When his wife became pregnant with their fourth child Greg panicked, but a focus on the family counselor put everything into perspective.

He said, the first thing you need to realize if kids are a blessing, or all of the

blessing, that their gifts from God, and the second thing you said was, kids value

relationships, not stuff. Greg and his wife found the encouragement they needed and today they have a happy thriving family of seven children.

We have been really influenced by the culture and by just the kind of overall negativity about kids and to hear from someone, you know,

just godly truth that kids are special, that they're wanted and that they're a blessing was huge to us.

I'm Jim Daly and we love kids.

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I suppose the most surprising thing about marriage for me was that it really did bug me that the toothpaste cap always came off.

The thing that surprised me most about being married is that my husband stopped being a communicator once he had me.

Well, I had no idea that there was a proper way to roll the toilet paper,

that it goes a certain way.

See, I thought it was just anyway, but I found out quickly,

no, it has to roll over the top.

What's surprising me the most about marriage and it hasn't been that long.

I got married in January is that we didn't know each other quite as well as we thought we did.

You really, really get to know someone when you live with them. You pick up on

little quirks and everyone has them and you learn a lot about each other in a short amount of time.

Well how about you?

I wonder if there were unexpected discoveries about your spouse

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