21 Sep 2008
by Tanesha
Have you guys ever watched Jon and Kate Plus 8? It is a semi-reality type show that comes on the TLC channel. The cameras guide the audience through the life and times a couple (Jon and Kate Gosselin) plus 8 - (8 children a set of twins - age 7 and a group of sextuplets - age 4) Needless to say… 8 children under the age of 10 all in one house… every minute is filled with adventure, joy, mayhem!
I am not really interested in spying in on the lives of others. I have enough adventure, joy, mayhem within my own family. But every now and then, I check out an episode of Jon and Kate Plus 8… and each time I tune in I love it.
There is a similar show that comes on the Discover Channel. Meet the Duggars - 17 children and one on the way. Ok I have nothing negative to say about the Duggars. They seem to be a very happy, well adjusted family. But in the cynical words of my DH… they are just a little too kipper to be believable. How can everything be so happy, so orderly, and so peaceful in a house of 17 kids? I just don’t see it. Now granted the Duggars kids are spread out over 18 or 20 years (and all of the Gosselin kids are still kids)… But still… things can’t be that kipper with 17 kids, a man and his pregnant, hormonal woman in one house.
The Gosselins seems to be a bit more real. I especially like the sit down chats with Jon and Kate. They tell it like it is. Their world does not seem sugar coated. They disagree, they complain, they agree that having so many kids is not easy… yet it is also obvious that they love and enjoy their children and love each other.
Anyway, the other day my daughter and I were watching an episode of Jon and Kate Plus 8 and she asked me would I like to have 6 babies at one time. Well that one was easy to answer… Absolutely not! Then she threw me a curveball. She said what would I do if she was part of sextuplets. Uhhhh… yeah cute.
**sigh** I had to be honest with her. I said baby, I love you but… (yes there is a but…) if your were a part of a sextuplet, I would have to give you and all of your brothers and sisters away.
My daughter got a little bothered by my response. I guess she was expecting a difference answer. I tried to cajole her by telling her that she would not be away, away. I have a huge family. My grandmother had 13 children… 10 girls and 3 boys. I would give one baby to 6 of my aunts as an early Christmas present.
That may sound un-motherly, but 6 babies… at one time… seriously folks, I would go insane. The babies would be better off with my aunts than with a mentally unstable me.
Fortunately… for my sanity… this was only a hypothetical question.
My hat goes off to the Gosselins… cause there is no way I could do it. I really would go nuts.
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