:03:02
Tom and I met at
Illinois Polytechnic University.
:03:05
He was a senior dreaming ofbecoming
the head football coach there.
:03:09
I was a freshman dreaming
ofbecoming a sports reporter.
:03:12
He wanted eight kids,
I wanted eight kids. Bam.
:03:15
An hour after I met him,
I knew he was the one.
:03:19
Wejust had family
at the wedding.
:03:21
Oh, and Shake Maguire,
Tom's best man.
:03:23
What a hot dog.
:03:26
Ayear later,
we had our first-- Nora.
:03:29
I loved taking her
to work with me.
:03:32
After Charlie and Lorraine were born, we
realized our dream ofliving in the city...
:03:35
- and having eight kids and
two careers wasn't gonna work.
- [ Baby Crying ]
:03:39
As much as we wanted our big careers,
we wanted our big family more.
:03:42
So Tom settled for a Division III
coaching job at Lincoln...
:03:46
I quit writing for the Tribune,
and we moved to the country.
:03:50
Tom and I got busy
when we moved to Midland.
:03:52
We had Henry, Sarah,Jake and Mark
in consecutive years.
:03:56
Then we went for magic number eight,
and instead...
:03:58
we got the first set
of fraternal twins--Jessica and Kim.
:04:02
- Nine kids.
- Come on, you guys. Come on.
:04:05
Wave! Hi!
:04:07
[ Cheering ]
:04:09
With each child, Tom and I got further
from our big career dreams.
:04:12
But we didn't think about that.
:04:14
- [ Whistle Blowing ]
- [ Yelling ] Yeah!
:04:19
Oh. Sorry, Coach.
:04:25
We had our hands full with nine.
We were happy, and we were done.
:04:30
Then we went to a party celebrating
Shake Maguire's appointment...
:04:33
to athletic director
at our alma mater.
:04:35
And, well, too many beers and nine
months later, we had Mike.
:04:38
After that,
Tom got a vasectomy.
:04:41
But he didn't hear the doctor say
that it would be a few weeks...
:04:44
before the procedure
became effective.
:04:46
In '98, Nigel and Kyle got us
to that crazy number 1 2.
:04:51
But by then, Tom and I
were experts at managing chaos.
:04:57
- [ Karate Yells ]
- Let's move, gang.
Come on, come on, come on!