:02:00
What?
:02:04
Well, we've been married,
what, five years?
:02:08
- Twenty-three.
- [ Groans ] Twenty-three. Sorry.
:02:11
And I think we could use
a little change around here...
:02:14
like-like this
lumpy old mattress.
:02:16
- Maybe we should just,
you know, get rid of it.
- [ Giggling ]
:02:19
Don't be ridiculous, honey. You know you
can just pound the lumps out of a mattress.
:02:22
What-What do you mean? You can just
pound the lumps out of a mattress?
:02:26
Yeah,just randomly
start swatting away.
:02:28
- And it goes flat?
- Yes, yes.
:02:30
Just start-- You just randomly
start swatting--
:02:36
[ Shouting, Laughing ]
:02:40
Careful.
:02:45
- I got a dog on me!
- [ Woman Narrating ] Twelve's
an insane number ofkids...
:02:48
but having a small family
was never an option for us.
:02:51
See, Tom loved growing up
with seven brothers and sisters.
:02:56
And after my sister died,
I spent most of my time...
:02:58
wishing I had
seven brothers and sisters.
:03:02
Tom and I met at
Illinois Polytechnic University.
:03:05
He was a senior dreaming ofbecoming
the head football coach there.
:03:09
I was a freshman dreaming
ofbecoming a sports reporter.
:03:12
He wanted eight kids,
I wanted eight kids. Bam.
:03:15
An hour after I met him,
I knew he was the one.
:03:19
Wejust had family
at the wedding.
:03:21
Oh, and Shake Maguire,
Tom's best man.
:03:23
What a hot dog.
:03:26
Ayear later,
we had our first-- Nora.
:03:29
I loved taking her
to work with me.
:03:32
After Charlie and Lorraine were born, we
realized our dream ofliving in the city...
:03:35
- and having eight kids and
two careers wasn't gonna work.
- [ Baby Crying ]
:03:39
As much as we wanted our big careers,
we wanted our big family more.
:03:42
So Tom settled for a Division III
coaching job at Lincoln...
:03:46
I quit writing for the Tribune,
and we moved to the country.
:03:50
Tom and I got busy
when we moved to Midland.
:03:52
We had Henry, Sarah,Jake and Mark
in consecutive years.
:03:56
Then we went for magic number eight,
and instead...
:03:58
we got the first set
of fraternal twins--Jessica and Kim.