All Hands on Deck

Something simple occurred to me the other day. We have 20 hands in our family - sixteen just among our children. If I do my job well, those sixteen hands will be a help to us and others for many years. Even the youngest is capable of doing a lot with her hands (she can make a mess in no time). Sixteen. That's also the minimum number of kid shoes we have around the house at any given time. Thirty-two is probably more like it.