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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Thinking back to that wonderful day you got slash marriage as how you put the toilet paper roll on or who's going to clean the dishes tonight or maybe a tube of toothpaste.

Now for me it was the toothpaste and it wasn't a fight but what I thought was a cute little habit of, and I think I might have mentioned this previously,

Dina brushing her teeth back then, and she would kind of throw her toothbrush.

So she doesn't brush her teeth now? Not the same way. Oh, got you.

So she would brush your teeth and throw the toothbrush in the sink and then rinse it off.

And it was sort of like, why do you have to throw it in the sink?

I thought it was kind of cute until I had to deal with it every day in my sink.

It's sort of like, why do I have to pull your toothbrush out of the sink?

Now we have solved that problem because she's listened to me and we bought a place with two sinks now.

So it's all whatever.

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