Best and Worst Wednesday

You know you have a large family when...

...your children feel sorry for families with only six or seven children.
...people ask if you're competing with the Duggars.
...even your friends aren't sure how many children you have.
...your family no longer fits in a 15 passenger van.
..complete strangers feel welcome to comment on your fertility and contraceptive methods.
...two of your daughters go for a walk...and get asked by a neighbor if they're foster kids.
...you have to carry three health insurance cards in your wallet- because that's how many it takes to fit everyone's name.
...you take the wrong child to the dentist...simply because your handwriting on the calendar was messy and both started with a "j".
...grocery shopping for 30 children and 12 adults for a two day camp constitutes a "small" shopping trip for you.
You find yourself relating some small incident to your husband and starting with the words, "Well, I only boiled twenty-six eggs for breakfast..."
...you buy a 40 pound box of bananas intending to make banana bread and freeze a bunch for smoothies...but your children eat them all first.
...you find an afternoon root canal relaxing.
...it takes you twenty-three minutes on the phone to schedule your children's dental appointments.
...you've given up on using your toaster entirely and make all of your toast under the broiler in you oven.
...you are seriously tempted by the stacking cribs you see at Goodwill for $19.99.
...you find yourself thinking, "Wow, the house is so quiet and peaceful with only nine children".
...you have enough children to constitute not one, but TWO large families.
...you have a laundry basket devoted entirely to lonely socks seeking their mate.
...when you got to buy your children those cool "spin toothbrushes" because you think they get their teeth so much cleaner...but the store doesn't carry enough styles/colors for your children to each have a different toothbrush.
...when you can't take all of your children to the doctor's office at the same time because the waiting room has only 10 seats.
...when you still have seven children that are required by law to sit in a carseat or booster seat.
...you call the doctor to get your children tetnus shots, and they tell you they don't have enough in the office and need to order more from the health department.
...you take up more than one entire pew in church.
...you take only half of your children to the library, and STILL get asked if they're all yours.
...you go to fill your children's flouride prescription at the phamacy and you clean them out of every pill they have...and it's still not enough.
...you spend sixty dollars on socks...and not everyone gets new socks.
...you go shopping at Costco and the cashier asks if you're having a soccer barbecue.

November 09, 2011

Best part about Apollo's new sweater? It's done, it fits, and it's adorable!

Worst part? It took me three tries to get the button band done correctly and no, I will not link to the pattern because it was a nightmare.

Best part about Adalia's latest birth? She was called yesterday morning, so no middle-of-the-night hospital runs.

The worst part? The baby hasn't been born yet!

Apollo's pants literally fall down if he isn't wearning a cloth diaper, so he's in the habit of pulling them up!

Best part of Apollo waking every two hours at night? I'll likely already be awake when I get called for my next birth...

Worst part? Sleep deprivation has the same effect on a person as being legally drunk (without, unfortunately, the upside of being giddy and thinking I'm clever and witty).

Best part of installing Mr. Linky last week? It worked!

Worst part? Only two people used it :)

If you choose to do a Best and Worst Wednesday on your blog, please link back to me. Then we'll all be connected through some cosmic-soul-blogging-rainbow-world-peace-movement. Or something.

If you don't have a blog, feel free to share your best and worst in the comments below.

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