Rolling Deep

Matt and I are constantly getting remarks about how large our family is. Most common?

 

1) "You have your hands full!"

This comment is usually made in the grocery store as I am trying to maneuver a huge "car" shopping cart full of cheese sticks and coconut milk around the crystal dishes display table in the middle of the aisle while my beautiful offspring decide to play chicken with the other shoppers' carts and see who can make the loudest echo in the store. (Run-on sentence? Yes.)

Usual response: "Sure do!" Smile politely and bite tongue.

What I am thinking: "Thank you, Captain Obvious!"

What I will say in the future: "No, I just roll deep."

 

2) "I know what you do in your spare time!" Wink. Wink.

Ummmmm....ok. This one is strange.

Usual response: "You certainly do...I take care of these children!"

What I am thinking: "Why, oh why, do people feel the need to say things to me? At all?"

What I will say in the future:"You do? What is it? Explain it to me!" 

 

3) "Don't you have a TV?"

This one has only been asked once. I think it is because Matt's answer was so brutally painful that no one will ever dare to ask it again.

We were at a church picnic. A CHURCH PICNIC, y'all! The man selling tickets for something or another was astounded at the number of children at our table. (I didn't even have Esther at this point.) He turned to Matt and politely commented, "You know how that happens, right? You should get your TV fixed! HAR HAR HAR HAR!"

Matt's response: "If you think TV is better than sex, then you must be doing it wrong."

Matt says this in a serious tone with a HUGE SMILE.

My response: cry inside. turn fifty shades of red. look furtively around the room to make sure our priest is not within earshot of this conversation.
Matt turns to me and, as a way of comforting my embarrassed state, says, "What?! If he wants to talk about sex, let's talk about sex!"

Having many children/rolling deep is a blessing. I am learning so much all the time. Since we are homeschooling, I have the added benefit of never(ever) having a blessed moment to myself. It is good for me. Builds character.

Homeschooling is going really well, I tell people. Then we have science lessons like last week, and I question my sanity and my ability to continue to lie to people...

The Science Lesson
Since Sarah and Joseph are so close in age, they have been doing much of their learning together. I read lessons from both their books aloud and they get the opportunity to fight over who learned it better and understood it faster and who is more amazing, etc.
"Centrifugal force," I tell the cherubs, "is what holds water in a bucket when you spin it around very quickly. It is the feeling you get in your hands when you twirl your body with arms outstretched."
I ask the children to spin as I have explained and request them to pay close attention to the feeling in their fingertips.
 "The force," I continue, "is..."
"I love the Force!" interrupts Joseph, as he spins uncontrollably.
"I'm Obi Wan!"

Rollin' deep with my Star Wars addicts at the Pernot Institute.