When I was pregnant with my sixth child I received so many unwelcome stares and comments it was seriously messed up. I actually had one friend ask me how I could bring another child into this lousy messed world when I had already been blessed with five, two have special needs and my husband is never here. (let it be known she is no longer my friend). How sad. My other children thought there were many good reasons for me to have so many. I need a personal slave, someone to answer the cell phone while I m driving, someone to give directions when I am driving, find my missing truck keys, unload the groceries from the truck, and of course help put the younger children’s in their car seats. I needed children around the house to eat all the leftovers that even the neighbour’s dog wouldn’t touch. I need someone to shove out of the truck to save a spot in line at the movie theatre while I find a parking spot for the big truck. I need someone to run in to Timmies and get my coffee when there isn’t a drive throu. I need live- ins to help raise the younger children by taking them to the bathroom every five minutes and babysit for free. I need an excuse for my big ass and flabby upper arms. I need material for my Christmas newsletter and blogs. I need someone to practice psychiatry and medicine on (“if you don’t take your ADHD medicine you will become a wild beast!”) and (“Turn down the Ipod or you will go deaf!”) That’s their story. Mine of course is even more biased. I have brought so many children and will bring even more children into this lousy messed up world because when you love somebody they love you back and the world doesn’t seem so lousy and messed up. I have given them life because they have the same right I have been given to decide if this is a lousy messed up world or not. More than an image over the dining room table they are special to the universe now and will be when I am long gone. Some people decide to take the risk of becoming a parent to a child or children. If we don’t, then who will be left to listen to ignorant people lament “I don’t want to bring a child into this lousy messed up world.”? until next time, the6packmom