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I hate stupid questions.

July 18, 2013 by Adrienne

I took the kids out for ice cream this afternoon with a friend. She also has six kids. The cashier asked if all of those kids were mine. When I told her six of them were, she sputtered, and then, honestly, said,

“Tell me. How does that happen? I mean really, how does it happen?!”

Let me just throw out there that she was old enough to know how these things happen. I wasn’t sure what exactly she wanted me to say. If it was biology, I wasn’t going there with my children within earshot. Who am I kidding? I wasn’t going there anyway. Really now.

I should have said something clever about a stork or how it was raining children one day or how someone just dropped them off on my doorstep and told me to have fun. But I didn’t. I muttered something about wanting a large family and loving my children and left it alone.

But really. How would you answer that?!

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About Adrienne

A homeschooling mother of nine, ages 17 and under, I chronicle life, laughs, struggles, and lessons learned as I raise a larger-than-most sized family and try to laugh about the craziness.

Comments

  1. Roxanne says

    July 18, 2013 at 5:33 pm

    I liked the one where it was raining children one day. Great comeback if you can remember it next time.

  2. Sue says

    July 18, 2013 at 8:52 pm

    One time I was asked if they all had the same daddy – that was when I only had 4, and before the transracial adoption. There is no bottom of the stupid ocean, is there.

  3. Kristin says

    July 18, 2013 at 9:31 pm

    I would respond exactly like what you wrote here. I would ask “do you really NOT know how it happens?”. Sometimes people just need their own stupid questions pointed out to them.

  4. Charlotte Moore says

    July 19, 2013 at 7:49 am

    VOTED!!!!

  5. Anonymous says

    July 19, 2013 at 12:41 pm

    “It happens with a purpose. That purpose being to raise a future generation of wise, intelligent, loving, caring individuals who will make this world a better place and hopefully share that purpose with their own children so that the world will not implode or waste away for the want of those things.”-M (broken-hearted for the utter lack of respect for life this society shows regularly)

  6. Roxanne says

    July 19, 2013 at 4:44 pm

    I voted!

  7. Brittany says

    July 19, 2013 at 5:09 pm

    Next time say “Yes, we know how it happens and we LIKE it”! That’s my plan….if I can ever find the guts to actually speak it. And when they say that I have my hands full I always heartily agree…they are full…of BLESSINGS! 🙂 But truly, where do people get the idea that it is OK to ask such rude questions.

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