Donny Osmond loves being a grandpa to 12 kids – cried in joy at long-awaited grandbaby’s birth

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Besides being a famous musician who has spent his entire life giving his fans plenty of memorable moments with his music and performances, Donny Osmond is also a father and a grandfather of 12.

Donny and his wife of many years, Debra Glan, welcomed five sons together, Don, Jeremy, Brandon, Christopher, and Joshua.

Today, Don has four kids with his wife Jessica, Jeremy has three children with Melissa, Brandon and his wife Shelby also have four kids, and Christopher has one baby with his wife Alta. As of Donny’s youngest son, he and his wife tied the knot in 2020 but decided to spend some years on their own before becoming parents.

Donny and Debra became grandparents for the first time in 2005, when Jeremy and Melissa welcomed son Dylan. This was a joyous moment for the Osmond family who tend to spend as much time together as possible.

Donny, who is super busy performing and making music, still finds the time to spend with his grandchildren.

In 2012, Osmond appeared on “The Talk” for a ‘Father’s Day Special’, and his eldest son Don made a surprise appearance alongside him to deliver some wonderful news. He told Donny that he was about to become a father for the first time. Don said, “I wasn’t the first to make you a grandfather, but Jessica and I have your fifth grandbaby.” Donny received the news with plenty of emotions and started crying. Later on, he even revealed why he got so emotional. “They’ve been trying for a long, long, long time, I’m very happy for them and I’m pretty happy myself too!”

Further, Donny said that his son and daughter-in-law had been experiencing fertility issues, but they were able to overcome them, and today, they share four beautiful children together.

“We officially have a dozen! Debbie and I are so excited that our 12th grand baby was born two weeks ago. Don and Jessi welcomed Christian, their 4th son, on Tuesday, December 29, 2020 and we are already in love,” Donny wrote on Instagram.

His grandchildren are involved in plenty of activities, and that includes sports and arts, and Donny is always by their side to support their dreams. One time, he flew home just to see one of his grandchildren play a football match. After the win, he expressed his satisfaction and said how proud he was.

When his other grandson had a basketball match, Donny went to see him and went to LA to continue his residency right after that.

Donny once tweeted that another of his grandchildren was a talented artists whose work has been displayed at the National Museum of History in Washington, DC.

When his first granddaughter was born, Donny was over the moon. “She has the most lovable personality and always makes sure that everyone has a friend. I’m so lucky to have this little girl in my life. In fact, I often refer to her as my sweet little princess,” he later wrote.

One thing about Donny is certain. He is a much involved grandfather anyone would ask for.

We wish the Osmond family only the best life brings.

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‘Jeopardy!’ fans outraged after all three contestants get stumped on this prayer question

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A recent episode of one of the most popular quiz shows there are, Jeopardy!, made many question Americans and their faith after three contestants failed to give an answer to what seemed a rather easy question related to Christianity.

Namely, one of the questions during the episode which was on on June 13 in the category “dadjectives” was “Matthew 6:9 says, ‘Our Father Which Art In Heaven’, This ‘Be Thy Name.’” The contestants were supposed to answer “hallowed” or rather, “what is hallowed,” per the quiz’s regulations, but they didn’t. Allegedly, this enraged a huge number of fans.

“Not one contestant on Jeopardy last night knew the answer to this…Are you waking up yet?” one Twitter user wrote.

“The Lord’s Prayer growing up was like knowing The Pledge of Allegiance. You just did,” another added.

“While it may not be a sign of the end times, if DEFINITELY speaks volumes about Americans and their faith…or lack of,” a third wrote.

People couldn’t help but wonder how could they all fail to recognize a fairly obvious indication.

“I’m an atheist and even I knew the answer to that lord’s prayer question,” one Twitter user said.

“My 4 year old niece got the answer on this Question on Jeopardy! Just wondering maybe the contestants never heard about The Lord’s Prayer?” another added.

“How can those Jeopardy! nerds not know this answer. Have they never listened to Iron Maiden?” someone joked, referencing the Iron Maiden song “Hallowed Be Thy Name.”

However, although the question was pretty simple, some viewers argued that the contestants likely refused to provide an answer due to their low scores at the time being. They may have chosen to play it safe rather than risk falling farther behind.

Other believe that the quiz includes too many questions related to Christianity having in mind that the contestants come from different religious backgrounds, which might be another reason they didn’t provide an answer to what seemed like an easy question.

Despite the fact that none of the three competitors knew the Lord’s Prayer, they did a bit better when it came to ’70s movies. “He starred in the 2 films whose soundtracks were the top 2 bestselling albums of 1978,” was the final question. As expected, they knew the right answer was Travolta, John while the soundtracks of Grease and Saturday Night Fever were on. The competitor who won, Suresh Krishnan, extended his winning streak to six games.

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Harry claims his father made evil ‘Spare’ joke the day he was born – he really wanted a daughter, Diana said

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Following Princess Diana’s tragic death, her two sons, William and Harry, were left in despair. The woman who meant the world to them was suddenly gone, and they were left in complete shock and experienced grief which is present until this very day.

Over the years, Harry accused the press for having part in his mother’s passing as they wouldn’t leave her alone. On the day she lost her life, she and her partner Dodi Fayed, the son of Egyptian billionaire Mohamed Al-Fayed, her driver Henri Paul, and her bodyguard Trevor Rees-Jones crashed the Mercedes in the Pont de I’Alma tunnel in Paris while trying to escape the paparazzi.

The surgeon who was working at the hospital in France the night Lady Di died, MonSef Dahman, has spoken of what had really happened and what led to losing the People’s Princess.

“The thought that you have lost an important person, for whom you cared personally, marks you for life,” he told Daily Mail.

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He recalled starting his shift at 8 a.m and being at the hospital the entire night. At approximately 2:06 a.m, around an hour and a half after Princess Diana’s accident, she was brought to the hospital. “I was resting in the duty room when I got a call from Bruno Riou, the senior duty anaesthetist, telling me to go to the emergency room,” Dahman told Daily Mail. “I wasn’t told it was Lady Diana, but [only] that there’d been a serious accident involving a young woman.”

The X-rays showed serious internal injuries, and Diana was given blood transfusion.

Sadly, she then suffered another cardiac arrest. Dahman performed a surgery but her heart couldn’t be restarted. “We tried electric shocks, several times and, as I had done in the emergency room, cardiac massage,” Dahman explained. “Professor Riou had administered adrenaline. But we could not get her heart beating again.”

“We fought hard, we tried a lot, really an awful lot,” he said. “Frankly, when you are working in those conditions, you don’t notice the passage of time. The only thing that is important is that we do everything possible for this young woman.”

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Harry recalled the moment he got word of his mother’s passing in his book, Spare. He described how his father sat beside his bed, telling him: “Darling boy, Mummy’s been in a car crash.

“There were complications. Mummy was quite badly injured and taken to hospital, darling boy,” Harry recalled his father saying. “He always called me ‘darling boy,’ but he was saying it quite a lot now. His voice was soft. He was in shock, it seemed.

“With a head injury. They tried, darling boy. I’m afraid she didn’t make it.”

The prince further claimed that Charles put his hand on his knee, saying: “It’s going to be OK,” but that he “didn’t hug” him.

“Everyone knows where they were and what they were doing the night my mother died,” Harry stated.

“I cried once, at the burial, and you know I go into detail about how strange it was and how actually there was some guilt that I felt and I think William felt as well, by walking around the outside of Kensington Palace.”

“There were 50,000 bouquets of flowers to our mother and there we were shaking people’s hands, smiling,” he continued. “I’ve seen the videos, right, I looked back over it all. And the wet hands that we were shaking, we couldn’t understand why their hands were wet, but it was all the tears that they were wiping away.”

Princes William and Harry walking behind her casket on the day of her funeral is an image many Britons could never forget.

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When then-Prince Charles and Lady Di got married, the pressure of having a baby shortly after the wedding was immense, so when William was born everyone was thrilled. However, the arrival of Prince Harry was a different story. According to Diana: Her True Story, Charles wasn’t happy that his second child was a son. “I knew Harry was going to be a boy because I saw on the scan,” she explained. “Charles always wanted a girl. He wanted two children, and he wanted a girl. I knew Harry was a boy, and I didn’t tell him.”

“First comment was: ‘Oh God, it’s a boy,’ second comment: ‘And he’s even got red hair,’” Diana added.

On the day of Harry’s christening, Charles allegedly told Queen Elizabeth, “We were so disappointed – we thought it would be a girl.”

“Mummy snapped his head off, saying: ‘You should realized how lucky you are to have a child that’s normal.’ Every since that day, the shutters have come down, and that’s what he does when he gets somebody answering back at him,” Diana said, adding that as Harry was born, their marriage “went down the drain.”

Among the rest, in his all-tell memoir Spare, Harry opened up about a joke his father made about him.

On the day Harry was born, Charles allegedly told Diana, “‘Wonderful! Now you’ve given me an heir and a spare — my work is done,’” Harry wrote of his dad’s words in Spare.

“On the other hand, minutes after delivering this bit of high comedy, Pa was said to have gone off to meet with his girlfriend,” Harry said, referring to now-Queen Camilla. “So, many a true word spoken in jest.”

Harry never truly overcame the grief and the pain that came with his mother’s passing.

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Kate Middleton was bullied at school – she was left ‘thin and pale’ after what classmates did to her, expert claims

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When Kate Middleton’s parents started their company, Party Pieces, the future Princess was just a five-year-old girl. As they were preparing for the celebration of her birthday, they realized that the market lacked elegant tablescapes, as per the Vanity Fair. This was how the idea for a business was born. Thanks to their company, the Middletons made millions and were able to provide great life for their three children, Kate, Pippa, and James, and that included boarding schools.

“Party Pieces was literally born at our kitchen table, so I suppose the ‘big break’ moment came when I realized there were lots of other parents looking for more affordable and imaginative partyware and that I had correctly identified a gap in the market for quality products that added something special,” Carole, Kate’s mother, told SheerLuxe.

“It was so exciting knowing I had a business idea that could work.”

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Not only Carole and her husband Michael were involved in the rise of the family company but their children too.

“Pippa wrote our ‘Party Times’ blog, James did the cakes when he first left school and Catherine developed our first birthday and baby category,” Carole revealed.

“My husband and I were young and a little inexperienced, but very enthusiastic, so we didn’t worry too much.”

It has been reported by a few magazines that nowadays the Middletons’ company is not doing well and that they are $3.3 million in debt.

However, back in the day, they were able to provide their children with quality education so Kate was sent to the all-girls boarding school Downe House for which her parents paid around £28,000 pounds in tuition. Sadly, that didn’t turn out to be the best decision as Kate experienced a very hard time there. According to her former classmates, she was often teased and bullied and she felt like she didn’t fit there.

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A friend at a later school, Gemma Williamson, previously told the Daily Mail, “Apparently, she had been bullied very badly, and she certainly looked thin and pale. She had very little confidence.” Kate’s former classmate Emma Sayle said the princess hated that her school was “cliquey.”

“It is a very cliquey school, and there was a lot of pressure,” she told RSVP Live, as quoted by Express.

“The girls were all high achievers, and there were lots of girls with eating disorders. Everyone wanted to be the best, the fittest, the prettiest. I think Kate was miserable from the start.”

“Being especially slender and a head taller than her peers, she stood out for the wrong reasons and was teased for being gangly and lanky,” royal expert Katie Nicholl added.

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Former Downe House student Georgina Rylance said how she believes Kate didn’t really fit in because she enrolled the school two years after her peers did. “It does make a difference going from eleven,” she told the Sunday Times, as per royal expert Katie Nicholl. “You have two years of bonding, your first time away all together. Even some of the most popular girls in my school had a hard time when they came in at thirteen.”

Further, Kate was really into hockey and the school only offered lacrosse, something that Kate hadn’t tried before. And even when she didn. she wasn’t good at it which made her disappointed.

When she told her parents how she felt, many said she was ‘too sensitive.’

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“Certainly, I have no knowledge of any serious bullying at all. But there’s what everyone calls bullying, and there’s actual, real, miserable bullying where someone had a dreadful time,” Susan Cameron, then headmistress the school, told The Mirror.

“That certainly didn’t happen. Yes, there would be teasing. It’s all a part of the normal competition of growing up, of establishing a pecking order,” she continued.

“Girls are cliquey by nature, and they can be rather cruel. If you’re attractive, too, that can be seen as rather a threat. They can sense those who are slightly weaker or who haven’t shown their strengths yet, and it’s those girls who are likely to end up being picked on or teased.

“I think it’s fair to say she was unsettled and not particularly happy. Maybe in Catherine’s case, she just kind of went quiet and didn’t say anything,” the former headmistress continued, adding that if Kate had been in deed badly bullied, she wouldn’t be the woman she is today.

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Eventually, Kate changed schools. She enrolled Marlborough College where she thrived and was loved by everyone. According to her former classmates, many boys were into her because she was s real beauty.

According to royal experts, Kate’s unpleasant experience has a lot to do with how she raises her children and that’s one of the reasons why she and William wish they have ordinary childhood.

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Prince William branded ‘rude’ after strange gestures toward Kate – there are tensions between them, royal expert claims

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Being a royal means building bridges with other royals from different countries in the world, and as it looks like, the Prince and Princess of Wales are in fact very close friends with other people of their kind.

Among the rest, Prince William developed a bond with Crown Prince Hussein of Jordan who married wife Saudi Rajwa al-Seif this months. As expected, William and Kate were in attendance. The ceremony took place at the Zahran Palace in Amman, Jordan, and among the rest of the guests were Princess Eugene and members of the monarchies from Japan, Belgium, the Netherlands, Sweden, Norway, and Denmark.

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During William’s official tour in the middle east in 2018, he visited Jordan where he met the Crown Prince Hussein. The two developed a special bond and remained very good friends. As per The Mirror, William was welcomed with open arms and spent time with Hussein at his residence at King Abdullah’s palace, Beit al Urdun, watching a football match.

What’s most, Kate Middleton once resided in Jordan when she was just a child after her dad Michael, who was a flight dispatcher for British Airways, was sent to work there. Kate was enrolled at an English-language nursery, meeting new friends from all over the world, including Japan, America, India, and, of course, Jordan.

Recalling those times, Sahera al Nabulsi, the founder of the Assahera Nursery which Kate attended as a child, said in a 2011 interview for The National, “The morning routine was to have all the children sitting in a circle where they would all sing Incy Wincy Spider, both in English and Arabic.

“We would read one verse from the Quran to improve the children’s Arabic and tell stories about the Prophet’s companions, like Omar Bin Khattab. The idea was to reinforce concepts such as respect and love.”

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Hanna Hashweh, chief executive of the Hashweh Corporation travel agency in Amman, remembers spending time with the Middleton family and said Kate was a lovely child who was never late.

“They lived in a two-story rented villa, close to a park and the nursery where Kate went. I remember she was a very beautiful little girl,” she told The National. “Kate’s father used to pick her up sometimes in his work uniform and the kids used to get very excited and run to see him. But most of the time the mother picked her up. She was always on time.”

Their stay in Jordan wasn’t a long one as the family returned to Berkshire in September 1986.

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The British royal family visited Jordan in 2021 when they took the famous family Christmas portrait. They posed at the legendary city of Petra, Jordan, which is on UNESCO’s World Heritage list and named one of the “New Seven Wonders of the World.”

On the wedding day of the Prince of Jordan, Kate wore a beautiful pink dress by the Lebanese designer Elie Saab and the bride wore a wedding gown by the same designer. The newlyweds paid tribute to William’s grandmother, late Queen Elizabeth II when they left the wedding for the reception in a 1984 Range Rover, specially customized for the queen’s visit to Jordan in 1984.

The day seemed to be an impeccable one, but something happened that caught the attention of many who branded William ‘rude.’ Namely, he greeted the bride and when Kate did the same she took some time to chat to her, William urged her to be quick by saying, “chop, chop.”

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Body language expert Judy James said this wasn’t one of William’s “finest moments when it comes to ether body language or words.”

“While he has clearly moved on from the meet and greet with the bride and groom, Kate stands talking to the bride in an animated and very friendly way,” James said. “She is not causing a ‘log jam’ [by] holding up the queue and the next guests are still talking to the groom, so there appears to be no logical reason for William to hurry his wife along, especially as she only adds a few seconds to the conversation.”

James praised Kate for ignoring her husband’s rude words but added that “It has to be said that his behavior is overly dominant here, with his critical parent behavior putting her firmly in the implied role of naughty child.”

“He could have walked back to stand beside his wife and used a subtle tie sign, like a small pat of the waist or back,” she suggested. “Most couples have subtle rituals that they use to communicate silently in public that don’t entail any obvious impatience, and the Waleses are normally very adept at these techniques.”

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Expert Rachel Burchfield on the other hand said William wasn’t disrespectful at all.

“Husbands, do not do this, don’t do this. William told Kate to ‘chop chop’ as she spoke to the bride,” she said during an appearance on the Podcast Royal. “First of all William, you were talking to the bride forever, dude, and then Kate gets up there and she’s talking to her for like no time at all and then he/’s like chop, chop — no!”

“I know he wasn’t doing it to be disrespectful, I don’t think so,” she added. “But you can kind of sense Kate’s tension as they were walking off, or at least I could.”

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Tina Turner’s son Ike Jr. was arrested and jailed weeks before her death

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It’s safe to say that late Tina Turner was the greatest diva that have ever walked this Earth. Her powerful vocals placed her on the pedestal where she remained up until her death and even beyond.

Turner spent the last years of her life in Switzerland where she lived with her husband Erwin Bach who donated her a kidney.

Her first husband, musician Ike Turner was an abusive man. However, Turner didn’t speak of the abuse she suffered until later in life. Ike passed away in 2007 at the age of 76 following overdose on cocaine.

As a couple, they achieved great success and were even inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1991. Phil Spector accepted the award on their behalf. But their private life was a different story.

Sadly, one of Turner’s children, Ike Turner Jr. followed into the footsteps of his father and turned to substances. Over the years, just like his dad, he had been involved in a number of incidents, including breaking the law and having trouble with law enforcement.

Tina Turner passed away on May 24, 2023, and it has now been revealed that her son Turner Jr. was arrested just 18 days prior to his mother’s passing for substance possession and tempering with evidence.

Turner Jr. was stopped at 12:09 a.m. while operating a 2013 Ford Fusion for what is known as an equipment failure, which is used when a car’s headlight or taillight is not functioning, according to police files.

He was in possession of less than a gram of methamphetamine and 1.7 grams of crack cocaine which he tried to consume at the spot after being apprehended in order to hide them from being discovered.

As reported by the Alvin Police Department, Turner Jr. “tried to eat the drugs before the officers could seize them from him.”

Jessica Salinas-Esquivel, who was a passenger in the car also facing charges for drug possession.

Reports are that Turner Jr. has been held at Brazoria County Jail for the past month and has not posted his bail, which has been set to the tune of $70,000.

Rumor has it that the relationship between Tina Turner and her children was strained, especially when she left the States for Switzerland.

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John Lennon’s son Julian stuns the world by singing father’s ‘Imagine’ for ‘the first time ever’ 

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Julian Lennon, the son of one of the greatest musicians and vocalists who have ever walked this Earth, John Lennon, had always said that he would never sing his father’s iconic song Imagine unless the world was coming to an end. However, the current situation with the war which has been going on in Ukraine since the end of February in which a huge number of people lost their lives and homes, Julian sang the piece of music whose lyrics are so profound they touch the heart to the core.

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Julian performed Imagine as part of Global Citizen’s Stand Up for Ukraine fundraiser and wrote that the unimaginable tragedy taking place in Ukraine prompted him to “respond in the most significant way [he] could.”

“The song reflects the light at the end of the tunnel, that we are all hoping for…” he wrote. “As a result of the ongoing murderous violence, millions of innocent families, have been forced to leave the comfort of their homes, to seek asylum elsewhere.”

The fundraiser Julian was part of helped raise around $10 billion, money which will be used to support Ukrainian refugees, as per Deadline. The number of people who fled the country is believed to be around 4.5 million so far.

Julian asked from the world to help the refugees and every other person who is dreaming of a better life.

“I’m calling on world leaders and everyone who believes in the sentiment of IMAGINE, to stand up for refugees everywhere! Please advocate and donate from the heart.”

His rendition, which he did together with guitarist Nuno Bettencourt, is as simple as it was beautifully touching. The most important of all is the message his performance helps spread.

We all hope and pray for peace everywhere in the world.

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From zero to five: Childless and struggling couple welcomes triplets and twins – in less than a year

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Many times when we feel hopeless, God finds a way to remind us that not everything is lost.

For a Tulsa, Oklahoma couple, Sarah and Andy Justice, it was all about having children. It’s not that they weren’t enough for one another, but being parents was one of their biggest dreams. Sadly, they tried to conceive and failed many times, until they decided to adopt.

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The adoption agency connected the couple to a mother-to-be who couldn’t raise a child and wanted to give it to adoption once it was born. Sarah and Andy were by her side throughout the pregnancy and even accompanied her to the doctor’s appointments.

One day, during a regular check-up, they learned something which left them in complete shock. The mother wasn’t carrying a single baby, but three. Almost overnight, the Justices were about to become parents of three.

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However, there was a lot more coming for this family.

When Joel, Hannah, and Elizabeth were born, Sarah and Andy were over the moon. The triplets were born prematurely and needed to spend some time at the NICU, but they thrived and were soon brought home.

Mere weeks following the adoption, the couple learned Sarah was pregnant. She was carrying twins. So, from being unable to conceive, they were now welcoming two more babies into their lives.

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About 8 months later, twins Abigail and Andrew were born, leading to a very, very full house.

Well, the journey towards parenthood was far from over. A year later, Sarah fell pregnant again, this time with a single child, making her and her husband a mom and a dad of six.

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In 2014, the family was invited to share their story on Today Show. Speaking of the days their children were still babies, Andy shared that they used around 300 diapers in a single week.

”As soon as you get one diaper changed, it’s time to start all over again.” But despite the hardship, they regret nothing. “We just love having these children,” Sarah said.

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Aren’t they a beautiful family?

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