I just wanted to post an intro and say hi. I have posted here before as Christi_Mom10, now _Mom11 hoping sonn to up that to _Mom12
. I am 33 and have giving birth to my 11 kiddos, we are TTC#12. I have a good friend who posts here, Karenpl. My DH Dave is 37 and we live in Southern California. We have 6 girls and 5 boys thus far, we hope for a few more kiddos. I just wanted to say hi to everyone!!!
Christi Mama to 11, TTC #12.
Wow! Welcome! It must be lots of fun at your house! I am one of 5 and am so grateful. I don't think we'll be having more than 2 or 3, but just think how you'll be surrounded by family forever!
Beautiful family!
Christi.................I would love some of your best tips for big families. I have always dreamed of having a very large family. I would also like to adopt or do foster care. How do you manage groceries? School? Organization? Bathes?
I grew up going to school with a family of 17, no twins, and no stepkids! My friends Wendi and Dave have 10 under 13, and my friend Audrey has 10 ranging in age from 22 down to 2.
We have two so far, working on adopting next year and then TTC again after the adoption. I love talking to moms who have large families, as we hope to have a large family as well.
we are planning on TTC soon for #6. I would love to have a REALLY big family but unless we have a couple sets of twins it won't happen. I'm 32 and dh is almost 37. Do you get any grief from family for having such a large family? Everyone tells us 5 is enough and we don't have enough space for more(we have 4 bedrooms too, but are slowly building a 7 bedroom house).
Hello! I just wanted to say hi and that I look forward to learning a lot from this forum and especially from mothers like yourself. I would love to have a larger family, but all things in due time. Your family is beautiful!!!
: & welcome back! You have such a gorgeous family! I hope to get to know you like the others. We all could learn so much from you! What an awesome & inspiring family!
Do you enjoy your pregnancies? I found mine to be... um, challenging. Not terrible, but not WONDERFUL like I'd always dreamed about. So, I have two beautiful girls and that's it. Have you ever heard of the magazine, "Above Rubies"? I'm guessing you have... but if not, you would LOVE it. They are very pro-large family. I looked at a couple of your pictures. Your family lookes lovely. Welcome to the boards.
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