If you had a freeway billboard, what would it say? BRING BACK BIG FAMILIES This one was very easy actually and pretty obvious when you think about it. I know they’re not for everyone, but we need more big families. My doctor and I had a good conversation last week about big families, and she… Continue reading Random Musings #3
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Six: Train Trip Report: What to Expect on Amtrak With Your Big Family
(Long one. You’ve been warned.) As I began typing this, we were on the home stretch of our three day trip. Day one saw us on the train for just shy of seven hours, two nights and a day spent in Dallas (I’ll focus on that in another post soon), and then our 7.5 hour… Continue reading Six: Train Trip Report: What to Expect on Amtrak With Your Big Family
Five: On the Train into the New Year
Our family’s first big trip, a trip to Dallas on the Amtrak Texas Eagle to close out 2024! We didn’t ring in the new year there, but it was an amazing way to close out an amazing year. Only my wife had ever been on an Amtrak train before, so she was the only one… Continue reading Five: On the Train into the New Year
Random Musings #2
“I see the children play outside, like angels in the snowWhile mom and daddy share a kiss under the mistletoeAnd we’ll cherish all these simple things wherever we may beOh, why? ‘Cause that’s Christmas to me” “That’s Christmas to Me,” by Pentatonix I challenged my students recently to write an essay for extra credit on… Continue reading Random Musings #2
Four: The Greatest Gift of Marriage
My wife is pregnant with our sixth child. After the initial shock has worn off when we tell people that, there’s always some form of the following question that comes right after: don’t you guys know how this works? It’s the inevitable question I suppose, offered in jest generally, that insinuates lots of different (usually… Continue reading Four: The Greatest Gift of Marriage
Random Musings #1
Is your life today what you pictured a year ago? One year ago, December 17, 2023. Is my life what I pictured a year ago? Honestly, yes. I think I probably would’ve wanted a new job (I’m a teacher. We think about new jobs basically every day), but if I’m being 100% honest, I knew… Continue reading Random Musings #1
Three: Holidays
Seeing as how Christmas is only a few days away, I think I’ll take a dive into what having a big family is like at Christmas. I’ll cover the other holidays as they come. So, Christmas is my favorite holiday of the year. Everything about spending it with my family excited me. The decorations in… Continue reading Three: Holidays
Two: My Big Family
An intro to my big family seems in order. I’m going to keep this somewhat brief and somewhat shrouded as I am not one of those parents who is looking to, for lack of a better term, pimp out my kids for the Gram. I’m not like that. Frankly, I despise parents like that. This… Continue reading Two: My Big Family
One: Hello World!
Welcome to Bring Back Big Families, my blog dedicated to the 5% of families who are brave (crazy?) enough to bring five or more lives into this crazy world we call home. My aim for this blog is to give the 95% a chance to see what life is like for those of us with… Continue reading One: Hello World!