-=> Quoting Ruth Hanschka to Nancy Backus on 08-22-19  00:10 <=-

 >  > her ahead of time...  But we also did tend to stay for activities
 >  > after school, so she might have just taken it in stride.. Plus 
 >  > there were plenty of other kids at home to distract her... I'm the
 >  > oldest of 8, the youngest was probably about 18 months old at the
 >  > time... ;)  
 >  RH> That would do it.  Eight little monsters... eep. (LOL)
 > All planned, too...  (G)  There's almost 16 years between me and the
 > youngest... the spacing stretched out a little at the end... the
 > first 4 were in 5 years... ;)  

 RH> Double EEP.  Brave, or crazy, parents.  Friends of mine had seven, but
 RH> the last two are twins.  They were born a few months after the oldest 
 RH> one got married.

Mommy always said that they'd decided to have a large family... they
were each the oldest of three kids, but Daddy's mother was the oldest of
8 girls... They spaced the first two of us at 2 years apart, and then
Mommy was curious as to what her natural spacing would be... so the next
two were each 18 months apart, which apparently was what the natural
spacing was, and she decided that was too close together, so they again
planned the two year span for the next baby... So it was 2 years, 18
months, 18 months and then 2 years... 5 kids in 7 years...  Then the
last 3 were spaced more like 3 years apart... No cabooses or twins in
the batch... They got their eight kids, they quit having more... :)

Upshot was, though, that I as oldest got a major share of the load...
so, yeah, somewhat eep... ;)  And dunno if it was brave, or crazy, or
some of each...  ;)  I do remember having to mother my mother from time
to time, as well as my yuunger siblings... ;)

ttyl        neb

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