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Six is just right!Mar 10 '00 (Updated Mar 14 '00) Write an essay on this topic.My husband and I have four children together and yes they are biologically ours. I can't tell you how many times I've been asked this, oddly enough only when my husband isn't there with us too. I can sympathize with other moms with large families because you do get all kinds of questions posed to you, some silly, some downright personal. I remember when I had my first child a man in an elevator demanded I tell him if that baby was my little brother. I was quite young looking but still I felt this was very rude. I don't know, sometimes I like to answer peoples questions, I am proud of my family but I just wish they weren't quite so personal. I don't mind telling their ages but please don't act as if four children were the beginning of another country! I can tell you that at times it is hard to make time for each individual child and there are definite things we do without, money is tighter than it would be with just one or two children I think, but who really needs to have brand name clothing on a 6 or 10 year old. It isn't a necessity of life. Love and nuturing is. Raising a child up to have to share things is a good thing. I have found that as a child of four myself, I have been extremely blessed and I hope that my children grow up to look at there siblings with great affection and love. I have wonderful memories of car trips in our station wagon all bunched in. We had some great times, with even more to come with all our families combined! I'm not sorry we had to share rooms, toys, time on the Atari. As we all know life is not fair or easy out there in the world and I feel I was more prepared for it with my families support, love, acceptance, and understanding.  |
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