13 children

If you are wondering what it is like to live with 13 children, here is a glimpse.

• Meal times are utter chaos!! By the time we get all the plates made for the children and get ready to sit down for our meal, the children are ready for seconds!! We have started not even making our plates until seconds are dished out. 17 people eat A LOT!!
• I am not sure that the washer and dryer have stopped working since we have arrived.
• The noise level can be overwhelming at times.
• There is always someone to play with.
• There is always someone to fight with.
• We have to take two vehicles everywhere. It is quite an art, each time we go somewhere, to make sure that no one is being left behind. Before we can pull out we always have to communicate with the other vehicle.....Who do you have or how many do you have? It makes me laugh all the time.
• I wish I had started counting the day we arrived how many paper products we would go through!!!! I am sure we are responsible for killing at least three big trees....maybe more.
• Movies are wonderful!!!
• I consider it a miracle each night, when they are ALL asleep!
• When one wakes up.......they ALL wake up!!
• There is always someone to help with the little ones.

Honestly, I never thought that it would go so well. The children really do get along with each other. I almost hate going home where my children will start fighting with each other again!!