With 11 Kids, This Cincinnati Couple Has a Lot of Love in Their Lives

you up my name is christina sanders my name is christopher sanders it's time to get up buddy we've been married 14 years that's my chocolate drop that's my sweet thing [Music] and we have 11 children if you didn't live here you would not think that this was possible [Music] i would describe our house as organized chaos hey y'all come on let's go boys hey look can you get the bananas there's never a dull moment in the sanders home we are busy all day every day from the time we wake up to the time we go to bed we're doing something the kids would love to take long hot showers but there are so many of them that's just not a reality for us is there like the brother who takes the longest we definitely got a brother that takes the longest it's my brother katie yes sometimes i do get yelled at for taking long shots we are getting ready to do a chore list chores are very important in the sanders household we have a chore chart two children per drawer bathroom hayley and christopher there are so many of us something that's always getting dirty because we pretty much utilize every into the your house get that go [Music] me and chris always wanted a big family after having five biological children i knew that i wanted to have more children that's when we decided to become foster parents we got the call saying they had four boys and they were like we're on our way right now and i said okay i'll be here open arms don't track none of this mud in my house you listening after the children's first night here that's when i found out they had two sisters we knew right away that we wanted to foster them because it's important for the siblings to stay together i was just feeling a little nervous about how they would accept me not knowing if they had any interaction with a man of my color and size you know a big black guy so i was just like hoping that they would embrace me but love has no color love has no boundaries and so on april 27 2017 we adopted all six children and they officially became sanders children it's like having another baby [Laughter] six six [Music] the secret of raising happy children is i think happy parents everything is not so serious just relax you know you're gonna mess up sometimes it's okay i love you too it's not easy with a large family like this but in the end it's all worth it it's all worth it good night [Music] you

Channel: Great Big Story

Views: 8,933,862

Keywords: great big story, gbs, lag, documentary, docs, Biography & Profile, Delta, Family, Cincinnati, Ohio, Love, Lives, Biological Children, Fosterr Children, Science & Tech, Tech & Science, technology, tech, no boundaries, community, loving, loving family, family values

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Length: 3min 48sec (228 seconds)

Published: Wed Oct 02 2019