A few weeks ago I wrote a post encouraging anyone who might be reading to do hard things in life. The basic message was something along the lines of, do what everyone else does and you’ll get what everyone else gets. Dare to be different and follow your own dreams instead of meeting… Read More
It isn’t rare to be faced with a certain reaction when someone hears of our plans. It is especially common to be faced with the same reaction when people hear how large our family is. We also come across it when they hear how we’ve chosen to live our lives, opting for home… Read More
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
Whilst the majority of parents are busy getting the children ready for school, I thought I’d share what our house looked like at 8.15 this morning. What were you doing at 8.15 this morning? Don’t forget that you can catch up with our family again tonight… 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