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This is really fun and interesting!
1. I'm one of 6 kids. Our professions are:
1.teacher (but housewife now)
2.teacher (philosophy professor at UNC Chapel Hill)
3.teacher (math tutor at Thomas Aquinas College)
4.teacher (me)
5.teacher/priest (dean of all boys boarding highschool in CA)
6.student
2. Jenn GM is the first forum friend I met. I suggested meeting at a Cracker Barrel not realizing her son had severe food allergies. Then I offered to pay for lunch, had my credit card declined, had no cash, and had to ask her to pay.  She was very gracious. 
3. I was a religion major in college, specifically in Judaic studies. For summer school one year I worked on an archaeological dig in Sepphoris, Israel (about 5 miles from Nazareth).
4. Rachel is my first name. May is my last name. For some reason, people find this confusing.
5. In college I used to say that I wanted 14 kids. I sometimes worry that God was listening. 
Bonus info: I'm 40 weeks 5 days pregnant and am not in labor.
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Thomas and Anthony (10), Maria (8), Charles (6), Cecilia (5), James (3), and Joseph (1)
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Wow Rachel! 40+5! :) I didn't realize that! Praying for ya!
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Lisa, wife to Tony,
Mama to:
Nick, 17
Abby, 15
Gabe, 13
Isaac, 11
Mary, 10
Sam, 9
Henry, 7
Molly, 6
Mark, 5
Greta, 3
Cecilia born 10.29.10
Josephine born 6.11.12
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I will join the get-together..
1. I am one of five kids and my husband is one of nine kids.
2. We are both cradle Catholics-with all our siblings active in the Faith.
3. We have 10 children ages 2-21. My husband didn't think we had a lot of kids until we reached 10- one more than he grew up with.
4. I have homeschooled all the children until they reached 7th grade and then they go to a wonderful private Catholic school which is faithful to the Magisterium.
5. This year I only have a 2nd grader, kindergartener, and a ds-3 and dd-2 at home. This is the fewest kids I have ever had at home while we were schooling and it is kind of like a vacation. Mostly we have fun--day after day.
I am having a wonderful time hearing about all the wonderful ladies here. 
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Welcome to Tonya!! Glad you chimed in!
And it's funny what you can learn from 5 facts!!
Like... Marilyn is a rule breaker - with +5 facts, KC is a walking contradiction: she'll throw her body out a flying plane... but don't get her near the possibility of lava!
And it's funny to find out ages! I forget that I married at 30, so MANY of you ladies with 6 or more kids (like Erin) are younger than me! Speaking of which:
Rachel May wrote:
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Maybe reverse pschology is all you need - rub your tummy and tell the pumpkin he can stay inside all he/she wants. If you go into labor soon, know that you're in trouble for the teenage years.
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Ooooo, or Rachel, you can try the ice cream displacement of induction.....eat so much ice cream that is absolutely no more room for baby!
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Lisa, wife to Tony,
Mama to:
Nick, 17
Abby, 15
Gabe, 13
Isaac, 11
Mary, 10
Sam, 9
Henry, 7
Molly, 6
Mark, 5
Greta, 3
Cecilia born 10.29.10
Josephine born 6.11.12
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Lisbet wrote:
| Ooooo, or Rachel, you can try the ice cream displacement of induction.....eat so much ice cream that is absolutely no more room for baby! |
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I love it! As someone who has routinely gone 40 weeks + 9 days with each of my four and has tried everything from a castor oil root beer float with a peanut butter cup chaser to riding over train tracks in my husband's tiny little commuter car (both worked!) I am so gonna try this idea if God ever blesses us with another one!!!
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with bookend boys and a double girl sandwich
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joann10 wrote:
| This year I only have a 2nd grader, kindergartener, and a ds-3 and dd-2 at home. This is the fewest kids I have ever had at home while we were schooling and it is kind of like a vacation. Mostly we have fun--day after day. |
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Joann I love checking your blog because it looks like you're having fun -- day after day. Really educational fun, I might add. Great inspiration!
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Hmmm... 5 facts, do they have to be interesting?
1. SAHM to 3 kids plus one on the way
2. Married to a choleric engineer. (I get extra graces to handle that!)
3. My brother is a priest in Nebraska, and I'm the only girl who has ever been allowed to take philosophy classes with the seminarians there... because the priests I talked to couldn't answer my philosophical problems that were inflicted by the Jesuit college I attended.
4. I attended medical school for 3 weeks before I realized that I'd rather be a SAHM. Haven't regretted it for a second.
5. I love coffee, hiking, and being a mom!
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Finally have a minute to do this...and I can't think of anything!
1. I'm fast approaching 40, married 14 years next month to my favorite person in the world, with 4 girls (10, 8, 5, almost 3) and little boy (6 months).
2. I'm NOT a risk taker! I almost passed out reading about jumping out of planes up there Or maybe that's my fear of heights. That being said, I do things most of my family and former friends couldn't dream of doing (and I'm sure you all understand this) - homeschool, cook for 5 kids with different food allergies, homeschool, have plastic surgery on my face w/o being put under  , have five kids PERIOD (the surgeon joked that I had 5 kids and homeschooled them, surgery while awake was nothing ), homeschool...
3. I'm a cradle Catholic but my family wasn't really religious (Catholicism was for Sundays and Holy Days). I fell away in my 20's for the most part and returned after learning all about Church history, etc.
4. If I could do anything after my kids leave the nest, I would like to own some sort of specialized library - small enough that I would be owner/operator, big enough that people would come use it. That would satisfy my need for books and to be helpful, and my desires to start my own business, be my own boss, and be knowledgeable about things. I've often thought about some kind of homeschooling store, which would be similar.
5. Hmmmm....I think about food all the time?
It's been fun reading everyone's posts! 
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MaryM wrote:
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Mary, I can't picture you doing anything that would require a restraining order!! But you've piqued my curiousity...
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What a happy thread! I want to comment on all of your posts but then I won't get anything done today! Thanks for making me smile, LOL, and completely nod in agreement to many similarities! And I had some nagging questions answered. I've been meaning to ask Guitarnan what kind of writing she did, and now I know!
As I can never be brief watch me sneak in a few extras like Nancy....
1) I'm the oldest of 7 children, and I have 4 sisters. I'm taller than Stefoodie, but not by much. I'm 5'2". And I'm one of the tallest sisters in my family (Fuzzy is my sister and she's the same height).
2) I've been interested in living the liturgical year ever since I was very young. Over the years I've enjoyed actually had jobs working on this love.http://www.catholicculture.org/liturgicalyear/ and EWTN liturgical year books online is basically my personal library in digital form.
3) Music is my other love, although I'm rusty now. I was the music director for Seton's first musical, "Fiddler on the Roof", and then later worked with Maryan (and Fuzzy my sister) on another one. I used to play the organ, and at one time I played it in a cage under the portable basketball hoop.
4) It took me 11 years to finish my college degree. After dragging along with a music major and working at the community college I switched majors to history and graduated from Franciscan University of Steubenville at the old age of 30.
5) I met my husband online. He moved from Pittsburgh to be near me. I got married at age 33. I had trouble conceiving, so both my sons (age 4 and 3 months) are truly miracles of conception. Married life with children is ALL that I hoped it would be, and more!
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Hmmmmm.....
1. I am the oldest of three children and two of us were born on the base of a refinery in Punta Cardon, Venezuela, in the same year (1968) and we're from the same family - my birthday is Jan and her's is November.
2. I do voiceover work and just last week sang the "Star Spangled Banner" for my dson's opening day ceremonies for baseball. Tomorrow, I am singing it for my girls' softball league's opening ceremonies!
3. I like puns and playing with words.
4. Coffee is my friend. So are tea, chocolate, mocha almond fudge ice cream, sports, gardening and flowers.
5. I would love to live near the ocean and hear the waves crash daily.
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Here goes
1. I am Peruvian-Cuban-American if you ask my dad....Cuban-Peruvian-American if you ask my mom.
2. If its the right time of day, I watch Charmed on TNT while I fold laundry in my room. Its my husband's fault. Sadly I think I've watched every single episode. But, I have NEVER watched Survivor or American Idol or Lost.
3. I love following politics...husband hates politics. I started watching C-span when Iran-Contra hearings were going on...I think I was in 6th grade...thats what I rushed home to watch after school.
4. I think I'm actually a Democrat. Albeit a rabidly pro-life, socially conservative (on most issues)...nevertheless...I admit it...I'm a Democrat.
5. If I could I would eat Chinese/Japanese/any Asian cuisine every single day.
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Everyone has such interesting things to write! I need to talk to Donna about vegetarian foods and commiserate with Patty on long CPA hours.
Here are five things about me:
1. I am a convert from Episcopal, joining the Church at the Easter Vigil, 1983 (I was still in college.)
2. I have lived in less than a 30 mile radius my entire life, including college! But I have been to 26 other states, so far. Drove to all but HI and NY.
3. DH and I have been married 23 years and have 6 sons, 20, 17, 13, 10, 6 and almost 4. (Three sons are now taller than me- I am 5'9" and the tallest is 6'5".)
4. I grew up with two much older sisters (they are now 60 and 57- I am 45, as of March 24th! ) So, I was a bit of an only child at home, but am very close to my sisses.
5. I love... the colors blue and yellow (yes, I graduated from UM, but they were my favorites before then,) daffodils, old movies, biking and walking, the smell of chrism, and Tim Hortons!
God Bless,
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Maria, what is that?
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No wonder we never run into each other in bristow restaurants... I'm a texmex, italian kinda girl.
(BTW-- no one has called me out for cheating and completely sharing way more stuff about *me* in between...)
What's Tim Hortons?
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Seriously??? I thought you were a coffee drinker!! I think it may be a regional thing (Stacy and I are close to Canada!) THE yummiest coffee - and triple chocolate doughnuts!
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Nick, 17
Abby, 15
Gabe, 13
Isaac, 11
Mary, 10
Sam, 9
Henry, 7
Molly, 6
Mark, 5
Greta, 3
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Maryan wrote:
| Maybe reverse pschology is all you need - rub your tummy and tell the pumpkin he can stay inside all he/she wants. If you go into labor soon, know that you're in trouble for the teenage years. |
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| Ooooo, or Rachel, you can try the ice cream displacement of induction.....eat so much ice cream that is absolutely no more room for baby! |
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Matilda wrote:
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Except for castor oil, I've tried all of these, plus more! I've decided she/he's waiting for my birthday next week, when I'll be all of 35, Maryan! (Lisa, Bill loves your tag most of everyone here especially when he found out that you are younger than I am! )
Stacy, what's Tim Hortons?
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Rachel, that's funny... I've thought of putting me and dh's ages in there too to really add to the 'shock' value, but, that would put me over the limit on space!
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Abby, 15
Gabe, 13
Isaac, 11
Mary, 10
Sam, 9
Henry, 7
Molly, 6
Mark, 5
Greta, 3
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LOL -- it must be regional because otherwise, surely this coffee and donuts girl would know it. Triple chocolate donuts sound right up my alley. But... I've never been to Michigan. And have only made a quick visit in southern Ohio.
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I learned the glories of Tim Horton's last summer when I went to Canada. Maryan, you would love it.
Age? 35. I met my husband when I was 13, but didn't know I loved him until I was 20. Since I had Maddy just shy of 22, you can see we wasted little time after that. He knew he loved me when he was 15. I'm ever so grateful he waited for me to catch up
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