To all my friends with more than two kids. Rejoice!
Then read this.
You might get a kick out of it. In fact, read the comments - they show some insight into the type of people that want you to quit being so selfish and having more than your fair share of two.
Morons.
Okay, I'm going to forgo the fourscore smart-alecky comments I could make in deference to this real one:
ReplyDeleteWe Americans want the best for our children: Baby Gap, organic food, Ivy League educations. And in our pursuit of these things, we deny our children what will do them the most good, and in fact, what they really want: brothers and sisters.
I didn't make that up, by the way. I think it was Mother Teresa.
(Just ignore what those bickering kids in the background of this comment are screaming about the desirability of brothers and sisters...)
Too true. When I was expecting #3, a friend was also...she is part of the "environmentalist" crowd and got LOTS of negative comments from "friends" like: "You already have a boy and a girl, why would you go and RUIN the perfect family?". She was devastated and asked if I was facing the same kinds of questions. HAH! I told her, I am a member of a Catholic Homeschoolers group...They want to know why I'm such a Slacker!
ReplyDeleteHubby and I are curently trying to add another sibling (my girls are praying for twins so they can each 'have one' when I need to shower) Truth be told, I'd love twins, because I'd like two more and we are running out of time!
My friend "T" once said that she loves when people say that they would have had more children if they had more ROOM. She laughs, having raised 12 (8 boys) in a small THREE bedroom house!
They had bunk beds in the boys room with a third bunk added in the middle of the two traditional ones. It looks like a Navy ship, but the bedroom is JUST THAT...for sleeping, what a concept! She has two boys in the seminary, one Marine and a daughter married...and still has a few at home who ADORE each other. Her brother and his wife (also mambers of our Home School Co-op) have nine...the lazy bums! God Bless, E
I'm with Kalynne, of course. We have 6, and they all would be even better off if we had had more. The more you have, the less selfish they are.
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