Same song, second verse.

It used to be that when I was in public with my little ones in tow I often got the inevitable comments. "Are they ALL yours?" "My, you have your hands full." "Are you going to have any more?" Now these days I have the luxury of going out in public all by myself. Even leisurely wandering the aisles of the grocery store taking time to compare prices and nutritional value. However the comments haven't stopped--they've only changed. "Is that milk on sale?" "Do you freeze that?" "You should get a cow."




I usually buy milk 6 to 8 gallons at a time. It might last us a week. We can easily go through one and a half gallons a day, two in the summertime. It's a rare shopping trip when someone doesn't make a comment about the quantity of milk in my cart. So, "No, it's not on sale, but I sure wish it was." "I haven't tried freezing it--it wouldn't thaw fast enough for my brood." And, "Yes, we should look into getting a cow, but somehow I don't think the neighbors would like the smell."

But we've been raising kids for nearly 20 years now and haven't had one broken bone.

Got milk?