About to add to the party...

Sometime in the next month, we are adding more fun to the party around here. That's right, we are about to be a party of 5. Kids that is. I grew up in a large family (7 kids) and I thought it was a lot of fun, but after my first really difficult pregnancy I wasn't sure that I wanted so many kids anymore. My mantra became, "one at a time...one at a time". Well, after 4 kids and quite a few miscarriages I was done. I was giving away my maternity clothes and baby items. Four kids is quite a handful, especially when you have MS. But, surprise! We found ourselves with an unlikely pregnancy and it has taken clear up until now, my 9th month, to brace myself for it. 

A friend and I were talking about how family sizes have changed over the last generation. What was once a small family now seems large. Seven kids was large in my generation, but not that strange. Now it is newsworthy. We figure that if you double the amount of kids you have nowadays, it would equal what it would have looked like a generation or two ago. For example, a family with 3 kids now is quite large, being somewhat like what having 6 kids would have been not too long ago. So my 5 kids is like having 10 kids when our grandparents were doing it. Yeah. That feels about right. Slightly overwhelming. 

Luckily, we are trying to raise our kids more like our Grandparents raised theirs. So hopefully we will find success raising hard working, moral, contributing members of society. Just like Grandma.