Welcome to .com!  This site is designed to give helpful insight for parents raising several children, as well as plenty of good information and resources that would benefit the average person (parent or not!). We ourselves are raising four children and so the information shared is original and arises from our own research and life experience.

Our half-dozen sized family consists of my husband, Richard,  the senior pastor at our local evangelical Presbyterian church; myself, Renee, a stay-at-home mom who has been a math and health teacher for a private high school; and our four children, ages: 15, 14, 12, and 10.

We are currently living in our new home in Delaware, but have lived most of our single and married lives in western Pennsylvania.  As I reflect on our 21 years of married life, I am overcome with praise and gratitude for the many, MANY blessings we have experienced.  Having four children did not come easy to us.  I was pregnant three times, had three consecutive miscarriages before our first daughter, Allyson, came to us.  We were thrilled at the prospect of finally having a child full term, only to soon realize months later that our beautiful newborn was born with hydronephrosis (she had 4 kidneys, and her ureters were quite tangled at the bladder).

We nearly lost her, but by the grace of God, and the hundreds of prayers that went up for her, God miraculously saved her life, kept her from shock, and healed her body from the severe consequences that dehydration can have on an infant.  Soon after, three more beautiful gifts were added to our family, and we having been “living” out those blessings ever since.