Greatest Joys in Raising a Large Family

By Ana Huron 
 

• I love hearing them sing together around the piano.
• I love watching them play “Mexican Train” and helping the youngest one learn to play.
• I love hearing laughter float down the hall from a bedroom because brothers and sisters are talking about their day.
• I love watching them go to the dollar store to buy birthday presents and excitedly hide them from the birthday person.
• I love it when we make shakes late on Wednesday nights after church.
• I love taking up 3 pews at church.
• I love it when the children make a human pyramid and fall down laughing.
• I love watching my twenty-one year old cuddle the two year old.
• I love it when the 13 year old reads to her brothers again and again and again….same book.
• I love going out on a date with my husband and knowing that everyone at home will be fine.
• I love watching braces come off!
• I love the glow in the eye of my daughter after she’s earned her driver’s license.
• I love it when people think my daughters are my sisters!
• I love it when people count us.
• I love hearing instruments being practiced all over the house.
• I love bunk beds.
• I love leftovers!
• I love it when the cashier asks if we’re having a party and we’ve only just purchased regular groceries. We always say, “Yes! We are having a party!”
• I love “buy-one-get-one-free”.