Re: Lorene & Marilyn...How many kids do you have.....

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Where are you going to be in about two years Marilyn? Maybe you can homeschool my little girl.

Austin

LOL! I'm sure that if you want to homeschool her, you will be the PERFECT teacher, Austin! All you need to start is love and a willing heart. The rest will come. Marilyn Worried about job security? Check out the 5 safest jobs in a recession.

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Hey Melaine,

Wow your family has really grown. Congratulations ! I remember before the first adoption. Wow... I'm getting old. Lol

How is everone?

    Jules

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> > > We have an Expedition and a 2600 sq. ft. home.> >> > Lori> >OMG ... you guys are hilarious ... I love the large family discussion! I am ... we have a large family ... I have two homegrown ... hubby has two home grown ... and we have adopted 13 ... 3 of which have earned thier angel wings ... five of our children at home have Down syndrome 10, 7, 6, 4, 3 ... the other five at home are 18, 10, 9, 8, 7We take 18, 10, 9, 8, 7, 4 year olds to the movies every weekend and out-to-eat ... yes ... we DO get those stares!I am definitely wayyyyyyyyyyy spoiled ... as I have 2 front loading washers & dryers ... three refrigerators and 1 freezer ... My house is wayyyy to big also ... We do not even use parts of it ... except for storage ... we lived in a 4br 2ba 2200 sq ft house & built a 9000 sq ft 9 br 6 ba home ... It is AWFUL to clean! I wish I only had three bathrooms most days! The more room you have ... the more you have to clean!!! YUK! AND the more the kids can mess up!

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I've been enjoying all of the big family discussion and just had to chime in.

We have eleven, ages 24 down to 3. Two are married and working, 1 is engaged on

a 5 month mission in Guyana, 1 in college, 2 in high school, 5 are still

homeschooling, we have a 21 year old girl living with us attending our local

community college, and 2 foreign exchange students (boys from Thailand and

Portugal). We usually have at least 12 for dinner (22 last Saturday).

My husband and I went to Chile for nine days and our 23 year old son and his

wife moved into the house to run the show for us. They did a great job, and I

loved 's perspective. " Now I know how you do it, you have to be selfless

ALL the time! My make up and hair routine went out the window on day one! "

Gabe(3) gets around the clock " therapy " with all of the family, friends,

interaction, and love. Yesterday our two exchange students were vying for play

time with him--reading books, playing on the slide, throwing balls.

--northern Wisconsin

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wow ...My SO is from thialand ,,,he hmong .....Great cutluture...I myself portugeese ... My grand mother was born over there ...It must be great ot learn about the different culuture and language .....

Subject: [DownSyndromeInfoExchange] Re: Lorene & Marilyn...How many kids do you have.....To: DownSyndromeInfoExchange Date: Monday, March 30, 2009, 12:26 PM

I've been enjoying all of the big family discussion and just had to chime in. We have eleven, ages 24 down to 3. Two are married and working, 1 is engaged on a 5 month mission in Guyana, 1 in college, 2 in high school, 5 are still homeschooling, we have a 21 year old girl living with us attending our local community college, and 2 foreign exchange students (boys from Thailand and Portugal). We usually have at least 12 for dinner (22 last Saturday).My husband and I went to Chile for nine days and our 23 year old son and his wife moved into the house to run the show for us. They did a great job, and I loved 's perspective. "Now I know how you do it, you have to be selfless ALL the time! My make up and hair routine went out the window on day one!"Gabe(3) gets around the clock "therapy" with all of the family, friends, interaction, and love. Yesterday our two exchange students were vying for play time with him--reading books,

playing on the slide, throwing balls.--northern Wisconsin

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It's a great experience and we are blessed with two really great guys who just

join right in with the family. They are very open and will share their

perspective, but they want to be a part of our home and culture, too. We told

them from day one they are part of the family. They help with housework, make

their own lunches, have family devotions with us, everything. My husband

introduced them as his " sons " last weekend and I think they were both thrilled.

> wow  ...My  SO is from thialand ,,,he hmong .....Great cutluture...I myself

portugeese ... My  grand mother was born over there ...It must be great ot learn

about the different  culuture and language .....

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We have a 2500sq ft house (a converted barn) on 44 acres and

drive a custom built ford truck/RV van type of thing. It has two seats in the front

and a bench in the back that folds down into a bed. We also have a 6 passenger

truck.

The “family” car is the Truck/Van. We used to have

an 18 passenger bus before we moved from CA to OK, but we didn’t drive

that thing out here.

Our house in California was 1800 sq. ft on 2 ½ acres. Smaller,

but in some ways we had more room, since it had more rooms.

In our house now the boys share half the upstairs (their big

room) and the girls share the other half (well, more than half actually J). We have 2 baths, a huge kitchen,

and about a 900sq. ft living room. The huge living room is one of the best

things about the house since we have lots of barn dances here (my sister &

I teach the kids my mom homeschools & our other homeschool friends line

dances) and family & friends over ALL the time. Our house is always in

action, almost always has someone over.

Qadoshyah

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We do the goats for milk. We’re just starting a garden/orchaged

.. . . have only been here 7 months, so can only do so much in that time frame!

We slaughtered a couple hogs yesterday with my cousins, so we

have half a pig in the freezer now J. Yum! We’ve slaughtered a few goats and some chickens too, but

they aren’t near as good as home grown pig.

Living off the land is awesome and so much cheaper, especially

when you have a big family who goes through food like nothing.

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we

have 15 waiting for the next one - update is done - we only do medical special

needs, babies and little ones no one else want to take

( not catholic - hubby came from fam of 16, I came from a family of 5 but

we wanted a large family - said I would quit at 25, that would be 10 more

adoptions

and not so sure anymore - 11 are birth and 4 are special needs adoptions girls

are ahead by 1 -

32g,31g,30g, 28b,26g,26g,25g,22b,21b,19b,17b,( 3 in heaven b,g, 11b,7g,7g,5b

the bottom six are at home

yet 13

grandchildren last count

the last 3 all have special needs - stien Taybi sydrome, Downsyndrome,

Premie at 26 weeks - med issues and many delays

had only one washer hung most everything up outside or inside - a gal from

church gave me a second washer and dryer a few

years ago which hubby has out in the shop but it does come in handy at times

we have a big old farm house that we have been remodeling for 25 years

now said we would be done in 5 - God does

have a sense of humor - we do most everything ourselves - who can afford a contractor

to do the updates we get materials and

work as we have time then no money so you save and continue on and before you

know it the project took alot longer than you thought it

would

we have our own fruit garden strawberries, raspberries, blue berries just

started them 2 eyars ago, apple orchard, one lone pear tree, potato

garden

and then the tomato/ pepper garden then there is a acre garden for

vegetables and watermelons, muskmelons

we had so many melons last summer hubby filled the wood wagon and the 11 year

old and him went around the neighborhood

and gave a lot of them away - it got to be at the end that i think people hid

when they heard them coming - kind of like how

some run when you mention zucchini- Em's classroom in the fall had melon

for snack through Oct.

freeze mostly - we hope to raise our own meat and get some goats for milk but

that is still a ways off

not sure why the familys on tv feel they need such a big place and so many

things - i keep finding less is best

I like doing my staple shopping at the mennonite store but its almost an hour

away so go about every 4 months

to get flour, oatmeal, yeast, honey, ect - its a nice little store has a front

porch with windchimes - Annie is always welcome there

rox central wi -

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> > > PS 9 years DS makes his first communion 9th May this year. We are very excited !!!>

Congratulations!! Theresa, 8 with DS, makes her First Communion on May 17th and is very excited! Theresa walks up with me when I receive and twice has almost received it because she put her hands out properly (once for the host and once for the wine). She cries whenver I tell her she has to wait until May 17th!

Good Luck!!

Debbie I. (NJ)

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,13 and 14 on April 21st, makes his Confirmation on April 27th........ Ann, s Gram

[DownSyndromeInfoExchange] Re: Lorene & Marilyn...How many kids do you have.....

> > > PS 9 years DS makes his first communion 9th May this year. We are very excited !!!>

Congratulations!! Theresa, 8 with DS, makes her First Communion on May 17th and is very excited! Theresa walks up with me when I receive and twice has almost received it because she put her hands out properly (once for the host and once for the wine). She cries whenver I tell her she has to wait until May 17th!

Good Luck!!

Debbie I. (NJ)

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>

> While we haven't taken all nine on a vacation together, or even all six

> still home, we have taken several vacations with varying numbers of them. I

think

> the most was four at a time. And yes--we've gone to Disney World! Marilyn

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hi we have 11 children and have taken all of them away but not all 11 at once

as 3 have left home but we have taken 8 in one go and loved it ... big car a

lol hugs sylvia alex,s mum of 11