10 Best Things About A Big Family
There’s a huge supply of helping hands to get a project done, or complete a harrowing day’s schedule. Dividing and conquering is much easier with many people.
Our House is Like Grand Central Station. At any given time we have at least some portion of our kids home, at least some percentage of their friends here, possibly some caregivers or other house angels, and a partridge in a pear tree. Ashley had to come back early once when we were in Hawaii and her comment was “it’s way too quiet here. Like TOO quiet.”🤷♀️
The potential for borrowing clothes and shoes is amazing and practically limitless.
Our calendar is so incredibly ridiculously full that we absolutely must have weekly meetings to dissect all of it’s intricacies for the week. It’s sub- benefit is that it gives Andrew and I a chance to connect with them and hear what everyone is up to.
Watching the friendships develop between my kids. Some nights Andrew and I are in bed late at night and I can hear my teens laughing and telling stories downstairs in one of their bedrooms.
It’s never boring at our house. Ever. If one of them is mad at someone else, there is always another person around to hang out with. There’s always someone to watch a movie with. There’s always homework help available. There’s always someone around to pay if you’re too lazy to make your own lunch. There’s always someone to run to Target with. There’s always someone to bake cookies with. There’s always someone to French Braid your hair. There’s always someone up for going TP-ing on a Friday night. (Just kidding, we would *never* do that…..)
They go to a Private K-12 School, and so they bump into each other throughout the day, so they can lend each other money for snacks, or borrow a sweatshirt, or whatever.
*They are very different from eachother, so it gives them the opportunity to learn how to get along with other personality types, and see that different people see life differently and learn how to compromise.
*Of course they have their sibling cat fights. But at the end of the day, they care about eachother. Like, really truly care. There’s always a small tribe of people who have their back.
*When Andrew and I pass on, they will still have eachother, and that brings me so much joy and peace.