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Chapter twenty three, part seven

During the funeral, Deborah watched her mother standing next to her father. Helping him with his own grieve and supporting his mother. She stood by him as promised during their wedding. Deborah started to wonder if she would miss her own parents. Her mother had moved away from her mother a long time ago. Her parents were married for thirty years now. And even though she didn't know her real father she had a man who had been a good father to her. Deborah knew him good and didn't hesitate one second to say that. He had been a great grandfather to her. Deborah thought back to the time she had spend at her grandparents house far away from were she was living now. Maybe her greatgrandparents were also dead now. They would be very old if they would still be living. They had been such wonderful people. Never a bad word about anything but always encouriging. Deborah did miss them and wished she would be able to see them again. That was the only thing she wasn't aloud to do. Well, together with pleny other things. And all because they were scared about the rest of the world finding out about her son living far away with Phillip and Alicia. Eight years old would he be by now. Such a big boy. She wondered how he would look like now. Did he still have such dark hairs? Did he look like her? Or more like Thom? Thom. She hadn't seen him since years. Like he vanished from earth. Those people were all from a different time in her life. She remembered them clearly but would they remember her?

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Chapter twenty three, part four

After such a nice afternoon with her family, even though her grandfather had passed away and they would all see eachother later that week at his funeral, Deborah walked with Israel on her hip straigt to the bedroom of her youngest children. They were all tired. Help from Aidan wasn't on the list of expectations. Deborah was used to doing it all alone. She had her strategy and her children all very well knew what was to be expected from them. They all learned pretty quickly that they had to wait sometimes.

When she had all her children in the beds Deborah went straight to her own bed. She was also tired after such a long afternoon filled with emotions. Tomorrow would be another day she had to do with all her children while Aidan worked. Maybe she also had to do some stuff for the funeral. Although Anna had promised her that she had to take her rest. If one person knew how huge her burden was it was her. Anna, as the oldest, had always been in charge of the younger once. Even when she was just little herself. Deborah, as the fourth daughter of her parents wasn't used as such until later. Years later she now had many children while Anna was still at home, single, taking care of the younger ones.

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Chapter twenty three, part three

Coming back home from the birthdaysunday was a bit different then Deborah had expected. During the celebration a phonecall had interupted them. Her grandfather had died in the hospital. The call came just before Israel would get his presents. It was a good thing they ended with him and not her father or Hadassa. Especially not with Shiloh. Her youngest sister turned eight years old and was always looking for a way not to feel small and overlooked. It was still weird that her youngest sister and brother were younger then some of her own children. Evan, who was far away was older then both of them. Andrew was only older then Timothy. They enjoyed playing together a lot. Gerald, the son of Bernice and Gerald often joined then. They were a good group together. Deborah liked her son having a nephew and uncle close in age to play with. Most of her children had that. While she had a lot of boys, her married siblings also had boys. When she had Priscilla, there was a string of girls. Deborah hoped that now that she had another girl some of her brothers or sisters would also have a girl for Camilla to play with on family occasions.

After the phone call came they all started to bring up memories they had from their grandfather. Deborah was sad about losing her grandfather but thinking about all those memories was nice. Talking about them with all her siblings was even nicer. The only think that frustrated her was Aidan. He always had to be the reverent. If only he could be just a person for once. He talked on and on about how their grandfather was now in heaven and all the other stuff that came with dead. Deborah sighted when she thought about it. Espically when he came with all sorts of bibleverses and explainations that didn't make sense to her. And when she asked about them he would sigh that woman never understood those kind of things. Deborah shook her head. She understood a lot but he just didn't make sense.

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Chapter twenty three, part two

At her parents house they would make big piles for every person who had their birthday that month. Now that so many of Deborahs brothers and sisters were married there were many more presents to hand out. Most of the time different groups bought a present so they could buy something a little bit bigger instead of serveral smaller presents. Deborah had bought presents together with Hadassa and Bernice. It was also nice to discuss a little together what to buy. It made it all easier.

When everybody got there they started to sing for the birthdayboys and girls. After that they ate cake. Everytime there were different people who made the cake. They all took turns. Deborah was excused because of her pregnancy. Just a month and a little bit before the baby would be here. She probably would deliver before the due date as she always did. After the cake it was time for the presents. They made it a rule to start with the youngest but Deborah said that this time they could finish with the youngest because Israel would be turning one and didn't really understand what was happening so it wouldn't matter. Her other birthdaychildren, Judah and Priscilla had a better understanding of what a birthday entiled. Priscilla turned two years old and was very excited about getting presents. Her real birthday was already a couple days ago. Judah and Israel still had to turn five and one.

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Chapter twenty two, part seven

Then it was time for her to go to her own bedroom. She had enjoyed her day but was ready to get some sleep. Deborah had talked with Hadassa a lot. They were more alike. With their personalities but also in fertility. Hadassa was only married for a year and a half. She got her first ten months after her weddingdate and was already expecting baby number two. It would arrive around her second anniversary with Garrett. Deborah hoped for her younger sister that she would have a girl early on. So she could get some help with all those children who would probably follow in the coming years. Just like it did with Deborah. Hadassa was a bit older then Deborah had been when she got married. She would turn twentyone before her baby would arrive. By the time Deborah turned twenty one she and Aidan already had four children.

Aidan was already asleep when she was ready to crawl into her bed. She probably wouldn't be asleep soon. Camilla would wake up and keep her awake a little while longer. She didn't mind her keeping her awake. It was nice to have some time feeling her daughter clearly. Most of the days she was so buzy with her other children she didn't have time to think about her baby in her belly. In her bed she did. She wondered about how Camilla would be and how she would look like. Most of her children had her curls. Their haircolors were more divided. She touched her belly and waited for Camilla to return. It didn't take long. Her little baby girl. It was nice for Priscilla to have a sister. And it was nice for her to have some help from daughters in the future.

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Chapter twenty two, part five

Coming back home from a long day, Deborah was happy that Aidan took Priscilla to the nursery. While she had thought to make both a boy and a girlroom she didn't feel like that was fair at the moment. Priscilla would have a room for herself while the boys would be cramed with six of them in one room. So she devided the rooms between the four older boys and the three younger ones. Camilla would join them once she was old enough to sleep without her near her.

Aidan wasn't a huge help after all. He just put Priscilla with her good clothes in her crib and walked away. Deborah had to change her and put her down for the night after she put Israel in his crib. They both were easygoing baby's. Nothing compared to some of the older boys. So she didn't have much trouble getting them in their cribs.

Joel was a bit more work. He was tired and therefor much more stubborn as he already was. But in the end she could leave the room having her three youngest in their beds.

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Chapter twenty two, part four

Deborah didn't knew if the women from church looked with her with pity or with jealousy. She had given birth to seven, soon eight children in some kind of recordtime. Not even her parents had so many children in such a short time. She had children within a year after eachother two times in a row while nobody in church had ever had that happen to them. Nobody was surprised when she announced she was expecting again while still having a little baby in her arms. She and Aidan had more children then some couples who were married way before them. Aidan was very proud at his growing quiver. He said he showed the people of their church how it was done. Deborah thought it was better that no one followed in their footsteps. Taking care of so many little children without much help was hard. Her mother would send a sibling to her house reguarly to help out but most of it came on her own sholders and that was though. But she had to be thankful for her children. Complaining wasn't something she was aloud to do. Especially not about children, they were a gift from the Lord. You don't complain about gifts.

Her life was mostly at home taking care of her children, day in day out. Teaching the oldest ones while watching the little ones. And doing the household tasks in between. Just thinking about all of it made her dizzy. Today it wouldn't be a day like that. She had the wedding. Her children would be looked after by their aunts while she could sit down enjoying some relaxing time in the middle of all those people.

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Chapter twenty two, part two

Deborah herself was now mother to seven children. Six boys and one daughter. Her parents were blessed with many daughters at the beginning of their marriage. Her father didn't really like it as he longed for a son but for Deborahs mother it was very handy to have so many girls helping her taking care of the little ones. Deborah now knew how nice it was as her only daughter wasn't even two years old yet and wasn't of any help yet. Her boys had to do more then her own brothers had to do in the past.

Her parents now had it easy in the house. Ofcourse the older girls weren't at home to do most of the work but Anna still wasn't married and did most of the things for way less people then it used to be when Deborah was still living with her parents. Five boys, Jacob, Lucas, Oscar, Peter and Timothy were still living at home. And six more girls, Anna, Kaitlyn, Maria, Neveah, Ruth and Shiloh. The youngest, Timothy, was already six years old. No more little ones in diapers to look after. The bedrooms were emptier then Deborah could remember from her yought. It was weird to come back to her parents house and see all the changes that happend while she was already married. It wasn't her home anymore.

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