206: Why Do We Have to Have All These Kids?!

Mint Arrow Messages

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🗓️ 9 January 2023

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

How many kids is the perfect, ideal amount? What's the best family size? Is it wise to have a big family? These are some of the questions we'll explore today as well as tell our own story on how we decided to have 5 kids and what led up to that big decision! We're also sharing an announcement so stay tuned for that and we hope you know how grateful we are for your listenership and for being here as part of our Mint Arrow Messages family.

Time Stamps:

[00:33] - Corrine and Neil have an announcement to make. What’s the big news?

[02:05] - Have you ever watched It’s a Wonderful Life?

[04:15] - Corrine still has a picture of Neil changing his first diaper. Why does the photo make them laugh?

[06:43] - Corrine originally thought the family would cap at three children until she felt a prompting.

[08:59] - When did Corrine get a prompting to have another child? What did Neil think?

[10:58] - Corrine and Neil thought four kids was definitely the final number.

[13:03] - Corrine and Neil started feeling like someone was missing from the family. PART 1

[16:00] - Corrine and Neil started feeling like someone was missing from the family. PART 2

[18:52] - You think once you follow God’s plan he’ll make it easy. That’s not always true.

[21:50] - Why has this recent pregnancy felt like a little miracle after a little miracle?

[23:27] - God qualifies those he calls for his plans.

[25:02] - What is the general idea of a “perfect” family? Does it matter?

[27:28] - People can have different perceptions of what life looks like with their family.

[30:28] - Corrine feels blessings are on the other side of following God’s plan.

[32:14] - You will rise to the occasion when you need to.

[35:04] - Corrine says it’s so awesome to see kids grow and become more self-reliant.

[37:23] - When we put our trust in the Lord, he helps us be more than what we thought we could.

Supporting Resources:

“Americans, in Theory, Think Larger Families Are Ideal” Gallup article

“Be Not Afraid, Only Believe” Talk by Jeffrey R. Holland

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0:00.0	How many kids is the perfect ideal amount? What is the best family size? Is it wise to have a big family?
0:07.6	These are some of the questions we'll explore today as well as telling our own story on how we decided to have five kids and what led up to that big decision.
0:16.2	We also are going to share an announcement, so stay tuned for that and we hope you know how grateful we are for your listenership and for being here as part of our Mint Arrow Messages
0:25.1	family. So we are starting this episode off with a little bit of an announcement that I wasn't planning
0:39.6	on making because I had this whole plan of recording. I had several episodes sketched out that
0:47.1	we were going to record. I had multiple interviews that I was trying to just batch back to back
0:52.5	during Christmas break and none of it has gone
0:55.7	according to plan because I've been experiencing what's called pro-drama labor, which is like
1:02.7	they're painful, consistent contractions, but they aren't productive because I'm not dilating
1:10.6	anyways. So because of all of that and because of
1:13.8	multiple trips to labor and delivery in the last week, we have not been able to pre-record anything
1:19.7	and it's looking like I'll have this baby any day now. So we are going to take a little bit of a
1:25.4	break on the podcast for a few weeks until I feel ready to
1:29.6	come back and record new episodes. So when you see that we don't have new episodes for a few weeks,
1:35.1	that's why. But we will be back. It's not a forever break. It's just a few week break, hopefully.
1:40.0	So I wanted to start out and just let everyone know that.
1:50.6	But now we're going to, instead of just living you with like a two-minute announcement and nothing else,
1:55.5	I was really trying to be prayerful about what we could talk about that would be helpful.
2:04.0	And the topic that just keeps coming to my mind is having kids and families and bringing children into the world.
2:05.3	And so I thought I'd kick off this episode with kind of a funny little thing that Neil and
2:10.8	I always laugh about.
2:12.2	And that's when we watch, it's a wonderful life, which we love to do every Christmas.
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