10 Kids For Real

We really do have 10 kids. And it isn't true that 10 kids is enough, as my blog says.

I wasn't responsible for bringing all of them into the world though. My first husband and I had four children. Two boys: Kenny and Mike, and two girls: Cari, and Kim.

Mike and his first wife had 6 children. Christine, Stephen, Sherri, Amy, Lisa, and Brian. I had the wonderful privilege of helping to raise them.

When I married Mike, Chris was just graduating from high school. I can't say I raised her. She lived with us until she was 25, so it sort of feels like I raised her. Stephen pasted away 6 months before Mike and I married. I'll talk about that later. Sherri was fourteen, Amy 12, Lisa 11, and little Brian was 7.

It was the best of time. It was the worst of time. As is the first two sentences in my favorite book, Tale Of Two Cities. More about that later too. . .