You know you are a big family when...

~You get mobbed coming through the door after being gone a week.
~You never eat microwave dinners because it takes an hour and a half to cook enough to feed your family.
~You have to sit over half of your family on the floor because there isn't room on the couch when watching TV.
~You take polls on which movie to watch.
~You have to wait for a COMPLETELY empty elevator in order to all go on at once.
~You make a weekly shopping trip to Costco.
~You make enough food per meal to serve a small army.
~You think a mini van is a sports car.
~Your youth group request to use your van outings.
~A gallon of milk only lasts a meal
~You're thinking about putting in an outhouse to decrease the traffic jams at the bathroom.
~It cost over thirty dollars to eat at McDonalds.
~You have to do AT LEAST three loads of laundry a day to stay caught up.
~You can never find a hairbrush even though there is 5 in circulation.
~It takes a loaf of bread and a brick of cheese to make ONE meal of grilled cheese.
~You can't all fit into one row at the movie theater.
~You consider yourself lucky to find a clean towel.
~The moment you leave for college your room is given to a different kid.
~Going to the movie theater costs $60.
~You know you're from a big family when it takes several hours to make a meal.
~You leave one of your siblings at church and you don't realize it for hours.
~A simple dinner meal is compiled of two whole chickens, 8 pounds of potatoes, 2 pounds of carrots, a gallon and a half of tea, 2 loaves of bread, and 2 dishwasher loads full of dishes.
~Your family is referred to as "the rest of the congregation."
~You drive a van to college instead of a sports car or truck.
~You have to empty the garbage can after every meal.
~At a diner the waitress asks you if the kids are all yours.
~At a diner all the other diners are mouthing number as the family marches past the tables ....1,2,3,4,5...
~You can make a whole soccer team with just your siblings.

And this is just the begining :)