We just interviewed a nanny

[TrudyCampbell]

Who has 5 older brothers, and their parents kept trying for a girl until they conceived her and her identical triplet sisters! 8 children including triplets. OH MY GOSH.

irishsara, are you sure you want to go through with that vasectomy?

In other news, I really liked her and I'm not in the mood to interview other people now.

[ruby412]

OMG!! That is crazy!

[carawestt]

Woah!

[kkfeb04]

I hope she's the one. I'm not sure what is worse 5 teenaged boys eating you out of house and home or 3 teenaged triplets pmsing at the same time.

I would be committed.

[Deleted]

That's insane. I'm glad you liked her!

[Deleted]

Identical triplets are CRAZY odds! Its more common to have fraternal triplets, and that isnt even that common.

Wowza

[Deleted]

Both my grandparents came from 10 children.

That shit cray.

[carawestt]

My dad was 1 of 12, with 2 sets of twins.

[DesertMoon]

We'll coming from her background it sounds like your two angels shouldn't be too much for her!

[TrudyCampbell]

Mar 8, 2014 11:31:46 GMT -5 carawestt said:

My dad was 1 of 12, with 2 sets of twins.

Damn. How did people handle that? I have ONE child and it's too much, haha.

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Mar 8, 2014 11:31:46 GMT -5 carawestt said:

My dad was 1 of 12, with 2 sets of twins.

Ahhh. I'm assuming fraternal? That means she hyperovulates. Crazy ovaries.

Where are the next set twins damn it?? Did jfh find out yet?

Also- I am glad you liked the Nanny! Do you have a lot more to interview?

[carawestt]

Mar 8, 2014 11:36:10 GMT -5 TrudyCampbell said:

Mar 8, 2014 11:31:46 GMT -5 carawestt said:

My dad was 1 of 12, with 2 sets of twins.

Damn. How did people handle that? I have ONE child and it's too much, haha.

I have no idea! My Grandma was a Polish Catholic, so I guess there was no stopping her haha. And they lived in a tiny, 3 bedroom house. Oh and the best part! The two youngest were conceived after they split up (but never divorced) during one night stands when my Grandpa would come over drunk.

[carawestt]

Mar 8, 2014 11:38:17 GMT -5 jnoellee said:

Mar 8, 2014 11:31:46 GMT -5 carawestt said:

My dad was 1 of 12, with 2 sets of twins.

Ahhh. I'm assuming fraternal? That means she hyperovulates. Crazy ovaries.

Both fraternal, yeah. Boy boy and boy girl.

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Mar 8, 2014 11:36:10 GMT -5 TrudyCampbell said:

Mar 8, 2014 11:31:46 GMT -5 carawestt said:

My dad was 1 of 12, with 2 sets of twins.

Damn. How did people handle that? I have ONE child and it's too much, haha.

Elias is my most challenging many days. I think the more you have, the subsequent children become easier. I dont know that it applies to THAT many kids though. Lol. I assume they all just sit on the floor together and the big kids take care of the little kids and the parents just do whatever they want. Haha

[mala]

carawestt LOL OMG!

[TrudyCampbell]

Mar 8, 2014 11:38:17 GMT -5 jnoellee said:

Mar 8, 2014 11:31:46 GMT -5 carawestt said:

My dad was 1 of 12, with 2 sets of twins.

Ahhh. I'm assuming fraternal? That means she hyperovulates. Crazy ovaries.

Where are the next set twins damn it?? Did jfh find out yet?

Also- I am glad you liked the Nanny! Do you have a lot more to interview?

We ended up deciding to hire two people- one morning and one afternoon, since it was too hard to have one person do both without being full time. For example, Mondays we need a morning person but then Tuesdays we need an afternoon person, so we were basically asking people to have full time availability for a part time position, which isn't fair.

Anywayyyy, we hired a morning person and she's great. And this girl we met today is very young (19 almost 20) but has tons of experience, and is in college for early childhood development with an interest in speech therapy (perfect!) and seems very mature. The reason I mention her age is because she's also cheap! She's asking for significantly less than the other girl we hired, which is great because we can get her for more hours.

We have 4 interviews tomorrow but I kind of want to just cancel them. I'm tired.

[carawestt]

Mar 8, 2014 11:41:02 GMT -5 jnoellee said:

Mar 8, 2014 11:36:10 GMT -5 TrudyCampbell said:

Damn. How did people handle that? I have ONE child and it's too much, haha.

Elias is my most challenging many days. I think the more you have, the subsequent children become easier. I dont know that it applies to THAT many kids though. Lol. I assume they all just sit on the floor together and the big kids take care of the little kids and the parents just do whatever they want. Haha

I think when you have that many kids, there's a pretty big age gap between them. Like in my dad's family, the oldest is like 30 something years older than the youngest. So only like 6 kids lived in the house at a time I'm assuming.

[kkfeb04]

My grandma was one of 10 with a set of identical twins and another set of twins but I don't know if they were identical or not as one was stillborn and this was the early 20's when babies were still born at home.

Our area has a ton of large families because of the Amish and Mennonite communities. A family of 8 is small.

[kdrake8]

Mar 8, 2014 11:24:26 GMT -5 TrudyCampbell said:

Who has 5 older brothers, and their parents kept trying for a girl until they conceived her and her identical triplet sisters! 8 children including triplets. OH MY GOSH.

irishsara, are you sure you want to go through with that vasectomy?

In other news, I really liked her and I'm not in the mood to interview other people now.

:-|

8 kids.

[kkfeb04]

Mar 8, 2014 11:45:49 GMT -5 carawestt said:

Mar 8, 2014 11:41:02 GMT -5 jnoellee said:

Elias is my most challenging many days. I think the more you have, the subsequent children become easier. I dont know that it applies to THAT many kids though. Lol. I assume they all just sit on the floor together and the big kids take care of the little kids and the parents just do whatever they want. Haha

I think when you have that many kids, there's a pretty big age gap between them. Like in my dad's family, the oldest is like 30 something years older than the youngest. So only like 6 kids lived in the house at a time I'm assuming.

Not around here, there isn't a large gap. The oldest of my grandma's siblings was born in 1919 (after the war baby) and youngest was born in 1931.

There was a story of a young family in the news, they have a 3 year old, a 2 year old, an 18 month old, and a 6 week old.

Nope, I don't love being pregnant that much.

[carawestt]

Mar 8, 2014 11:52:45 GMT -5 kkfeb04 said:

Mar 8, 2014 11:45:49 GMT -5 carawestt said:

I think when you have that many kids, there's a pretty big age gap between them. Like in my dad's family, the oldest is like 30 something years older than the youngest. So only like 6 kids lived in the house at a time I'm assuming.

Not around here, there isn't a large gap. The oldest of my grandma's siblings was born in 1919 (after the war baby) and youngest was born in 1931.

There was a story of a young family in the news, they have a 3 year old, a 2 year old, an 18 month old, and a 6 week old.

Nope, I don't love being pregnant that much.

How can they have a 2 year old and an 18 month old?

[Deleted]

Yea glad you found some girls that work! When are you having them start? Are they also backup for labor time?

[kkfeb04]

Mar 8, 2014 11:54:18 GMT -5 carawestt said:

Mar 8, 2014 11:52:45 GMT -5 kkfeb04 said:

Not around here, there isn't a large gap. The oldest of my grandma's siblings was born in 1919 (after the war baby) and youngest was born in 1931.

There was a story of a young family in the news, they have a 3 year old, a 2 year old, an 18 month old, and a 6 week old.

Nope, I don't love being pregnant that much.

How can they have a 2 year old and an 18 month old?

It's probably a 2.5 year old, the article didn't give birth dates. I can definitely happen, ask biblionerd. If someone ask Kalvin's age, I didn't go 3.5, I said 3.

[TrudyCampbell]

Mar 8, 2014 12:01:23 GMT -5 @jayhawkali said:

Yea glad you found some girls that work! When are you having them start? Are they also backup for labor time?

We are having them start this week, so Monday! I'm so excited. And yes, backup for labor. It would be awesome if that worked out.

[carawestt]

This thread kinda got off track, sorry Trudy! So glad you found someone you like! One less thing for you to stress about

[unclejesse]

Nope nope nope to going from 5 to 8 kids.

But I'm super happy you found someone you like!

[bean47]

Crazy! Good to hear you have found people you like.

[devotchka]

woah!

[Deleted]

Morning and afternoon nannies sounds like a good plan. Glad it worked out well!

ETA I'm lazy and probably wouldn't do more interviews lol but don't follow my example

[Deleted]

Ahhhhhhhhh!! I always wonder, when you have that many kids, how do you do anything? Do you have to buy a bus for your family?!