November 05, 2015
New family member alert- our brother's getting married! Today on the blog Bullets breaks down her feelings on adding another person into her already crazy large group- we couldn't be happier! Also, she's a doctor...wahooooo! (she's super great too)
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October 20, 2015
Halloween with a large family is amazing and everyone gets into the fun. Having a dad who thinks (and he might be) he is the greatest pumpkin carver in all of the world leads to last minute stress and some important pre-planning from Bullets.
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September 02, 2015
September means the end of the summer and the start of school. Bullets discusses what it was like watching her first child get on the bus, as compared to her eighth.
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August 13, 2015
Road trips with eight kids are never dull. Count on noise, fighting, laughter and tears. Bullets takes a look back at the many road trips our family took and how we always managed to leave Nell behind.
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July 16, 2015
I love being with them, but I am a strict grandma, and I know sometimes they are not so happy to be with me. In theory, I would love to be the ‘free for all’ type of grandma, but alas I am not and so there are rules and expectations.
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June 12, 2015
I still hear about my children's lives, their ups and downs, wins and losses, but they handle the solutions sometimes with 'sought after' advice. Trying to stay out of their business is difficult, I try to keep my wisdom to myself, not always with success.
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May 07, 2015
Over the years, some of the kid's friends, now adults, are surprised that I am so nice and fun to be with. They have confessed that they were afraid of me when they were young and it brings a smile to my heart.
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April 29, 2015
Mom took the brunt of pretty much everything, and still made sure we were always fed, happy,and driven to every activity on time. As adults, it's easy to see why she sometimes seemed a little stressed when we were growing up, and very hard to understand how she's maintained her sanity at all.
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