11 children, that is nice and noisy, i grow up on size of 6 in my family...

Nothing beats home food cook, yeah restaurants are still very very expensive even now days, the feel on fullness having a meal with family in your own home, is really awesome and incomparable to any wine and dine outside...

for the septic tank part i feel for you, sorry to hear that... in our country, this is still good, but we can just take it as that have already created a good antibody to fight for your recovery faster this days.. :)

Nice post and cant wait for your next story continuation. :)