Family stuff

So, it's been a little while since I posted. Been a little busy!
Abby's a month old now and Angela is in the States on leave for 15 days, give or take. That's the news and not what I wanted to write about.
I've been thinking a lot about my childhood and family life. Partly because of my children and partly because of this show I found on TLC called Kids by the Dozen. I did watch a couple of the 17 and 18 kids and counting about the Duggars, but frankly, I found them quite weird. (No offense to any of their admirers, just an opinion)
But Kids by the dozen was different, they seemed more normal somehow. I could relate to them more.
Like the Heppners. Not a fairyale love story by any means. They didn't just meet and fall in love and live happily ever after, popping out kids as they went along. They had very real struggles and issues and managed to make something good out of them. I had fun watching them.
The Arndts made a business out of their family, but in a good way. They have a ministry and they are all involved in it in a different way. One of the boys, I think the oldest, was talking about being in the midst of a big family and what it was like growing up with that many kids and all. It reminded me of a conversation, Dustin and I had once about my family. I said that it was easy to look at it from the outside, now that I have some distance on the whole thing, and think, Oh my gosh, there are nine of us! But when we're all together, it's not the same, it's just us. As a kid, it seemed strange that other people thought that we were strange!
Anyway, been thinking about htis for a while now and its nce to have it out.