Does Anyone Else Love This?

i've always been around kids. when i was younger my mom babysat, i worked in daycare for a number of years, we have i don't know how many great grandkids, i have all of them sleepover when i can, the neighbors kids, etc. i'm watching my niece right now, and they are so funny. they are playing like they are having a party and everyone has to dress up super nice and have fake names. :). and they are listening to Willow Smith and dancing like crazy!!! we make homemade pizzas and cookies. and they can go into the garage and make cities with chalk and take out the hotwheels. i put the sprinkler out and they make mud slides and roll in the mud. i guess they like it at my house because i'm the only one who lets them do this kind of stuff besides my SIL.

I have always had a house full of kids, I was raised in a housefull of kids I can honestly say I dont mind it at all, it is easier for me than trying to keep one kid entertained. My DH on the other hand seems to have an aversion to kids I swear he gets worse the older he gets,

Nah, I can't say I love a housefull of screaming yelling stomping kids - the 2 I have are way enough, I am not looking forward to sleepovers and all that jazz - but then I am antisocial..

I love those conversations! Sometimes I even bothered to write them down. Here's one:
Child 1: I'm quite happy with my body the way it is.
Child 2: Oh yeah? Wait 'til I take off your arms and replace them with tentacles!

I'm almost beyond that now since my kids are 21 and 17, but especially with our oldest was in middle school and high school, our house too was the 'hang house.' Loved every minute of it! And the kids would invite my husband and I to come down and play ping pong or a game of pool.
What's just as funny is when you're driving a bunch of teens somewhere and they talk among themselves like you're not even there! You can learn a lot!

Oh yes I love it! We have 7 LOL

I hope not since I have this many everyday, 24 hours per day, 7 days per week. LOL. But today I'm loving that these little guys are dead tired. I have all boys here and they are all asleep already today.

Kids are great. I don't understand people that don't want a house full :)

You are making me so sad I am not a stay at home mom!!
That sounds like good times to me!

My kids are getting too old to be consistently sweet these days, but I'll give you a funny example from last night:

DD's toe is infected :( I called my sister because she's a nurse (and also the one who took DD for the pedicure causing the infliction) to talk to her about what I should do about it. Hung up the phone & said, "OK Hail, here's the deal," at which point DS chimes in with, "They're going to amputate your toe. That's what Aunt Beck said, I could hear her on the phone. If Mama tells you it's something else, it's just because she doesn't want to scare you." I looked at him in awe of his ability to come up with such a horrible lie on the spot like that & also to be so completely deadpan with his delivery. Took me quite a good while to assure her that's most definitely NOT going to be the end result! Ugh!

Me! Mine is the "hang house" and I love it!

I love listening to kids. They say the most sweetest and silly stuff. Plus they are so honest when they are just casually talking. It's cool to see what interesting to see what their minds come up with.

It depends on the kids--if my niece and nephew come over, all hell breaks loose. They have a very wild dynamic when combined with my boys. If my son's classmates and their siblings come over, it is actually much easier. We've only had a few play dates at our house, but I love them--plus it helps so that my boys don't get so stir-crazy while their little brother is sleeping his infancy away ;-)

Ooooooh yeah :) If I didn't have to get pregnant (and wasn't married to my husband) I'd have 5-10 of them. Preferably all adhd. As a matter of fact, kiddo's cousins are going to come stay with us next week, so it's just going to be me and 3 adhd kids. LOVE it! I take them every summer to give my SIL/BIL some alone time. My husband will also scoot, as he doesn't like children. Fun, fun, fun!

We always have extra kids even when the nanny is home with ours. The nieghbors think we have the best food and drinks (even though they only get water). At 6, 7 and 11 you never know what they will come up with.

oooohhhh I love a house full of kids!! going over to pick up one in about 15 minutes!!!

Are you sure we don't live closer? We've got some dark skies here too!!!

Love to listen to them talk...their opinions, views, etc. and how they treat others!!!

It depends on the ages ... I like a mix of age groups with at least two per group that is what makes it interesting to me. Oddly my neices and nephews plus my son are the perfect mix
Boys
16, 12, 12, 10, 4, 3
Girls
16, 15, 13, 13, 8, 7
With this group it works, they get along well and like I said age groups are good for the kids. The two 13yo girls need to be watched sometimes they are mischevious twins!

My kids are driving me batty right now! They lost the remote to the tv last night so I told them no tv, wii or computer until they find the remote! Its now 9:30am and they have been up since 6 and no one has been able to find it. I think it was sucked out of the house in the monsoon that hit us last night...its going to be a long day...can they come over to your house??? ;o)

With all of our tornados, I would be scared as hell! My body could not cover them all! Pretty sad I think like that. But in my baby's short life I have had her in the basement 4 times fearing for her life. Hate storms now!

I love thunderstorms, but not lightning storms. I love a house full of kids. As long as the older ones don't pick on the younger...

Sun. night I was in Gainesville when the lightning storm came through. Called to check in with the family. They were eating dinner by candle light. Not because the power had gone out, but in case it did they were ready! (my 4y idea. 'Momma, we're having a dinner candle party!')

Too cute!

I love thunderstorms, so yes I'd love to be in your shoes right now. But since it's hot and hot and hot here in Texas, with no forecast that says otherwise, I will stick to enjoying my air conditioned house with my one 3 yr old asleep for his nap. (Search the forecast for 78070 zipcode. 'HOT' from now until eternity it seems! We didn't get to do fireworks b/c of the drought. Some of our friends can't even BBQ on their outdoor grill due to the drought!)

Wouldnt have done daycare for 27 years if i didnt. I love the fun silly stuff they say. I love thunder storms too. I loved the times we had thunderstsorms when all the kids were here. We'd sit backwards on the couch and watch for the big flash in the sky and then we all yell BOOM BOOM BOOM and it kept them from being scared of the thunder. Fun stuff with kids!

I love it! My daughter is an "only" so whenever we have friends or my grandkids all together, it's so fun to watch what they come up with!

I actually do NOT get thrilled at the prospect of a house full of kids. I prefer to have one extra at a time. My kids are pretty well behaved and are not really loud inside (they learned inside/outside voices early, lol--probably because of the type of shift work my husband does, and he is sleeping at odd hours sometimes). They typically play very nicely together without lots of arguing or yelling or carrying on. Not that they don't have loads of fun, they do! Just with very low drama and stress. When MORE than one other kid gets mixed in, it feels like a zoo to me. When there is just one extra, they seem to tend to follow the "status quo" and behave in generally the same manner as my kids do. When there is more than that, they do whatever they do. Not sure if it is just me, or if lots of other kids (or maybe just the ones that get invited here?) are more out of control and loud than what I am accustomed to... My kids are by nature not screamers/shriekers/squealers and that is something that I very much appreciate. :)
Having kids use the scream/shriek/squeal to express joy or frustration stresses me out. Outside is one thing. Inside..... ugh. My nerves are tense and it makes me wonder how much longer until the end of the playdate.

I know I sound like an ogre, don't I? I'm really not. But I don't THRILL in having a house full. It just is outside my comfort level. Probably part of why we stopped at 2 kids. ;)

BUT, I DO love to "eavesdrop" on their conversations when we have an "extra" kid over.

I just love thunder storms.
Looks like it'll be heading my way this afternoon (which will make my satellite internet connection iffy for awhile which will make work difficult) but we need the rain.
At my son's day camp, if there's interesting weather brewing, many of the kids will squeal with excitement (and with 30 kids, the squealing can get a little high pitched and grate on the ears).

A house full of kids doesn't bother me in the least. It only gets bad if there is a tired one in the bunch cause they get sooooo needy.

Some of my friends think it is funny when they come to drop off one kid and I am like, heck leave the rest, have some fun alone....

The other cool thing is sometime they take my kids so I get down time.

Once you have one guest at the house adding more really doesn't change the dynamic.

Yep. I love it too! Although my husband doesn't! LOL
My oldest (now 19) was never quite as social or willing to invite kids over. But my younger too (15 & 8) always have kids over. My oldest says our house is like the tribe of the children AND their dogs, because some of the kids bring their dogs with them! LOL
Nowadays my oldest is more interested and she'll sometimes have 8-10 friends over at 10pm at night for a "jacuzzi" night!
And my teens have had pool parties with 10-20 kids here! Wild times!
We don't care. I'd much rather they hang her and I know what they're doing. And sometimes I think the other kids enjoy it because they like feeling welcome.
Enjoy - it will only get wilder as they get older!!!