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The large family sideshow act
Posted By katie allison granju
Now that I have four, yes, four children, I get it all the time (and I already got it some during the time when I had only three young children): lots of comments and opinions about my apparently prodigious fertility and my choice to exercise it.
So I got a kick out of Lindsay Ferrier’s (she’s the brains behind Suburban Turmoil)newest column for the Nashville Scene about her own experiences as the newly minted mother of four.
She writes:
It’s true that my husband worries from time to time that our older girls will feel like they missed out on the expensive vacations and nicer cars that inevitably would have come their way if we hadn’t chosen to add two more children to the family. Yet none of us can imagine life now without our youngest two. Besides, the Ferrier babies could have a huge impact on the older girls’ futures by making a more compelling argument for abstinence than I ever could.
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I guess I can while away all my boring nights at home coming up with snappy responses to the stupid questions I field all damn day. My readers have some ideas.
“My mom’s favorite [comment] was ‘How do you do it?’ ” recalls Sarah, one of five siblings, “to which she always responded: ‘In the dark, like everyone else.’ People used to give her looks to kill at that statement.”
And Meagan Francis has a great answer for the old, ‘Don’t you know what causes that?’
“Yes,” she likes to respond, “and it appears I’m getting more of it than you are.”
Dec 18th, 2007
