Byline: TESSA CUNNINGHAM
BEING a mother is exhausting, demanding and endlessly challenging, but it can also be the best job in the world. One woman who definitely thinks so is Sue Povey, who's just had her 15th baby. Sue, 43, and husband, Ian, 45, a supply analyst with BMW earning around u28,000 a year, head what is probably Britain's largest middleclass family. Here, Sue, who lives with her family in a u240,000, six-bedroom detached house in Swindon, describes life in the mother of all households .. .
Dimmable LED Down Light K1009H - 1x10WMOST of the checkout assistants at my local supermarket know me by now, but if there's a new girl on duty when I pay for my u200 shop on a Monday, she'll always ask if I'm having a party. Then I have to explain that 'no - it's just the weekly shop'.
It's typical of the amazement whenever people discover how many children I have.
When we took our family camping on the Isle Of Wight recently, the site owner asked if we were a party from a children's home.
She was flabbergasted when I explained that they were all our own.
And when we visit museums or art galleries, we always get offered school party rates.
So many women have asked me why I didn't stop long ago, but nothing can beat the incredible surge of joy I feel every time I give birth.
Some women are passionate about shoes. Others crave handbags. I'm addicted to babies. I enjoy every minute of being a mother, but there's something so special about holding a newborn in your arms.
My latest arrival, Isabelle, was born on March 1. She may be less than a month old, but already I'm thinking about baby number 16.
My family comprises two young women with babies of their own, one committed career girl, an ambitious student, one stroppy teenager, four boisterous boys, one nine-year-old, three mischievous little girls under seven, a toddler and a new-born baby.
Each of my children is utterly adorable and unique. And, while my life is definitely exhausting, it's endlessly stimulating. It may fly in the face of modern thinking that women are fulfilled by careers as well as motherhood but, for me, being a mother is the most satisfying job on earth.
One minute I'm crouching on the ground sipping imaginary tea from a make-believe cup at a dolly's tea party; the next I'm having a heart to heart with one of the boys about girlfriend problems. Moving from toddler tantrums to teenage hormonal problems is second nature now.
I love the fact my children are all very different and I have to tailor the way I treat them. It's a constant challenge.
Quite simply, my children bring out the best in me. With them I'm patient, caring and selfless. I simply don't understand women who want to escape from their children to ' rediscover' themselves in led t8 tube replacemen the office.
How can the nice holidays and flash cars they regard as necessities make up for all they are missing out on?
And I'm convinced there's nothing nicer for a child than having their mother at home.
ABBIE came rushing out of school a few days ago with a picture to show me.
She was babbling excitedly because the teacher had pinned it on the wall, it was so good. Imagine if she'd had to wait until bedtime or even the morning to tell me her news? That precious
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