How big a family did you come from?

[jennypekny]

I have 2 daughters and we want lots more!!! I came from a family of 3 brothers and 3 sisters. My Mom had 3 brothers and 3 sisters as well. Cool Huh?

 

[agzag]

I am #3 of 6 girls. No brothers. Before my youngest sister was born, I remember wishing she would be a boy. One of my older sisters actually cried when she found out Eva wasn’t a boy!

 

[Fitz]

There are seven in my family that I was born into, and I am in the middle. I have 4 children. I have many fond memories of growing up in a large family. We are all still very close.

 

[ohca]

I am the younger of two girls. I always wished for more siblings.

My kids won’t have that problem, as we are expecting baby number six in October! With this new little boy, we will have four boys and two girls. God is good!!

 

[Mijoy2]

wow, talk about a bell curve

 

[Ann_Cheryl]

There were four in my family. I have a sister and two borthers. My Husband also had four in his family a sister and two brothers.

I have five children. The youngest felt that he didn’t get as much attention as his brother because he was a good student who gave us no trouble was always on the honor roll of distiction even in college while his brother was flunking. The only thing that worked was home schooling which meant a lot of time was spent with him during 7th and 8th grade which the younger one envied. Ironically the other son hated and finally begged to return to regular school. They are both gone from home now. The youngest is finally having his parents undivided attention. He is in boot camp. I was told today in a letter to please write less since he cannot read everything. I have been writing a one page letter each day.

In reality, all the children know that they are each the center of our lives and always will be.

As the youngest, was I spoiled? In someways yes. My parents had more money and more at ease with parenting. However, my siblings had younger more vibrant parents.

 

[Carol_Theresa]

I’m the oldest of eight children (6 girls and 2 boys). My father died last August (at the age of 80). He had taken care of my mother when she was sick. She died 13 years ago. As my father’s health was deteriorating, my siblings (and myself) got together and worked out a weekly schedule to provide care for him so that he could get his wish…to live in their home until God called him to his eternal home. Well throughout my father’s illness, I often thought how Providential it was that God blessed my parents with 8 children (seeing how there are 7 days in a week…and one of our siblings lived out of state…we were there to help my Dad get his wish). Because of the sacrifices my parents made to raise a large family, I feel like God blessed them in return.

 

[LanceFan]

I am the oldest of 4. My mom is number 5 of 6 and My dad is the oldest of 4

 

[spetreopn]

I am the oldest of four. That seemed to me to be a big family, when I was going through public school. Then at my college, I discovered that this was not very large of a family. Many come from families with seven or more children. It was nice to see. Large families are truely a gift from God.

 

[J_Chrysostomos]

I was technically the oldest of four, but I was raised as the youngest child - my mother was a teenager at my birth and her parents raised me. (I refer to them as “Mom and Dad” and my mother by her first name.)

Ours is one of the bigger families in our little clan, but though I’m not Catholic I think the Church is right on with their view on contraception (as many Reformed folk are seeing now, or have seen for awhile).

 

[Lizard]

I’m an only child and only grandchild. My mother is 30 years older than I am, and she is actually the person in my family closest to my own age. I would love to have siblings and/or cousins.

 

[Dusty]

I have been blessed that both my parents and my husbands parents are all alive and healthy - so add 2 to each number if you are counting family vs siblings.

My husband is the youngest of 8 (4boys/girls)
I am the youngest of 6 girls.

My mom never called me the baby of the family because “you never know - anything’s possible with God” http://forums.catholic-questions.org/images/icons/icon7.gif I’ve always been and still am the “youngest so far” - in case you’re curious, I am 33 years oldhttp://forums.catholic-questions.org/images/icons/icon4.gif
And yes, to youngest children can marry happily - we’ll be celebrating our 10yr anniversary in the fall!

 

[Fortiterinre]

I am the oldest of only two, a child of the early 1970’s when contraception “hit big.” One of the best conversations I ever had with my mother before she died was about how she and my father fell into contraception and how differently she felt about it now!

 

[princz23]

I am the oldest of two children. I was raised Protestant and my Mom “took care of it” when I was 8 years old so I had no hope for more siblings. I now relish leaving God in charge of this area of our life. We have four children Rachel 8, Daniel 6, Isaac 6, and John 3. I turned 33 today and we’ve been told our chances of having another set of twins increases each year! I say, God, your will be done!

 

[Marys_daughter]

The older I get the more I hate it!

It’s particulary hard when I have a baby. I would just love to have a sister to come over and help me out!

Stephanie

 

[katie6]

Hi I am 3rd oldest of 12 We use to say all the names of the kids and then say on a seseme seed bun.Like the comercial for Mc Donalds I think. There is 2boys me(girl) 1 boy 1girl 3 boys 1 girl 2 boys and our precious princess Anne Marie. She is definitly the baby!!! We love her so much and she has her own fan club all of the 29 grandkids. She is actually leaving in July for a 1 year mission trip. We are reeally going to miss her. My husband came from a family of 5 3boys and 2 girls. We have six 5 boys and 1 girl( no she’s not the baby). When I was growing up we were the odd one’s in our parish. Only 2 other families like ours. I was embarrassed at the time, but now we love it and all our good friends and the cousins are all best buddies and everyone has someone to play with when we get together.
PS( I loved reading the 10.6 kids I thought that too…)

 

[magdalena]

I was the oldest of five children, I am 44, My husband is one of twelve children. We have nine children together, five girls and four boys. God has been so good to us, I just never knew I could love so much. Your heart just gets bigger with the birth of every child. I just felt like I could not say no to the gift of life, when everyone around me seems to have so much trouble conceiving. I think God also knew I would need a lot of purification.

 

[kristalyn]

Wow! What a neat thread!

I am the oldest of 4, my hubby is #2 of 4.

We have 5 (so far…)…

But my oldest boys (twins) play on a pony league baseball team that’s fun to watch:

my 2 (twin brothers, oldest of 5)
the coaches’ 2 kids (brothers, age 16 and 14, oldest of 3)
2 friends of theirs (brothers, middle 2 of 5)
another set of 2 brothers (middle 2 of 7)
another set of brothers (oldest 2 of 5)
and another friend of theirs (oldest child of 6)!!

We can have only 5 families show up for a game, and we have like 35 people in the stands!

 

[riabia]

I am the 5th of 7. There are 5 boys and 2 girls. I was three when my mom was pregnant with my sister (the youngest), and I was absolutely adamant that she would be a girl. I would get mad at anybody who suggested that she could be a boy! I even remember arguing with a great- aunt who lived next door about it. There was no way I was going to be the only girl with 6 brothers!

 

[Spatulate]

Ours is a Yours, Mine and Ours situation…Dad married in 1930 and had 6 kids, Mom married in 1946 and had 6 kids. The two families lived across the street from one another for a few years, but remained friends after Mom and her first DH moved a few blocks away.

In Feb. 1963, Mom’s husband died in a plane crash, and in October that year, Dad’s wife died of a brain tumor. They fell in love and married in Aug. 1964, and I was born three years later, followed by my little sister in 1969. When I was born, Dad was 59 and Mom was 40.