What a treat this is to watch! Thank you both for sharing your story and your wisdom. It’s a God sent in a world where so many of us don’t have married couples to look up to and learn from. God bless you and your family! 💗
Having an understanding that the person you married isn't the same person you'll be married to in 20 years is important. People change, it's just key to grow together instead of using it as an excuse to divorce!
This is so beautiful! I've only seen a minute so far and it's already so heartwarming 💗 I've been married less than a year so I'm so glad I can learn from your experience ☺
This is so amazing, you all have so much wisdom to share! I wish you had a marriage and family podcast! There is so littie encouragement out there on young marriage and large families for Christians. Thank you for doing this video. Happy Thanksgiving to you and your lovely family!💖
What a wonderful love story. It's not always perfect but I can tell you are also best friends and a delightful married couple. I recently lost my husband and best friend. He was only 51. Cherish every day.
Thanks for sharing! This was so good! I loved the part filling their toolboxes or tool bag. I have heard it before, but it never gets old. You both touched on a lot of insightful points and things I know but not always easy to accomplish. My husband & I are believers and run a Christian home and we have had our challenges and overcome and in a very great spot but there is always something to work on or to revisit for sure. We are not perfect parents and the way things go are not what I had envisioned and making small changes to make it better is a challenge but worth it.
Thanks for sharing your story! I'm 43 years old as well and had my first child this year. I always wanted to get married young and have many kids, but God had other plans for me. I met my husband when I was about to turn 42 and I did not expect to meet the right man any more. We married soon and had immediately had our son.
@@monikarauch301 congratulations on your baby and your! That is so awesome that you were able to find your mate and have a child. What a wonderful blessing.
Nancy, you are so encouraging and as someone who is a homebirth mom and married young I hear my story in yours. I love hearing your husband share and hearing your life and love story. ❤️
Loved seeing Nancy’s Vlogs. When I heard they had 17, was interested. My second cousin from a family of 20. Many stories. Very nice to hear this with your husband too.
You Both are such loving and caring! I'm So Blessed listening to how you overcame struggles in your marriage! I also Greatly appreciate how you are sowing into your married children's loves. God Bless You Both and your Family! Please continue to do these talks in the future ❤🤗🙏
I absolutely loved this! Please do a Part 2. I’d love to know a more in depth of your family systems and how exactly do you train your children. I feel like I’m failing in that department and could use all of the help. Also with budgeting, managing your home etc. just all of it lol 😂 thank you! God bless!!! ❤
I agree...I'd love to hear more about how you train and manage your kids!! I only have 2 with 1 on the way and can feel overwhelmed with just them... so I feel I can learn a lot from you!
Hi guys I'm pretty new to your channel but I love your content its very poignant to where I am in regard to my marriage to my husband Alex. I love your comment ' you have to love your spouse more than you love being right' we have been together 27yrs as well and I can tell you we are both guilty of this at times. So wow for calling it. Absolutely true also seeking advice from people who are like minded Christians. We both are old school and believe you don't jump ship at the first sign of tough times also. Thankyou ❤❤❤
Thank you for these videos! They’ve changed my life. Can you make a video on how you manage sleep/naps with so many kids? Do you sleep train? Co-sleep?
Thank you for sharing. My husband and I love having a large family. We also have had vision meetings but we called them planning sessions. Christ, His Word, and respect have been the foundations of our 27 yr marriage as well. I like how you emplimented the father encouraging talents and "filling the tool bag." Lord bless you!
I'd love to have an idea of what your life skills progression looks like as far as milestones and age goals you have for your children. If you had a chart or template to use as a guide for other families, that would be helpful to see. Thanks for sharing!
Could you please do a video for us on all your home systems for your family? That would be very helpful! I have implemented your laundry solution with my kids and that’s going great! What else can we do better?? 😃
What a blessed story what a blessing u 2 are. Me & my husband Lindsay just celebrated 38 wonderful years of marriage we love each other so much we are faithful to each other
Since you aren't LDS, do you identify as members of some other community, or just generally as Christians? From what community did your children find their spouses? Did they use online dating websites to find good and serious people? It would be an interesting episode for you to explain how your children met their spouses, and whether or not you guided and agreed with their choice of spouse!
I loved watching your video! I feel like I should have been taking notes 📝 lol. You two have a wonderful marriage and I really enjoyed your story and tips.
I loved this so much. It's so inspiring seeing people who are going on a path in life, which I hope to go on some day with motherhood and marrige, thank you for this video:)
I never used prenatal and didn’t have an issue. I just ate really well. People didn’t have prenatal back in the day and they were fine. Some prenatal are too high in A and can cause birth defects. Listen to them when they say “don’t vxxx” LISTEN well to this!!! All sweet and great advice-be nice to each other. Oh if I could turn back the time and redo things….
I 100% agree on just eating healthy however, if you have a lot of kids very close together sometimes you need a little extra to replenish everything that is taken out from each pregnancy but I do agree and we do eat very healthy
Yes, very true, love is an action. Why our Father and Creator told us exactly how to love Him. "If you love Me keep My commandments." His Torah His Son listened and obeyed His Father's commandments perfectly.
@@katieb9312 I use the ritual brand prenatal multivitamin, and I use the postnatal vitamin after I have a baby. I will put a link in the description for the vitamin.
Thinking of labor pains as productive, imagining the contractions like a wave of an ocean, and focusing on breathing through all the pain always helped me. Only 4 babies, labors between 6-10hrs long, but the "hard" distracting labors usually 2-4hrs, and those hours are where I imagine the ocean 🌊
Thanks so much…please can you go through your weekly calendar as it relates to intentional marriage and intentional parenting…eg fail hy meeting, or walking with the kids.
What did he study? What jobs or businesses did he have? What kind of company does he run now? Is there anything he would do differently as a provider looking back?
Wow lovely.....my frind I am new here but confused because at same age also we are afghans those who has big family and we gatmarried but have 5 kids how you did that is incredible story for me , first time I heard in UK any way my god keep you happy forever.
You make it sound easier than it is. You were paying off your first apartment but you had 4 kids. Did you take them to any activity? With only one income you should have make at least 100k. Not many people could make six figures 27 years ago. And then did you travel? Did you go to see kids shows? Did you go to theaters? Did you eat out?
Marriage is not for everybody but thank you for sharing your video. It takes 2 normal and mentally healthy people to keep a marriage going. And Marriage is NEVER going to be a substitute for treatment as some people like to believe until of course reality hits. Then they become believers.
@@RealMomRealSolutions All of my grandparents and great-grandlarents were married by 16 and they remained happily married for life, about 60 years. One of my great-grandmas had 18 children. 💖
I’m so curious about the placenta…do you feel like you are being a cannibal??? Doesn’t it have yours and your baby’s DNA??? I want to do it, but not sure I can do that.
I understand what you’re saying but the placentas purpose is to provide nutrients and create life. The benefits that you receive from consuming it cannot be duplicated any other way. I freeze it in little squares and then blend it up in a strawberry shake. (Strawberry so that it is pink either way) you can’t even taste it.
Wow you both were willing to grow and actually try in your marriage.. Does that even exist anymore? I feel like the men just go on to the next girlfriend or wife. I think you two are okay in my book.👍☮️. But doesn’t having all those kids destroy your body? That scares the heck out of me. I don’t know how you do it.
I have yet to meet a large family that is a happy one in the long run. I grew up with several families of around ten and no child of those families has more than three themselves because they don't want to recreate their childhoods.
@@monicadabney8471 No one on one time with parents. Parents seemed overwhelmed and never had any time for one on one when there was an immediate need. Older children having to raise the younger children. As adults not really knowing siblings that were just babies when you were grown but feeling like you should but they are strangers to you.
This is just so weird for me to read because both my husband and I come from large families and we know a lot of people from big families. I don't know any of them that didn't love coming from a large family. I have said so many times my siblings are one of the greatest gifts my parents ever gave me. I love them all so much. I know so many people from large families that want a large family because they loved their childhood.
@@hannahsteigauf4518 I will say they love their siblings, they just don't know them and felt their childhoods were lacking connections with some of the them. As adults they hardly know the ones that are 15 years apart in age and spread all over the country.
16 Years Old!? Was it Legal in the State You stayed in for a Female to Marry at 16 Years Old? How does that goes in the State You were in? Parents Permission for instance? Freeman from Mt. Clemens, Michigan.
I was an older kid who had to watch her younger siblings, administer asthma meds, change diapers etc. Some kids may actually like to do that. But it’s not fair to use your older kids as your au pairs. And it’s not fair to force the obligation on them because they’re in a big family. They didn’t ask for it. It was your decision to have 17 kids. Yes, it’s tougher to raise them without the assistance of your older children. But their childhood is over and you’re just roping them into a lifetime of responsibility. Childhood is fleeting. Take care of the diapers yourself.
What a treat this is to watch! Thank you both for sharing your story and your wisdom. It’s a God sent in a world where so many of us don’t have married couples to look up to and learn from. God bless you and your family! 💗
Having an understanding that the person you married isn't the same person you'll be married to in 20 years is important. People change, it's just key to grow together instead of using it as an excuse to divorce!
Isn't that the truth!! We had to learn a LOT along the way! Seems we had to grow up together. Young people need to be taught this.
This is so beautiful! I've only seen a minute so far and it's already so heartwarming 💗 I've been married less than a year so I'm so glad I can learn from your experience ☺
Thank you so much!!
This is so amazing, you all have so much wisdom to share! I wish you had a marriage and family podcast! There is so littie encouragement out there on young marriage and large families for Christians. Thank you for doing this video. Happy Thanksgiving to you and your lovely family!💖
What a wonderful love story. It's not always perfect but I can tell you are also best friends and a delightful married couple. I recently lost my husband and best friend. He was only 51. Cherish every day.
I am very sorry for your loss ❤
So wonderful to hear you talk about your marriage with so much respect for each other ❤
Nancy, you make it all look so fun and enjoyable. What a blessing to your children you are!
Thanks for sharing! This was so good! I loved the part filling their toolboxes or tool bag. I have heard it before, but it never gets old. You both touched on a lot of insightful points and things I know but not always easy to accomplish. My husband & I are believers and run a Christian home and we have had our challenges and overcome and in a very great spot but there is always something to work on or to revisit for sure. We are not perfect parents and the way things go are not what I had envisioned and making small changes to make it better is a challenge but worth it.
Thank you and I agree! It's a constant work in progress.
On the pregnancy/birth note: would you ever do a video or series on your pregnancies and births? I would love to hear all that!
Thanks for sharing your story! I'm 43 years old as well and had my first child this year. I always wanted to get married young and have many kids, but God had other plans for me. I met my husband when I was about to turn 42 and I did not expect to meet the right man any more. We married soon and had immediately had our son.
@@monikarauch301 congratulations on your baby and your! That is so awesome that you were able to find your mate and have a child. What a wonderful blessing.
Nancy, you are so encouraging and as someone who is a homebirth mom and married young I hear my story in yours. I love hearing your husband share and hearing your life and love story. ❤️
Wow my first day and I didn’t hesitate to subscribe this is beautiful what amazing family
Thank you so much! I appreciate your support.
Thank you very much for taking the time to share this, appreciated💫
Happy Anniversary ❤❤ What a wonderful video to watch and learn from! Thank you for sharing!
Loved seeing Nancy’s Vlogs. When I heard they had 17, was interested. My second cousin from a family of 20. Many stories. Very nice to hear this with your husband too.
You Both are such loving and caring! I'm So Blessed listening to how you overcame struggles in your marriage! I also Greatly appreciate how you are sowing into your married children's loves. God Bless You Both and your Family! Please continue to do these talks in the future ❤🤗🙏
We appreciate your kind words, Thank you!
❤ thank you both so much for sharing your wisdom. Praise God. May he continue to lead your family in his ways and keep you always. Amen.
I absolutely loved this! Please do a Part 2. I’d love to know a more in depth of your family systems and how exactly do you train your children. I feel like I’m failing in that department and could use all of the help. Also with budgeting, managing your home etc. just all of it lol 😂 thank you! God bless!!! ❤
I agree...I'd love to hear more about how you train and manage your kids!! I only have 2 with 1 on the way and can feel overwhelmed with just them... so I feel I can learn a lot from you!
Hi guys
I'm pretty new to your channel but I love your content its very poignant to where I am in regard to my marriage to my husband Alex. I love your comment ' you have to love your spouse more than you love being right' we have been together 27yrs as well and I can tell you we are both guilty of this at times. So wow for calling it. Absolutely true also seeking advice from people who are like minded Christians. We both are old school and believe you don't jump ship at the first sign of tough times also. Thankyou ❤❤❤
LOOOOVE THIS….please can you do more about the intentional parenting…
You are not LDS? Yay
Your husband is very kind and amazing!!!! What a blessing he fought for you like that in the beginning!!
Lol, I was going to leave a similar comment. Christians and not LDS. Yay!!!
Thank you!!
Thank you for these videos! They’ve changed my life.
Can you make a video on how you manage sleep/naps with so many kids? Do you sleep train? Co-sleep?
Great suggestion!l
Thank you for sharing. My husband and I love having a large family. We also have had vision meetings but we called them planning sessions. Christ, His Word, and respect have been the foundations of our 27 yr marriage as well. I like how you emplimented the father encouraging talents and "filling the tool bag." Lord bless you!
Absolutely enjoyed every second of this! I watched in short segments in between studies and life in general. Thank you so much for sharing!!
@@rosesmith000 thank you so much. I know the video was a bit long. I almost broke it up into parts and I maybe should have.
I'd love to have an idea of what your life skills progression looks like as far as milestones and age goals you have for your children. If you had a chart or template to use as a guide for other families, that would be helpful to see. Thanks for sharing!
You guys have an amazing relationship and such a beautiful family!!
Congratulations! This is so helpful for husbands and wives!
I’m so glad you found it helpful! Thank you!
Could you please do a video for us on all your home systems for your family? That would be very helpful! I have implemented your laundry solution with my kids and that’s going great! What else can we do better?? 😃
What a blessed story what a blessing u 2 are. Me & my husband Lindsay just celebrated 38 wonderful years of marriage we love each other so much we are faithful to each other
Since you aren't LDS, do you identify as members of some other community, or just generally as Christians? From what community did your children find their spouses? Did they use online dating websites to find good and serious people? It would be an interesting episode for you to explain how your children met their spouses, and whether or not you guided and agreed with their choice of spouse!
This wonderful man loves Nancy and it is so obvious as he speaks about their years together.
I'm delighted! Love!❤❤❤
I loved watching your video! I feel like I should have been taking notes 📝 lol. You two have a wonderful marriage and I really enjoyed your story and tips.
You guys are gorgeous, and what a blessing to have all those children ❤
So encouraging 💕 love your content!
What a precious talk! I want to replay❤❤❤❤❤❤
Thank you. I’m so glad you enjoyed it
Finally a good Christian family and not these fake LDS “influencers”
I mean they are LDS but yes they’re a great example.
@@Psychiatricnerdhe said at 5:30 that they're not LDS
@@MamaD_and_Familywow I was sure they were LDS
@@Todd181 what does that stand for?
Congratulations!!! Thanks for sharing your story with the world such an amazing family
Thank you so much! We are blessed.
Thank you for this, great advice ❤
Some great marriage advice ❤
You are an amazing beautiful loving couple and the Lord has clearly Blessed you!!! Wow… I pray my children have marriages like yours ❤️
I LOVE this!! Please can you do more of these. Like if someone came to us with scenario X what are somethings we might advise
This was awesome on so many levels. So many things resonated and were reassuring. So much sound advice. ❤
I loved this so much. It's so inspiring seeing people who are going on a path in life, which I hope to go on some day with motherhood and marrige, thank you for this video:)
Beautiful story, pleasure to watch you two.
Thank you so much! We appreciate you watching!
The best video I've recently seen. Thank you for sharing. Best regards from Moscow from a mom of 5.
Thank you!
I never used prenatal and didn’t have an issue. I just ate really well. People didn’t have prenatal back in the day and they were fine. Some prenatal are too high in A and can cause birth defects. Listen to them when they say “don’t vxxx” LISTEN well to this!!! All sweet and great advice-be nice to each other. Oh if I could turn back the time and redo things….
I 100% agree on just eating healthy however, if you have a lot of kids very close together sometimes you need a little extra to replenish everything that is taken out from each pregnancy but I do agree and we do eat very healthy
The Bradley method really helped. Because it helps releave fear which does let your muscles relax and reduce pain.
I will have to look into that. Thank you!
Yes, very true, love is an action. Why our Father and Creator told us exactly how to love Him.
"If you love Me keep My commandments." His Torah
His Son listened and obeyed His Father's commandments perfectly.
Such a beautiful loving family
Thank you for sharing! Y'all are inspiring
What prenatal vitamins do you recommend?
@@katieb9312 I use the ritual brand prenatal multivitamin, and I use the postnatal vitamin after I have a baby. I will put a link in the description for the vitamin.
Can you please share your "lifetime progression" plan for your kids?
I would love to see it!
Thinking of labor pains as productive, imagining the contractions like a wave of an ocean, and focusing on breathing through all the pain always helped me. Only 4 babies, labors between 6-10hrs long, but the "hard" distracting labors usually 2-4hrs, and those hours are where I imagine the ocean 🌊
Thanks so much…please can you go through your weekly calendar as it relates to intentional marriage and intentional parenting…eg fail hy meeting, or walking with the kids.
What did he study? What jobs or businesses did he have? What kind of company does he run now? Is there anything he would do differently as a provider looking back?
LOVE!!
Great video ❤
Wow lovely.....my frind I am new here but confused because at same age also we are afghans those who has big family and we gatmarried but have 5 kids how you did that is incredible story for me , first time I heard in UK any way my god keep you happy forever.
I would love to see your meal plans/ snacks/ etc. Id love that! Or where you get your meats.
@47:00 @Candace and @TuckerCarlson
Hi Nancy, I love your videos. You said you need a video editor? I would be happy to help ☺
Thank you
Did you knew how many kids you wanted or you felt on the process to continue I have a son and I want more kids but with my age maybe 2more
Your husband seems like a very kind man. And still in love with you. Congrats to you both❤
Nice meeting you. I look forward to seeing further vlogs. Very nice family.
You make it sound easier than it is. You were paying off your first apartment but you had 4 kids. Did you take them to any activity? With only one income you should have make at least 100k. Not many people could make six figures 27 years ago. And then did you travel? Did you go to see kids shows? Did you go to theaters? Did you eat out?
creatorlymedia, let them know Michelle sent you. Katie is so so amazing.
@@michellemartens6372 awesome thank you. I’ll look into them
32:37 vision meetings
You guys are a blessing
Marriage is not for everybody but thank you for sharing your video. It takes 2 normal and mentally healthy people to keep a marriage going. And Marriage is NEVER going to be a substitute for treatment as some people like to believe until of course reality hits. Then they become believers.
You both r very beautiful God bless u all
How are your kids able to go to school without being vaccinated?
Thankfully most states have exemptions.
Maybe check into religious exemptions that cover work and school, I know in my state they bypass shots for their situations.
@@josephanton6099 that is right, we are able to have exemptions
Yes!! 2 kids was WAYYY easier than 1
Beautiful relationship. Thank you for the video.
Please share your every child birth experience ❤❤❤❤ Great Couple. Nowadays couples are not responsible, Mobile generation!
Happy anniversary
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I was subscribed, but it said i wasn't 😢 resubscribed ❤️
Praise the Lord ❤❤❤
Nancy is a true help mate
Would you let your 16 year old get married?
If she was mature enough and found the right person then yes.
@@RealMomRealSolutions All of my grandparents and great-grandlarents were married by 16 and they remained happily married for life, about 60 years. One of my great-grandmas had 18 children. 💖
I got married at 16. And let my 17 year old get married. Because he was a Christian and they were ready
I’m so curious about the placenta…do you feel like you are being a cannibal??? Doesn’t it have yours and your baby’s DNA??? I want to do it, but not sure I can do that.
I understand what you’re saying but the placentas purpose is to provide nutrients and create life. The benefits that you receive from consuming it cannot be duplicated any other way. I freeze it in little squares and then blend it up in a strawberry shake. (Strawberry so that it is pink either way) you can’t even taste it.
Wow you both were willing to grow and actually try in your marriage.. Does that even exist anymore? I feel like the men just go on to the next girlfriend or wife. I think you two are okay in my book.👍☮️. But doesn’t having all those kids destroy your body? That scares the heck out of me. I don’t know how you do it.
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I have yet to meet a large family that is a happy one in the long run. I grew up with several families of around ten and no child of those families has more than three themselves because they don't want to recreate their childhoods.
Did any of them say what they were missing? What were the problems?
@@monicadabney8471 No one on one time with parents. Parents seemed overwhelmed and never had any time for one on one when there was an immediate need. Older children having to raise the younger children. As adults not really knowing siblings that were just babies when you were grown but feeling like you should but they are strangers to you.
This is just so weird for me to read because both my husband and I come from large families and we know a lot of people from big families. I don't know any of them that didn't love coming from a large family. I have said so many times my siblings are one of the greatest gifts my parents ever gave me. I love them all so much. I know so many people from large families that want a large family because they loved their childhood.
@@hannahsteigauf4518 I will say they love their siblings, they just don't know them and felt their childhoods were lacking connections with some of the them. As adults they hardly know the ones that are 15 years apart in age and spread all over the country.
I have 4 brothers and 4 sisters- and I currently have 8 children. I know lots of large families that are very loving and real.
16 Years Old!? Was it Legal in the State You stayed in for a Female to Marry at 16 Years Old? How does that goes in the State You were in? Parents Permission for instance? Freeman from Mt. Clemens, Michigan.
Probably parents permission
I was an older kid who had to watch her younger siblings, administer asthma meds, change diapers etc. Some kids may actually like to do that.
But it’s not fair to use your older kids as your au pairs. And it’s not fair to force the obligation on them because they’re in a big family.
They didn’t ask for it. It was your decision to have 17 kids.
Yes, it’s tougher to raise them without the assistance of your older children. But their childhood is over and you’re just roping them into a lifetime of responsibility. Childhood is fleeting. Take care of the diapers yourself.
As the older child I did too. I couldn't be more grateful to my parents and everything I learned.
Sorry yo hear about you and your pregnancy....hope yoj r huband able to provide family wigh needs.
It is scarry...God help you...
What are they doing for there family.?? Oh...