Monday, January 27, 2014

You may have 4 or more kids IF....

Our mod family of six...making 4 kids the new black. 

You too might have 4 or more kids if:

1.  Your house will never look like a page out of the pottery barn catalogue.  As a matter of fact, you shoot for the look of a nice children's museum and usually end up with a semi-cleaner daycare center look.
2.  When you have a birthday party for 1 of your kids you plan on paying extra at any party place for said child's friends because your other kids take up half the child allotment.
3.  You go to the bathroom unannounced and feverishly racing to lock the door before a kid gets in.
4.  It takes you 15 minutes just to get kids into the car.  between coats, shoes, car seats, stuck belts, clothes miss-buttoned, lost shoes, socks.  15 minutes at least.
5.  Sleeping arrangements get sketchy...at best.  As a matter of fact, you just go into the night planning on getting woken up 8 times and if anything less happens it's a nice surprise!
6.  When one gets sick, you might as well contact the CDC because when it spreads to the rest of  your family, and it will, it is enough to be considered an epidemic.
7.  You all the sudden relate to the stories you watch on national geographic about the wondering mother's pictured half naked with child attached to the breast.
8.  The cold meals you used to have when having 2 kids sounds amazing now that you usually end up with your sick son's leftover burnt toast crust.
9.  You find yourself pointing out the automatic features on the van you drive (that you said you would never drive) to your friends with enthusiasm "look at that automatic trunk release! YEAH!".
10.  you find yourself counting your kids in a panic whenever you go somewhere, leave the house, having a meal because you are never quite sure if you've forgotten one.
11. you suggest the game hide and seek, just so you can be the one to hide so you get a good 10 minutes of alone time.
12. You.are.late.  Even if you are an "I'm never late" er.  you are late.  "where are my shoes?" "I peed my pants" "the dog just vomited on my shirt!"
13.  Unless your own parents are in town you rarely go on a date since a babysitter will cost the amount of a small car payment.
14.  You've sent your kid to school without an article of clothing on at least once...just purely as an oversight. 
15.  You have so many night lights on in your house at night that it can be confused as daylight.
16.  When you had 2 kids people always said "oh you have your hands full" and "you DO know how this happens right?".  Now they just hand you condoms. 
17.  The shoe pile at your house is bigger than payless' clearance section.
18.  Your last couple children were a real blessing because they were born in the same season as their sibling of the same gender...hand me downs!  HOLLA!
19.  The health insurance company starts messing up your children's birthdays and you second guess yourself as to if they are right or you are right.
20.  Getting a family portrait taken is equated to a root canal.  Without numbing. 

You may find you are always short on time, short on space, and short on patience but you  never feel short on love.