You know those people. The ones that offer you advice, when you didn't ask. The ones who aren't like you. They don't know you or even more so don't know how God is working in your life. They think they know better for you than you do. Well, I work with one of those. I don't know why but she feels the need to give me advice about my family. It is not advice I have asked for or advice I need. You see I don't need anyone to tell me that having a BIG family can be hard, it is. I don't' need anyone to tell me having a BIG family is expensive, it is. I know it because there are many days we are reminded of that. Like when we sit for hours at the kitchen table doing homework or go to a fast food restaurant and it is $35, that used to be a nice dinner out for two. Or on the nights it takes an hour and a half to do bedtime with all our kids. Or when I look at the mounds of laundry, the shoes and toys strewn around the house. But the thing is I LOVE my BIG family, I would not have it any other way. I actually dream of it getting BIGGER someday. I know that may sound crazy but I love the thought of it! I know I cannot make someone else understand how BLESSED I feel but I sure wish I could. I just don't know how to respond to her "advice". Maybe my new Mantra can be BLESSED TO BE STRESSED, I could even get a t-shirt.