Ooooh!  I’m so excited I think I’ll burst!  I have been wanting to start this for weeks and weeks and here it is!  I hope I can calm down enough to be coherent!

This is my brand new Mr. Linky called Help for Growing Families.  A place for more experienced moms of several children to share practical advice and helpful hints with new moms just starting out and with each other.

Almost all young (ok, all of us) moms are looking for helpful ideas to make their jobs a little easier or possible.  When God sends us many gifts it can be lonely territory.  And it can feel like you’re sailing in uncharted seas.

God has a plan for us though.  He tells us in Titus chapter 2:3-5,

3 The aged women likewise, that they be in behaviour as becometh holiness, not false accusers, not given to much wine, teachers of good things;

4 That they may teach the young women to be sober, to love their husbands, to love their children,

5 To be discreet, chaste, keepers at home, good, obedient to their own husbands, that the word of God be not blasphemed.

So, every week I’ll be hosting Help for Growing Families here at Ship full O’ Pirates.  I’ll be putting the Mr. Linky post up every Monday evening at about 9pm cst.

What kind of advice and practical help am I talking about?  Anything that makes life with lots of children in one family easier or more do-able.  Sometimes you just need to know how to get all that laundry done and kept in orderly fashion.  (Ah, laundry, my arch nemesis!)  Or how about how to feed ‘em all without goin’ broke and having to give up gasoline!  Or maybe you have a good way to grocery shop with all of your children with you.  Any helpful, mothers-of-several type advice.  Every week, girls, just write a helpful bit of advice and link up here.

Here’s my 2 cents for this week.

There was a time when we had to house all of the Pirates in one bedroom.  That’s 5 boys in one 11′x10′ bedroom.  Yes it was a tight fit, but we got it done.  Here’s how.  One set of bunks, full-size on the bottom and twin-size on the top.  And a crib.  Oldest Pirate gets the top bunk all to himself.  Three middle sized Pirates on the bottom bunk, but turned sideways.  This is ok, and it works because these were very young Pirates (read short).  And of course, the baby Pirate goes in the crib.  This makes the room rather full, so the dressers go in the hallway or in another bedroom.  5 Pirates, one bedroom, no problem.

Now, dazzle me with your clever ideas and wise advice.

Enter your name and then, in parentheses, a 3-4 word description of your post in the first box.  In the second box enter your link to your post, don’t put the link to your home-page, just the link to the post.  Feel free to use the cool banner I made, and be sure to mention Help for Growing Families in your post and link back here.

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