Great advice from all the ladies. However, I`m going to play devil`s advocate and look at this from another perspective. That's a LOT of kids and your own will surely be the most challenging with this new adjustment. That's called diving right in. Personally I couldn't handle it. I'd be worried that you're staying home to be with yours and you're going to wear yourself thin and not be able to give them what they need.

Hopefully you'll find a way to make it work. I would be completely exhausted. Where I live we're not allowed more than 2 under 18 months and I truly believe there's a reason for that. Our max is also 6 kids, including our own...until our own turn 9. Unless schedules are worked out so that you never have more than 6 at a time in the house. I cherish this rule! It has saved my sanity. I now have 4 since my 2 are in school, but under 9 and I feel like a whole new person! I'm no longer exhausted when I close the door to my last dck in the evening....I still have something left to offer my family.

If you don't feel that you can do, then you're not doing any of those parents any favours at all by saying that you'll do something that may be too demanding. Don't forget about yourself because if you're not well, noone is well!

I don't mean to be discouraging. If you can do, more power to ya! Just wanted to look at the other side of the coin.