I hope that one day you will read this to your children so they see that despite all your perceived mistakes you did a bloody good job of parenting them.

I wonder how people in the past managed with six+ children?

Oh that's right. Life was so much more simple and predictable right then, rents were affordable, families supported each other, and pace of life was slower.

These days when your children are in their teens or in my case, married and away from home, you tend to wonder how we got sucked in with all the demands.