Maybe I won’t manage to be mom to many, but I sure hope I will, and it’s great to hear some encouragement from those who have done it, and whose kids (the most important ones) ain’t complaining!

~Stefanie

Your family is beautiful. My bigger kids ask a few times a week for more siblings – all of our kids are such a huge gift to each other – and they seem to know it. We would love to have a bigger family someday, too.

Seriously, I grew up in a big family (7 kids) and loved every minute of it. I hope to have my own large family someday.

If you think our hands are full, you should be reading Erin’s blog!

But I imagine you must have gotten comments like these, though, even before you began adopting.

Let me tell you that with most of the large families I know, the parents are just as good, if not better parents than the families I know with only one or two children.

That probably a huge understatement. Maybe I hold you guys on too high of a pedestal, but I kind of figure that parents in large families are generally much better parents (and spouses) than the average family with one or two kids. I’d really like to see the divorce rate of parents with 4+ kids compared with 1 or 2. I’d bet it’s insanely lower in the larger families.

I could sense your heart and soul!