It’s no secret that I am stubborn and opinionated. I have a thought on everything. Sometimes I air it. Sometimes I don’t. Most of the time Mike and I put the world to rights ourselves. Sometimes I’ll offload here. When I watched the final edit of 16 Kids and Counting I was a… Read More
This time last week I was nervously anticipating the airing of our first episode of 16 Kids and Counting. I had prepared myself to defend our decisions – our decision to have a large family, our decision to work for ourselves, our decision to become as self-sufficient as possible and our decision… Read More
Our lives, indeed our lifestyle, hasn’t quite panned out the way we imagined it would. For a start, when we went on our first date (23 years ago tomorrow) as fresh-faced 14 and 16 year olds we would never have imagined a dozen children at least making up our family twenty years down… Read More
This has been a weekend of trying to catch up with all the bits and pieces I hadn’t got around to doing the week or two before. Unfortunately it wasn’t a week of catching up household wise as then there might be some semblance of organisation and normality. Rather, it was a weekend of… Read More