Journal Entery

Date: October 24, 2007

Entery Number: 20

Page/Quote reflecting on: Pgs. 116-117

"Even six was considered excessive, but then, everybody said, of course Dodo was a Catholic." Dodo Conway, a mother of six children with a seventh on the way, lived in Esther's neighbor hood and raised her children on "...Rice Krispies, peanut-butter-and-marshmallow sandwiches, vanilla ice cream and gallon upon gallon of Hoods milk." It's interesting how they make the innuendo that the reason why she has so many kids is because she is Catholic. It's funny though because most of the time people make that connection between Latter Day Saints, aka Mormons. A lot of Mormon families have at least five kids or more. There are a few with only a couple of kids but then there are families with nine kids others with twelve and sometimes as many as sixteen. One of my best friends is a member of a family with sixteen kids in it, all from the same marriage. So it is interesting to me how they make that connection between lots of kids and Catholics.