- OFF TO THE PARK! -

maddie (3)

karleigh (4)

ruby (5)

kiara (5)noah (6) katharine (8) maddie karleigh ruby kiara noah (aka... duck man) katharine maddie, karleigh & ruby kiara, noah & katharine kiara, noah, maddie, ruby, katharine & karleigh

the caswells came this morning at 7am as kyle & angie had a homeschooling convention to attend & we get their kiddos (YEAH) - i think we're getting the better deal here!! - i'd decided last night that i was going to take everyone to the park today as it was supposed to be a beautiful day (they were right!) - it's to rain over the next couple days so we were hoping it wouldn't start raining earlier than they thought

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we went & picked kiara up from school & her teacher came to the car & said, "boy, kiara's been so excited about you picking her up today as she said you'd have all her cousins with you & i can see you do!" (hehe) - we loaded up lunch, lawn chairs & a camera & set out for the afternoon - well, as you can see in the pictures above, we had a wonderful time today at the park! - we were there for about 2½ hours & with 6 kids & no bathrooms, they did great!! - mom & madisyn met us there & we'd lunch & then played

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we then came home & now they're all napping (shhh)

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something that happened when i was leaving was this (keep in mind there had been 2 women & about 4 little girls all at the park while we were there, but we'd not spoken as when we were eating, they were playing & while they were eating, we were playing) - mom & madisyn had left about 15 minutes prior to us & so as i'm 'herding the kids' back to the car calling out things like, "karleigh c'mon, maddie keep movin', kiara quit scratchin', etc.", i hear one of the women say, "excuse me, but are they all yours?"

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well the wind was soooooooooooooooo strong & the kids were already running ahead of me towards the parking lot, so i just said, "yeah" so i didn't have to explain who belonged to what family, etc.

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she then went on & said, "well, are they all by the same father?" - i said, "nope, between all 6 of them, there's 5 different birth fathers... y'all have a great day!" (can you believe it!!) - now, i know what that made me look like, but at that point, i didn't care! - how rude she was to even ask, so for that i just replied what was on the tip of my tongue & smiled... leaving them both with their mouths hung open in disbelief *smile*