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Living That Fresh Newborn Life As A Family of SIX!

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Looking at these treasures of photos, I feel like it was only just last week that we were sitting in the thick of the joyful, exhausting chaos of newborn life with Remy-James, and of becoming a bustling family of six; Of completing our family, with my heart brimming with gratitude and blissful satisfaction of a lifelong desire truly fulfilled…Or actually, an adventure that has truly begun.

I cannot believe that this is now almost TWO years later (HOW?) How this is possible, I’m not sure. I feel like it’s a glitch in the matrix or something – all of it is still just so absolutely fresh in my mind. Even this very Continue reading →

Ties that Bind: Dynamics of Big Families & Sibling Bonds

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Looking back on where my mind was when I first felt all of this, then looking where we are now, there’s an energetic bubbling in my being for the sheer realization that dreams do come true. Every time I catch myself staring at the four little people who call me ‘mama’ interacting with each other, I have a great sense of excitement of what is to come, only surpassed by the sense of pure gratitude of what already is. At this point in our lives, we’ve now gone full circle, as by His good graces we have our large family that we ached for. But, the journey towards developing that beautiful tapestry of a tight-knit family unit is one of perpetual motion. An on-going labour of love. One, I was SO excited to start, that I thought I’d crack open my heart and mind a bit here, and share my rhymes and reasons. This was where I was when we were only at the start of this journey…

I’ve grown both tired of and used to the all too common reaction I get from most people when they hear how many children Mike and I would like to have.Yes, I know it doesn’t make sense to most people why we would want a large family, in this “day and age”, but also I’ve been fielding that question since I was about eight years old. In fact, I can still remember one of my first adlib Afrikaans orals I did in high school had me batting off that question. Mostly it’s been my dream, and thankfully I have a man who was and still is on board with it- so now it’s our dream. God-willingly, of course.

Maybe if you knew that I come from a large family, you’d maybe better understand why wanting a big family is less Continue reading →

Life with Four Kids

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Sooo…number one question I’ve been asked since baby number four born? That’s right, you guessed it, “So how is it with four kids?”, “How are you coping with four?”, “what’s life like with four?”….you get the point.

Now with Remy-James being 2 months already, I have SOOOO much I want to share with you (honestly, just so much – Im bursting at the seams already) but such is newborn life that I don’t ever get the time to put ink to these thoughts, and when I do happen upon that rare free moment, the mental perspicacity is never there to truly paint an accurate picture of my thoughts. (and on the super rare moments that the stars align and I actually have both, I realise my tits are rock hard & I need to pump…That’s so very hashtag breastfeeding life for ya!) Needless to say, Im currently sitting with two hard knockers as I type this and figured, with so much still to share but so little time, this is the best place to start: How is life with Four Kids.

Now, I almost get it. I can kind of understand why people ask this: because, I suppose most wonder, how on earth could anyone cope right? Now, in the Continue reading →

On Big Families and Sibling Bonds

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snuggleMorgyI’ve grown both tired of and used to the common reaction I get from most people when they hear how many children Mike and I would like to have. Yes, I know it doesn’t make sense to most people why we would want a large family, in this “day and age”, but also I’ve been fielding that question since I was about eight years old. In fact, I can still remember one of my first adlib Afrikaans orals I did in high school had me batting off that question. Mostly it’s been my dream, and thankfully I have a man who was and still is on board with it- so now it’s our dream. God-willingly, of course.

Maybe if you knew that I come from a large family, you’d maybe better understand why wanting a big family is less Continue reading →

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