Blessed With a Large Family
This is a wonderful article by a mother of nine, Kellie Davis:
I had planned on writing and publishing an article today to tell you all about Eastern Orthodox Pascha, but I have been looking at the pictures I took and decided that I’ll do better to paint them in watercolors and chalk pastels than to merely upload pictures. I’m a watercolorist and such a wonderful service followed by a fast breaker and a feast is better served with the warmth of these two mediums.
Today I am discussing large families. The internet has been abuzz with stories of The Duggars, John and Kate, and the now-infamous OctoMom. In all honesty, I don’t watch the show about the Gosslins, and I only know of the Druggars through FARK. I feel sorry for the OctoMom because I think she is in way over her head and is now unable to make a right decision and make anyone happy.
I have a large family and for this reason, I will not watch the shows that portray “us.” I have friends with just one or two kids, but my effort is not greater than theirs. I have more, but they put in just as much time with their kids as I do, but they are less spread out.
I think that having a large family is great. I love my children, but I feel like the women who get portrayed on TV see themselves as nothing more than being mothers. (OK, I have watched the shows but I don’t make a habit of it.) There is nothing wrong with only being a mother, but eventually the kids grow up. I hope my kids don’t have children before they finish college. I look religious when I am not being public, OK? I think that it’s assumed that I think the world is 10,000 years old and that the world is flat when this isn’t the case. Such is life, let people underestimate me. I study a few languages on the side and enjoy reading of languages and wines, art and philosophy. I am a letter writer, an amature chef. Don’t get me wrong, I cannot work outsode the home because my chidlren need me, but I am not limited. I am a mother, I am a writer, I am an artist, I am a college student. I am a Rennaisance Woman.(This link is ultra conservative, but I am a Rennaisaance woman; I can still be grateful for our two party system and appreciate what can be achieved with it!)
Read more: http://www.examiner.com/x-7080-Anchorage-Family-Examiner~y2009m4d20-Blessed-with-a-large-family
