A New One…
While at my friend Thuy’s house yesterday, we were playing outside with the kids–her 3 and my 3 (6 kids under the age of 4). The fence to her backyard is not a privacy wooden fence that we often have or see in our own backyards but instead a metal fencing that others can see quite well through. Anyway, we’re all outside and a women comes walking over from the small lake overlooking their backyard and says, “Is this a daycare?” A stern and loud, “No,” answered Thuy (and Thuy’s not usually a stern and loud person). I couldn’t help but laugh rather loudly to the woman’s question simply because that was a new one to me! And I thought it was kind of funny.
Of course, today, my friend Teresa and I took our kids to the Austin Children’s Museum (again 5 kids under the age of 4), and simply going up the elevator a young man asked, “Are all these yours?”
Blessed be God, we’re not running a daycare and yes, they are all ours…and rather, to echo John Paul the Great and our new Homeschooling group name, Totus Tuus! Lord, they are totally yours and our Blessed Mother’s. Thank You, Lord, for letting us care for them!
Ha! Those are great. Not too long ago, I was out alone with our three babies (4,2,and 1) and a lady and her husband came up to me, cooing at the kids. The lady turns to me smiling and says, “You and your husband have been busy, haven’t you?” (and then she winked at me!!!)
That was the first time I’d ever heard THAT one! We should start a book of the “Strange and Funny Things we Hear From Other People While Toting Our Big Family Around Town.” Of course that title should be truncated.
I remember my friend Nancy & I use to compare the same notes. She had 7 kids and one day someone asked her if those were all hers. She replied “yes” and the woman asked in amazement, “All from the same father?!”
Wow! Can’t wait to join you, although I have some catching up to do