You might be from a large family if...

[steve-in-kville]

[mike]

And that's just mealtime. Now, find a meme to describe the hour before you leave for church.

[Sliceitup]

... when mom makes hotdogs for supper, and there is one hotdog left on the table, and dad can tell the boys are racing to finish their current dog so they can get the last one... but dad swoops in and takes the last one. Good times.

I sometimes think my spouse has a food insecurity complex. Maybe this is where it originated.

[steve-in-kville]

And that's just mealtime. Now, find a meme to describe the hour before you leave for church.

That, my friend, is like herding cats.

[steve-in-kville]

Post mealtime, though...

[PetrChelcicky]

Just asking:
Here in Germany we have a book which for generations formed our ideas about the perfect large family ("Die Familie Pfaeffling") Even if we were only four children, I have found some of my own experiences therein. Is there a similar book in the United States? I could imagine: "Cheaper by the Dozen", which was really popular in Germany, too, but would it have been read by Mennonites?

[temporal1]

And that's just mealtime. Now, find a meme to describe the hour before you leave for church.

That, my friend, is like herding cats.

The ungodliest hour of the week?

[steve-in-kville]

And that's just mealtime. Now, find a meme to describe the hour before you leave for church.

That, my friend, is like herding cats.

The ungodliest hour of the week?

I wouldn't say ungodly. It used to be most chaotic. Since the family is getting older, with some out of the house for one reason or another, its not as it was ten years ago.

[mercysfree]

"Cheaper by the Dozen", which was really popular in Germany, too, but would it have been read by Mennonites?

I read that aloud (so as to edit out the occasional blasphemy) often enough that my children still quote choice sections! Also the sequel, Belles On Their Toes.
Examples:
"Maggots were fighting in dead earnest."
"He jumped six and nine-tenths inches."

We also loved the children's picture books Seven Silly Eaters and We Were Tired of Living in a House.

[mercysfree]

... when mom makes hotdogs for supper, and there is one hotdog left on the table, and dad can tell the boys are racing to finish their current dog so they can get the last one... but dad swoops in and takes the last one. Good times.

I sometimes think my spouse has a food insecurity complex. Maybe this is where it originated.

One of my daughters does, from a time when she was four. She is sitting there, two fingers stuck firmly in her mouth and sucking vigorously, and the tears silently rolling down her cheeks.

Someone finally notices. "Bananafay Rosebug Fletcher, why are you crying?"

"Because no one fixed me any food!"