- You know how to eat fast. The first two kids who were done with dinner got second helpings. Everyone else had to settle for cereal.
- Buying everything — including shoes — from the thrift store
- Wearing hand-me-downs of hand-me-downs 10 years out of style
- Road trips in the family van where there were never enough seatbelts for humans
- All the kids sharing 1 bathroom — yeah, that makes perfect sense
- Mom and dad combining 2 or 3 or 4 names all into one when they called for you
- Having enough people to always form your own soccer or basketball or football or baseball team
- Always having someone to go on adventures with — and always having someone to watch your back
- Being asked all the time if you’re Mormon
- Being told your parents must have had a lot of sex, well before you even knew what that meant
- Babysitting 3 or 4 younger siblings at the same time by age 9
- Being late to everything because getting everyone out the door without something going wrong at the last minute was impossible
- Learning very early you can’t be the best at everything. One of your siblings is always better at something than you. Or multiple things.
- Being asked by everyone if you will be just like so and so older sibling and having to smile and nod through it
- Lifelong friends that you wouldn’t trade for anything in the world
