A point of view from different perspective.

I am the 4th of 5 children. My partner is the 1st of 5 children. We both enjoy coming from bigger families. Both our families also fostered children at different times and for different periods of time. We had 8 kids for about 6 months!

The older kids help out with the younger kids at different times, and i enjoyed the company of some of my siblings more at times than some of the others, and then i had different 'favourites' at other times.

Now we are grown ups, we all have great realationships, and there is always someone to go to for conversation or help with different things.

Both my partner grew up 'poor', possibly bc of having so many kids but we never felt we missed out and appreciate having things now. Kinda funny but we also don't want our kids to have 'everything' even though we are in better financial sitch than our parents. We want them to enjoy making cubbies out of the couch and a blanket, and be creative with finding entertainment out of 'nothing'.

take care,

Kate