I'm from a family of nine children, and I can say that having so many siblings get better as we all grow older. There's nothing like family, and its really a built-in support group, especially when I recently gave my baby up to be adopted by my older sister.
When people made comments to my Mom about having so many children she would smile, and say, "yes, we are truly blessed to have so many children." Or she would look at them sweetly and say, "hmm... which one don't you think I should have had?" when they couldn't answer she would say something like, "yeah, we couldn't decide either."
Good luck with all of your kids
