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[solobiker]

I have had a bad cold lately and the other night while I was in bed I had a bad coughing situation that lasted a minute or two. Well anyway after all the coughing I closed my eyes to go back to sleep then started to feel a coolish breeze on my face. I was trying to figure out where it was coming from as I did not here the furnace turn on and plus we don't have a vent near our bed. I slowly opened my eyes to find that my dog was standing over me and panting. Must have startled her with my coughing. Maybe she was making sure her "Mom" was okay

[crazycanuck]

It's like a sauna outside!!! The shade isn't much help either. 37C atm. At least we're not in Adelaide. Geez i feel sorry for them, 6 days of 40C+ !!!

I have an unhappy right quad & am going to see a bike fitter on Wed. I'm really annoyed as I get to a certain km mark & then my quad starts to hurt. I can't seem to fully stretch it out either.

I am desperate for a new saddle but can't decide which one to get & can't keep spending $$$$..

HELPPP!!!

[Zen]

I think this is SFW but just to be sure




























































I'm putting it down here. Too good not to share.

[Selkie]

Zen

That got my Monday off to a good start. Thank you. Now I can face the commute out to Dulles!

[crazycanuck]

HA HA!!! *snort*

Umm can someone tell me how you feed 16 children??

[Pax]

Excellent, Zen!

[Duck on Wheels]

Ummm ... I only count 14 children there, unless of course you figure the parents are pretty immature themselves. As for feeding them: Used to be, back in the days of big families on the farm, that you put them to work. The more hands, the more food you could produce. If these folks don't have a farm, then I have no idea how they manage. Corporate sponsorship, maybe? Teach the kids to sing and hire them out as a choir (they seem to be dressed for a Sound of Music performance)?

[tulip]

I've seen them on TV, so I guess it's corporate sponsorship. Seems to be a few of those mega-families on TV these days. The whole thing seems rather irresponsible to me, but there I go again...

[Aggie_Ama]

That was great Zen. That family is up to 18 children now, scares me a bit. My pawpaw was one of 10 but that was a different time.

I have noticed a lot of us of the childless by choice variety here. I haven't fully committed to the lifestyle but it gets more appealing to DH and I. And thanks to people having litters of kiddos (8 seriously?) the world won't experience a population decline if I decide they aren't for me.

[Tuckervill]

There are 18, and they live near me. Only 17 at home, though! People here LOVE them. I used to be disgusted by them, because their type kind of "defined" the word "homeschooler" for the country, and that made trouble for those of us who were normal. But the dad did help us out on the homeschool law thing back when he was in the legislature (helped us loosen it up to allow more freedom). After I watched their show for the last season, I've come to admire the mother for her sweet nature, while still not caring for their proliferation. My son and I drove by their house not too long ago. Turn left by the giant white cow.

That poster is very very funny!

Karen

[Tuckervill]

The difference between the woman who had eight at once and the Duggars is that the Duggars live debt free, own their home, buy at thrift stores, make their own clothes and will never, ever use any kind of government assistance to raise their kids. If they can raise them like that, who am I to question it?

I don't know for sure that the woman who gave birth to eight recently is on government assistance, but I can guarantee you that she won't be paying the many millions of dollars it is costing to make her babies viable and survive while they are in the NICU. Eventually that will trickle down to us, the taxpayers.

Karen

[Aggie_Ama]

The Duggars while not my style do it well. I knew they were debt free and the kids appear to be well behaved. There is a family with 8 or 9 kids across the street from my in-laws and they are all pretty good kids. They do go to public schools.

I read the one who had 8 has 3 sets of twins at home, all achieved by invitro with sperm donation because she is single. She will now have 14 kids and one parent. I know a lot of rockstar single moms and dads but none of them have a number of kids like that.

[Crankin]

That picture is ah, well funny. I know they don't depend on any public assistance, but it still upsets me. It's hard for me to say "to each his/her own" about 16 kids. But, who am I to talk? I could barely handle two when they were little. There was a period of about a year when I never took both of my boys out together, unless someone was with me. Too stressful. And they were not bad kids, just normally rambunctious. I was the queen of getting a babysitter for #2, so I could take #1 to his 30 minute swim lesson in peace.
But, it all worked out. At one point, I was A) not going to have any and then B) just going to have one. But, after I had the first, I wanted another and I wanted to do it quickly. So they are 2.5 years apart. I knew if I waited until the first one was 4 and in school, I wouldn't do it.
I used to get so mad when people would ask me when I was going to "try for a girl." Like I wasn't happy with my 2 boys. My husband had a vasectomy when the second was 6 weeks old and I don't regret that at all.

[Zen]

I think they use the older ones to help with the little ones. While that's reasonable to some degree I hope the older kids have time to be normal teenagers.

I don't think I'd want that many siblings.

[BleeckerSt_Girl]

I think they use the older ones to help with the little ones.

I thought you were going to say "I think they use the older ones as food for the little ones."