Big Families

[hopeful1]

the things i miss as an only child

[ilovechrist]

there are somethings that u need to be GLAD u miss as only child hopeful1!!!! the fam can be great at times.. but as my sis just explained.. sometimes the knives come out into play

[Laudate_Dominum]

[quote name='Norseman82' date='Apr 2 2004, 12:34 PM'] Why is the theme from "The Partridge Family" going through my head all of a sudden? [/quote]
I can't stand that show. But I know quite a few large Catholic families (8 or more children) who are "musical families", meaning all of the kids are good musicians, some even have a family band. I think that is really cool. If I ever have kids I would like to teach them music from an early age.

[Rebirth flame]

wow... i'm not neccessarily in a big family, but i do hail from a family with 5 boys, a mom, and a dad. It can be kinda weird at times for me, cuz my 2 oldest brothers are both 30 and married and have kids, and my other 2 brothers are adopted (not to sound raceist or whatever, cuz this is the way it is, but they're both African Americans, and my family is all caucasian).

my general childhood grew up being very very competitive for me, because my youngest brother (one of the adopted two) also had a skin disease which was something like he only has 2 or 3 layers of skin as oppossed to the normal 5 or something. So i was always competing with him for the "youngest child" position.

it turns out that this brother of mine had also been doing drugs and stuff, and he was plotting to kill myself and himself. Needless to say, he, unfortunately, does not live with us anymore, for obvious behavioral reasons.

i thought that my life was gonna get better from that point, but it didn't, cuz i still hadn't found Christ. instead, some of my brother's deppression rubbed off on me, and i was just absolutely miserable for the next few years of my life.

then, in 7th grade, i had a really cool, profound experience with the Eucharist during my confirmation mass, right after i had been confirmed. So i've started to build my faith off of that experience, and the Eucharist has become the most important thing for me in my life. lol, my post name is Rebirth flame because of the reawakening i felt of my Fire through my confirmation.

[font="Geneva"]i realize that you asked for big family life, and that i got kinda off the beaten path, but my fingers just started flyin' on the computer, and i couldn't stop them...[/font]

[cmotherofpirl]

That is an awesome post, whether its on topic or not.

[Colleen]

[quote name='Laudate_Dominum' date='Apr 2 2004, 10:42 PM'] I can't stand that show. But I know quite a few large Catholic families (8 or more children) who are "musical families", meaning all of the kids are good musicians, some even have a family band. I think that is really cool. If I ever have kids I would like to teach them music from an early age. [/quote]
One of my good friends is the oldest of 9 (8 girls and 1 boy!). Her dad is the leader of their family band -- and all the kids sing or play instruments in it!

[WCC_Catholic]

i have a large extended family but i want a large fam when i get married. i want to adopt some