Large Families are Tons of Fun!

I am so grateful Heavenly Father has blessed us with a relatively, large family!  I'm so grateful baby nine is on the way!  We have so much fun together!  Homeschooling allows us to enjoy being together all the time!  We love it!!!!

Mother Teresa said, “Children are like flowers.  You can never have too many of them.”

We share this sentiment.  

We are all children of God.  Before we came to earth we lived with our Heavenly Father as His spirit children.  We rejoiced in the opportunity to come to earth to receive physical bodies created in His image. Of course, that requires being born.   We are partnering with God as we provide bodies for these precious, children of God.  We are honored to help as many spirits as we can to obtain their earthly bodies.  We are blessed to have these dear, sweet souls join our eternal family.  We welcome them with loving arms.  Our children are our greatest treasure and joy!  They are worth any sacrifice!

Our children are one another’s dearest friends!  They are inseparable!  Our house is a constant party!!!   While there is an epidemic of loneliness in many countries our children are surrounded by a huge family who cheers them on, waits for them, plays with them, and in short adores them.  We are together 24/7 and thrive on it!  Our home is filled with laughing, tickling, chasing, and joyful chaos.  As I am answering this question our five youngest and our huge dog are tearing around the house, yelling, and having the time of their lives.  Boredom never exists here!  There is always someone with whom to talk, play, or cuddle.

We lived in a large home for a couple of years, but we discovered something unexpected. We really only used the kitchen and large dining room.  We lived in those rooms.  We did all our homework, projects, reading, cooking, eating, planning, etc. in one big open kitchen and dining room.  The whole family gravitated to each other.  We would ask the teenagers, “Why don’t you go study upstairs or in your room where it is quiet?”  They would just say, “No, it doesn’t bother me.”  They wanted to be with everyone else and just be apart of the constant commotion. 

  Our kids feel terrible for only children! Or even for kids who only have one or a few siblings. Our house really feels like a constant party! It is filled with love from basement to attic! The Lord has given us such joy!