There are quite a few moms that have 6, 7 and 8 children. They hardly ever check in here as they are all on their own board now.
I have 4 they are 17(girl), 14(boy), 7(boy) and my youngest, a girl, just turned 3 on Monday, plus I have an angel boy that would be 10 this August.
Where in Illinois are you from? I grew up in Chicago, have family all over IL and just last year was living near St. Louis for 6 months. We're military so we haven't really lived in IL for almost 19 yrs., except for the 6 months that my kids and I stayed with my mother while we were in between moving from overseas to Maine.
~Randi