I suspect dad's wisdom was an after thought. He was one of 16
16?! your grandmother must have been in a permanent state of exhaustion
She had a kid basically every two yrs then died in her early 50s of an asthma attack. That was 1936, 9 yrs before I was born so I never knew her.
I knew Granpa well. Mean, onry, old, sob. I was 12-13 when he died.
The "baby" in dad's family, my aunt Dorthy, is still here and the last one. She's 91 and lives in Az with her daughter Jo, my cousin.
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Blimey, by today's standards, 50 is no age at all; My sister-in-law was the baby of 10 children, and they all grew up in a 2 up 2 down by the docks in Humberside, I remember her mum at the wedding looking like a knackered little sparrow, who died a few years after my SIL and my brother were married, her father lived a good few more years, tended to by all the girls in the family, while the boys pretty much did as they pleased.
I was always tired with 3 children, so god alone knows how women with large broods feel!
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Quote: Bob Scott
My mom always said she should have stopped with one or two.
I'm #3..... ........
Mom always got mad at me when I said we had a large family because she was hard of hearing. (she wasn't)
When they went to bed dad would say "Do you want to go to sleep or what"?
Of course, being hard of hearing mom would say WHAT!
One of my sisters will still slap the back of my head when I tell that joke.
Well, this part isn't a joke, but my father's best friend growing up in Boston had 15 siblings. My father told us that he could always go over to Ralph's house for dinner or to sleep over, because no one ever noticed the extra face.
On a smaller scale, I'm the first-born of 7, and I don't ever remember fewer than 12 or 13 at the regular dinner table. If it wasn't a friend of one of us staying for dinner, it was a stray my mother had taken in.
And Tracey, now you have a hint about why I am as happy as you are being alone with
the dogs!
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