Tiffany Gee Lewis on MormonTimes.com: Explaining that large Mormon family

Published: Tuesday, Oct. 21 2008 12:10 a.m. MDT

One of the signatures of our Mormon faith is our penchant for having large families.

So here we are, expecting our fourth child. When people ask me why I'm having a fourth, I don't quite know how to answer.

Of course, this question usually comes when we're in the grocery store checkout aisle, where Sons 1 and 2 are eating each other's fingers, Son 3 is still wearing his pajamas (in the mid-afternoon) and my own outfit, which was clean when I put it on that morning, sports enough stains of the day to be mistaken for Joseph's Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat.

"So," says the store clerk, glancing at my children, then my belly. "You're having another one?"

"Oh, yes," I say, throwing her my most winning smile. "I just love children."

I grit my teeth and gently usher the boys and the grocery cart out to the car.

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