Family sizes

So my oldest son brought home a “My kindergarten friends” book detailing the kids in his class. While going through it with him, I was very surprised by the number of large families in the class.

  • 3 families with 3 members
  • 8 families with 4
  • 2 families with 5
  • 4 families with 6 (including ours)
  • 1 family with 7
  • And 2 with 8!

Now obviously this wasn’t a “scientific” study, and who knows who all was considered “in my family” but still, I was surprised to have 7 families (out of 20, 35%) of 6 or more!

I’m used to the “Miller family freakshow”! I’ve made mention before that when we go out in public, we typically get one of 3 reactions:

  • From young couples or older folks it’s “Awww how cute”
  • Young families with kids it’s “How do you manage 4 kids?!?”
  • No-kid havers it’s “Look at that freakshow!”

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Comments (2) left to “Family sizes”

  1. Carolyn wrote:

    I love being a freak show. Just wait till we have 15 kids. Then won’t we freak them all out!?

  2. carey wrote:

    Y’all could always shortcut it and go the fertility drug route like those people on TV, and have 4-6 kids at once!

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