![]() ![]() Kelly says she’d love to move, but they never will because Gil hates change. Would you even move to be closer to your children, e.g., to Florida where Alyssa lives? Allie is a lot of Michaela, a fellow oldest daughter. All of the younger three share personality traits with Alyssa. Alyssa is incredulous, and thinks Lexi is the one that looks most like her. Zoey looks a lot like Alyssa as a child, Kelly says. Lawson and Gil are both “money cruncher,” always trying to get a deal.Īre any of Alyssa’s girls similar to her personality and looks as a child? ![]() Tori and Gil have the same sense of humor. Which of your children is most like you, and most like Gil?Īlyssa is so organized, like Kelly was in her “earlier years with kids.” Erin is a good planner like Kelly. She and Alyssa decide they’re going to travel together and leave their husbands at home. She talks about past vacations she really liked. Kelly “wants to go everywhere,” but Gil doesn’t like traveling. The oldest ones were expected to help out-but, she’s quick to say that they didn’t raise the younger ones, they just had “responsibilities.” “It was a lot of responsibility.” With the young children, they didn’t have to have so much responsibility, so she doesn’t have to be so strict. She says, at first, she had to be strict and organized “to survive” w/ so many children. Says she eats “for comfort” and her vice is “those sugary drinks.”Īre you less strict now with your younger kids, vs. Good (“great since my surgery”), but the doctors told her she needs to lose some weight. “But she was also the funnest personality. “Erin was very colicky and always crying.” Carlin wasn’t so difficult when she was a baby, but was a difficult toddler-very headstrong. Kelly doesn’t want to say, since the last time she commented about her ‘easiest baby’ she “made some siblings jealous.” Eventually, she says that the easiest were Alyssa and Josie, since they barely cried and were “so easygoing.” Most difficult were Erin and Carlin. Which of your kids were the toughest as babies, and which were the easiest? She’s asked this all the time, even by her own kids, and she always tells them, “I don’t have a favorite!” She enjoys spending time with each child, though the activities they do together varies based on that child’s personality and what they enjoy doing. Kelly: “Well, Warden is single right now.”Īlyssa: “Yes, he’s single! So… Good luck!” She wasn’t 100% sure, but said “most of them are 13–14 Months apart.” She and Alyssa eventually decide the smallest gaps must be Zach–to–Michaela, Lawson–to–Nathan, and Alyssa–to–Tori, while the largest gap is probably Ellie–to–Callie, due to miscarriages. What are your smallest and largest age gaps between kids? If you feel overwhelmed or feel you can’t teach a certain subject, reach out for help. What advice would you give to a new homeschooling mom? The last three were in the hospital with epidurals. Michael was in the hospital with “a shot of stadol.” The next fourteen were unmedicated home births. She says that Tori + Bobby haven’t chosen a name for their baby that’s on the way.ĭid you have natural births, or were they medicated? She named them family by family, starting with Zach, and managed to name everyone except Zade. She said that she could name them all, just not in order. She couldn’t, and joked about having dementia. She found it hard to even leave the house to grocery shop, since she had to bring all three babies with her wherever she wanted to go.Ĭan you name all your grandchildren in order? When Erin was born, she had 3 Under 3 and Gil worked all the time. ![]() What was the hardest season of motherhood for you? “You can give them a cardboard box to play with and they’ll be happy.” With a toddler, there are no tough decisions. Parenting older children and adults is harder because they’re going through a period of making important life decisions. What’s harder-parenting toddlers, or parenting adult children? Also, it happened several times with the flu. There was a time they all got chicken pox, which was particularly awful. When one child got sick, did all of them get sick? She had some nausea with the others, but it ended at Week 12. ![]() She had morning sickness with actual vomiting only with Zach. Did you experience morning sickness during pregnancy or difficult times with small children? ![]()
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