Well, it seems our year of changes shall include yet another change. The addition of another little bundle of joy come December or so.
Wow.
I’m not actually sure how to express my thoughts, but maybe that is because I’m sleeping through most of them.
I have a garden to plant, chicken tractors to build, geese to prepare for and you don’t even want to know what my house looks like right now. Oh, and did I mention homeschooling?
And mentally, there’s something about six children that I can’t quite get my mind around. Maybe because I’m still imagining going into labor while snowed in without power in the middle of nowhere. A not-so-pleasant fancy aided along by my mom’s friend telling me about someone she knew being taken to the hospital on the paramedic’s snowmobile.
But I don’t even know anyone with a snowmobile.
Maybe I can borrow Mr. B’s tractor–his sprayer, since we are trying to learn what all this stuff is we see all around us every day now. We were watching it on the fields yesterday. I think it has enough clearance to go right over our minivan.
Or maybe I can just go get a hotel room for a month. Except hardly anyone has rooms to accommodate a family with five children, let alone six.
The children are excited. They have been arguing about whether the new little bundle should be a boy or a girl. They have finally come to an amicable agreement, however.
“Mom can just have twins! One of each! That’s fair, mom, right?”
“Yeah, sure. Whatever.”
Can you imagine?
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Congratulations!!! That is so exciting. Yes, twins would be nice.
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Wow!
Congrats!
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Congratulations! You can have a homebirth and then the “hospital” could come to you
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Yeah, but I fear that if I’m snowed in, they’ll be snowed out.
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Congratulations! 6 children seemed mathematically more than just 5 + 1 when I was trying to get my mind around being pregnant with #6 too:)
Yeah, here, too. I was talking to someone about seven the other day and it seemed like an exponential leap even from six which is sort of having a similar effect on my psyche at the moment.
It came out all wrong, though, and I felt like a dodo afterward. The way I said it, it sounded like I thought people with seven have problems. But I was thinking half of how you are viewed and half how the world just isn’t made for that.
We almost have to buy a bus now to get around. We have room in the minivan for this little bundle, but I’m not sure the minivan is going to live that long, and there aren’t that many 8 passenger cars on the market.
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We are also expecting our 6th in July.
It took me awhile to wrap my mind around it and I’m still not too sure I have comprehended the ramifications. LoL Most everyone we know think we’re nuts and compare us to the Duggars. 
We are excited and our children are thrilled and I know the Lord is pleased. That’s all that really matters!
Well, I said congrats last night, but I decided to delurk to say it here on the bloggery as well. CONGRATULATIONS!
Now going from 5 to 6 was not hard for me, as a matter of fact I thought the math was easier for the grocery shopping – it’s half a dozen. Simple enough. The hands down hardest thing for me (us) is the vehicle thing. We have a ’01 Suburban and all 8 of us fit in that, but our previous ’97 Windstar only held 7. I preferred the minivan to the suburban as the little ones could get in and out by themselves easier, but if we were all going places we had to take the suburban. The minivan turned belly up and we sold it to the junkyard just a few weeks ago. My husband drives his dad’s hand-me-down Lumina.
Things at our house are tight financially, like they are most places. When I was pregnant with #7 the number one biggest fear/adjustment/challenge for me to think about was a vehicle. There were no large used vans anywhere to be found for sale. I call my children My Six Pack – they are a hoot! Give the Six Pack a little shake and the fizzies spew forth.
Again, congratulations.
p.s. the hardest adjustment for me personally, was going from two to three.
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We had a Windstar too, but when we were expecting #6 we bit the bullet and bought a big Mamma 12 passenger Ford van. I love it!
Congratulations Dana, life with 6 is fun and frustrating, but you always have someone that needs you and someone to talk to. There is always a forehead to kiss, a hand to hold, and a child to reprimand.
As for hotel rooms, we have stayed at Comfort Suites quite a few times, they have 2 bedrooms and a middle room with a pull out sofa. The girls are in one room, the growups in the other and the boys get to camp out in the middle. Expensive, but we all fit.
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CONGRATS!!!! Adding more fun to the farm!
Three was tough. Not thinking about it, but once she was born. It actually got easier with my fourth.
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And thank you, everyone! We are very excited, if a bit nervous as well!
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Congrats, Dana.
Congratulations!
Dana, I haven’t been getting your feed updates since you moved your blog. Then today, I got 10… including this one. Congratulations. I just read a book about a family who adopted 12. They said somewhere that up until 4 parenting got harder when adding children. Then, every child made parenting easier. Perhaps they just had mellowed ~
Really? It’s working again? Wonder if it had something to do with the server issues that suddenly resolved themselves. I had no spam filter for awhile. Boy was that fun.
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congrats!! may the Lord bless you and your new little babe(s??)
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I offer you my sincerest congratulations.
Still, to be totally honest, being relatively the same age as you and having only two kids (the oldest turning 22 on his next birthday and already on his own), I can’t even begin to imagine having another baby.
Here I am waiting, very patiently mind you, for a Grandchild.
Life is weird.
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People seem to worry that homeschoolers are “brainwashing” their children, but I’m afraid it doesn’t work. I’ve been trying. Since they are very little, I tell them that when they are grow up they can get a house in town, marry a nice someone and have grandbabies for me to babysit and play with.
They seem to like the idea until they are about four or five and then go and get their own ideas. My eldest wants to move to Colorado and isn’t even sure she wants to get married.
Oh, and get this. My seven year old has this strange idea that he needs to talk to his wife before he commits to having children for me to play with. Where does he get an idea like that?
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Ah Dana, your seven year old thinks like my Mr 5! He knows who he wants to marry … he decided when he was 3, but hasn’t asked the delightful Miss 8 yet, thankfully. He now concedes that he’ll have to pray about it, and that she or the Lord may not will it to be so!! AND he wants 6 children (3 of each please, already named) but also said he’d take into account what she thought about family size!
Congratulations and thanks for sharing your news!
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Congratulations, hope to hear more and how the new baby actually comes to this world!
And yeap, those first months are like a sleeping pill for some, aren’t they?
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Blessings!! Yahweh will increase your strength, focus and stamina with ever child HE brings! HE knows how much you can handle, with HIS help. Lean on your Heavenly Father.
IN Messiah,
Navah/Teresa
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Congrats
All you moms of 6+ are making me look like a slacker, LOL! My DH keeps bringing up the idea of a 4th but I feel like I’m still getting adjusted to having 3.
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Congratulations on your blessing!!!!!!!!!!!!! We had grandbaby #14 last week. I still morn not being able to have babies but grateful for the ones I have.
You are so blessed.