Calculations

When you have a lot of kids, you start to do calculations.  I was never great at math.  I never really cared how fast the train was going, uphill, with a 500 pound load, in the wind, blah blah blah.  But one day, I wondered out loud "I wonder how many diapers I've changed in my life?"

All of my kids were potty trained after they were two years old.  Probably more like two and half, maybe three.  But for the sake of looking at the best case scenario, we will say two.  A kid averages about eight changes per day when newborn, and then up to maybe four when they are a toddler.  We'll average five per day to make it easy.  Remember?  I'm not good with math.  365 Days x 2 Years = 730 Days.  730 Days x 5 Diapers Per Day = 3650.  Now, this is where it gets good.  3650 x 7 Kids = 25,550!  OVER TWENTY FIVE THOUSAND DIAPERS!  I"m just calculating how many I've changed... what about the cost!  Aaaah.

And when the kitchen required a faucet repair, I thought that was weird.  Right?  I'ts not like we're swinging from a rope from the kitchen faucet!  And then my cute little guy ran in with a water balloon and I told him he would have to fill it up in the bathroom because the plumber was fixing the faucet.  Then the light bulb came on... and several calculations later... we came up with every time I go grocery shopping in the summer, I had bought a 100 pack of water balloons for the kids.  I shop once a week.  15 weeks of summer and that's 1500 water balloons!  1500 times a tiny little person... too short for the faucet... pulled him/herself up... by the faucet... hanging on... again by the faucet... while filling it up in a span of 3 months.

Calculations are costly.

This is a sponsored post for Rotorooter, however, all the points and views are my own.