It seems as though the opinions on a perfect number vary greatly depending on religion, upbringing and pure personal preference. I have heard people bad mouth my husband and I for having so many kids. By the same token, I’ve been chastised for choosing to stop procreating. If we lived in China, we’d be almost quadruple our allowed number of children. It seems ludicrous that the government is allowed to make that kind of decision for an individual, but they are communists, after all.

Some couples are told that having only one child, deprives that child of the joys of siblings. Though if you ask my kids, they would gladly be an only child. I never thought that we’d have as many as we did, though the thought of a big family was so cool after I got to know my husband’s family of fifteen. As much as the kids may fight and drive us insane, I love that we had the number that we did. Seven is our magic number. What is yours? 

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The Magic Number