I have 3, he has 5 and together that makes 8. We are 5 years into our blended family and we’ve heard it all. “Are they all yours?”, “you’ve got your hands full”, “You’ve been busy”, “don’t you own a tv?”. I’ve seen people physically count my kids as we have walked by and most of the time I am ok with it. Truth is these days our family is becoming normal in the sense that it is blended, and odd in another purely due to it’s size.
I have built up an ammunition of responses to the comments and try to say it with a laugh, because for the most part, people don’t mean offence when they comment they are just interested. My ammo includes gems like “if you’d rather watch TV than have sex, your not doing it right”.
They are all ours, is always met with a resounding yes. Although not technically true mechanically, we are married and invested in this family so although not technically blood related we are one family. When we explain to people that we are actually a blended family, they immediately say “oh, like the Brady bunch?”. This is the one comment out of all of them that frustrates me the most, only because I wish it was that easy. Can I remind you of a very important member of the Brady family, she cooked and cleaned and ran errands…….. here’s a big clue, it wasn’t Mrs Brady.
I don’t have an Alice to help me. What I do have though is a kick arse calendar on my kitchen wall and 10 kg washing machine. You also never heard the term “shared parenting”, or “court orders” in the hit show either. Can we do a 2018 version with a few updates? How do you think the Brady teens would cope with social media?
We are happily married, have an epic routine, our own business, 2 dogs, 3 boys, 5 girls…… 8 you heard it right 8!!
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