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Tuesday, November 29, 2016
Friday, November 18, 2016
You Know You're a Large Family Mom When....
First things first, I personally think that 8 children and up constitutes a Large Family. But most people I encounter seem to think our 5 kids are enough to earn us that label, so for all intensive purposes of having fun with this post, we'll be one.
You know you're a Large Family Mom when....
1) You accidentally slide your 3 month old off your hip as if she is a standing toddler. (Don't worry, I caught her...sort of...)
2) The baby can't yet distinguish whether she is getting yelled at, or someone else is.
3) It's a great day when you only have 2 loads of laundry to do.
4) You wait until 6 months to give your baby solids, mostly because you don't want to deal with real, stinky poop.
5) When a child is crying, you tell them to go cry somewhere else. Unless they are bleeding, of course.
6) You encourage Pajama Day, it equates to less laundry!
7) You've tried to jam a kid into someone else's clothing on more than one occasion.
8) You just park in the back of every parking lot so your kids can take as much space as they need to unload and load. And to lessen the chance of someone's else's car getting hit with your doors.
9) Unlike 1st time parents who are eager to call every milestone out as soon as their baby does anything close to it, you are actively trying to DISCOURAGE crawling, standing, walking, basically moving of any sort. It's just more work for you.
10) You can do damn near anything one-handed with a baby either on your breast or on your hip...
And now for some random pictures from the last 2 months:
You know you're a Large Family Mom when....
1) You accidentally slide your 3 month old off your hip as if she is a standing toddler. (Don't worry, I caught her...sort of...)
2) The baby can't yet distinguish whether she is getting yelled at, or someone else is.
3) It's a great day when you only have 2 loads of laundry to do.
4) You wait until 6 months to give your baby solids, mostly because you don't want to deal with real, stinky poop.
5) When a child is crying, you tell them to go cry somewhere else. Unless they are bleeding, of course.
6) You encourage Pajama Day, it equates to less laundry!
7) You've tried to jam a kid into someone else's clothing on more than one occasion.
8) You just park in the back of every parking lot so your kids can take as much space as they need to unload and load. And to lessen the chance of someone's else's car getting hit with your doors.
9) Unlike 1st time parents who are eager to call every milestone out as soon as their baby does anything close to it, you are actively trying to DISCOURAGE crawling, standing, walking, basically moving of any sort. It's just more work for you.
10) You can do damn near anything one-handed with a baby either on your breast or on your hip...
And now for some random pictures from the last 2 months:
He's cute.
She's cute.
She's cute.
And they're cute!
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