2 grandchildren (one due in August)!! Bigger is always BETTER!! Happy TT
I can relate to MOST of the comments (I'm expecting #6). :) I'm afraid I drive buy massive homes in fancy neighborhoods (with really nice, big jungle gyms), and say, "Yeah, and I bet they only have 1 or 2 kids!" :)
I love this list. You know I'm just joking when I suggest a couple of more.
You know your a large family when:
You need two mini-vans for the family vacation.
You purchase liquid laundry detergent in a 55 gallon drum.
You get the "group rate" everywhere you go.
Have a great T13
Too funny! I can relate on a few of these things and I only have three!!!
Have a great day.
Valerie
http://homeschoolblogger.com/socalval
Ok, here's a couple of others that came to mind.
When the hostess at the restaurant asks, "How many?", your reply is, "Don't Ask!"
While on vacation, the locals think your family is a church youth group on a mission trip.
When traveling, you go to a restaurant and someone asks, "What tour are you with?"
To Funny Driller!!
But the flip side of this one...
You get the "group rate" everywhere you go..
is...
they automatically add the high gratuity for a large group at rester aunts! I protest and say we are one family not a corporate function.
does protesting the gratuity work? that just doesn't seem fair - the fact that you ARE one family is reason to NOT add it - mercy!!
We got the 'have you figured out what causes that?' when I was pregnant with #2. That's society for you. Actually, that was a church member. I don't know why people think that's funny :-/
Oh, and we live not by our limits but by the grace God supplies ;)
no, i never REALLY protest, I jut make a comment every now and then, they never do anything about it...because I would not ever push the issue.
Alicia- I love your last statement!
Yep, I know about that group rate.
Our daughter has 4 children, so there are eight of us counting her and her husband.
OK, here are my final thoughts, I promise.
You are a big family if you thought "Home Alone" was a documentary.
If you can relate to the breakfast scene in "Cheaper by the Dozen".
it is DEFINITELY not that chaotic around here!!! LOL!!!!
Thanks for the laugh. I sometimes forget just how different we must look to others, and that not every family thinks the way we do!
We don't have the chaos either, but nearly your entire list is everyday life for us.
Amen! I hear ya! I can relate to that list very well. LOL And we only have five so far!
I love your list!! I remember when Pontiac was advertizing their 7-passenger minivans "for the largest of families"...blew my mind, since we were expecting #6 then, and wouldn't have fit in it, right off the bat!
Honestly, the comments from other church members are the worst...I don't stick my nose into THEIR bedrooms, they have NO BUSINESS sticking theirs into mine...
Congrats on your newest addition!
Thats a great list!!!
Congrats again on baby #9!!
Love,
Crystal
www.homeschoolblogger.com/crysnrod
Aren't those lists fun to come up with? Check out my take - click "big family myths" under pages and then you know......
I love these types of lists.
I got one of those "Don't you know how that happens" comments from our HEAD deacon, whom I barely know. I was So embarrassed!
Our church recently made the rule that only parents (not siblings) must pick up the kids from Sunday School. So, you know you're a large family when it takes longer to gather all of the kids than it took to birth the kids!
Our church had that rule too, but had to make acceptions when my teenagers were working in the same room with the babies or toddlers. Then they agreed that my older ones could pick up the younger.
I relate to all of your list of course! I always love the question at the grocery store..."Looks like you are expecting company!"
Or when I got stopped by a patrol officer & he asked if I ran a daycare center because of my 15 passenger van. I just had to laugh & he still gave me a ticket!!
If one of my kids is in need of money they always know that they can sell something to a sibling. One son set up a lemonade stand in the kitchen and made enough money to buy a gift for someone. :o)
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