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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I have 7 babies. 4 DD’s ages 4,9,12,17 and 3 DS’s ages 7,13 & 15 and one thing that really bothers me is comments in public when we’re all out about how many kids we have, about how we do it, why we had that many, etc. We’ve gotten a lot of rude comments and looks. It’s summer now so we get more. I know it’s expected and most people are curious and don’t mean any harm but it’s really annoying and feels invasive. We’re just a typical UMC family, not rich or anything, and have just had a bit more kids than most others.[/quote]
I’m staring with mildly horrified fascination and thanking my lucky stars I’m not you.  :lol: [/quote]

Seriously. How do you keep everyone fed? Someone must be hungry, not everyone can get as much as they need with 9 people to feed at every meal. Is the dishwasher going constantly? The laundry? How do you make it to the kid’s back to school nights? How do they get to sports/activity practice?[/quote]

What?  
I have four kids and my in-laws live with us.  All eight of us have enough to eat at every meal.  Usually I make a side in the crockpot, we have bread, and my 11 year old son makes a salad.  Then I cook some kind of meat in the oven or on the grill.

I do three loads of laundry a day.  Kids and my in-laws fold their own mostly, but they don’t wash it.  It’s too much to schedule it.  
We have two dishwashers that we run every day.

Everyone gets to their stuff.  My daughters do dance, which is pretty intense, but we do it.

My husband and I are both doctors.  I have a small outpatient clinic with a friend from residency.  I work about 20 hours/wk.

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You have four adults living in your house and two dishwashers in your kitchen and you can’t imagine why people think this set up requires a lot outside the norm? I guess critical thinking wasn’t required in med school. [/quote]

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