Many of the people reading this blog know I have many young children. The other day as I was shopping with them all my oldest daughter turned around and asked me "Mommy, why does everyone stare at us?". I began explaining that we have a larger than average family and so people are naturally curious. Although I was trying to shed positive light on the subject she knew that that wasn't the only reason. She told me that people look at us like that don't like us and wanted to know why. It really breaks my heart that my children will soon begin to notice that we are scorned quite often by many people. Not for who she is or who we are as people but because of the fact that we are a large family.
I have learned to ignore or block out people's nasty responses to us unless they're forward and come up to me to say something ridiculous to us. I suppose my children must learn to do the same thing too.
