I (Wendy) wish we had industrial size everything, but we don’t. We have a standard stove and a modest sized kitchen. We do have extra large novelty items like a 20-qt. soup kettle, an electric roaster that can easily fit a 20-lb turkey, a Kitchen Aid, two refrigerators and a 15-cubic foot chest freezer. Chris…
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Jan
28
2006
How do you cook for such a large family?
Jan
28
2006
How do you deal with all the toys you have?
We keep all the toys in large bins. We don’t have shelves or a play room. When the kids get too many toys to manage, we start throwing the broken ones out or consider getting rid of the old, less interesting toys altogether. We go through toys fast; our kids wear them out. Truth be…
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Jan
28
2006
How do you keep a clean house?
Clean house? To be honest, having a dozen or so kids in the house makes messes very quick. However, we believe that a dozen kids can clean the house just as fast. Here’s what we do to utilize the man power at the Jeub home. “Two-minute clean ups” are quite popular around here. The parent…
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Jan
28
2006
What do you drive?
We have graduated to larger and larger vehicles over the years. Our family is so big, even a 15-passenger van seems crowded. This is what we drive: a 15-passenger van. (Chris has a smaller Ford Explorer for work.) We like to have the back seat out for storage, allowing us the ability to haul all…
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Jan
28
2006
How do you keep your groceries between $500-$700/month?
I (Wendy) have gathered perhaps a couple hundred frugal tips over the years. I cover a lot of these in several of our books. Love in the House has an entire chapter on living frugally, and Love in the Kitchen Vol. 1 and Vol. 2, my cookbooks, have opening chapters on how to save hundreds…
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Jan
27
2006
Moms of Large Families Are Barefoot, Fat and Ugly
Take a moment to imagine what a mother of 11 births looks like. Imagine this mother’s sanity, her weight, and her looks. If you are truthful, you will likely have a picture of someone like the title of this web log suggests: barefoot, fat and ugly. This is a perspective most people have of mothers…
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Jan
20
2006
Childfree by Choice
Here’s a news item for you: According to the National Center for Health Statistics, in 1975 about one in eleven women was childless by the age of 44. By 1993, that number had risen to approximately one in six. 34.9 million American families were childless and only 33.3 million families had a child under the…
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Jan
17
2006
DC Talk’s Toby McKeehan Rates Success on Family
Best known as the lead rapper in the successful multi-platinum group DC Talk, Toby McKeehan, nicknamed “tobyMac,” is also a songwriter, producer and businessman. On stage or behind the scenes he’s president of Gotee records, too–it seems everything tobyMac touches turns to gold. Commercial success aside, 37-year-old McKeehan shines brightest when he talks about his…
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