With six children under 8, Catholic parents say life is busy, blessed

Published: 2006-06-05

INDIANAPOLIS (CNS) -- Constant motion. That's how Holy Name School first-grade teacher Ellen Taylor describes her life in the classroom with 12 students and at home with a 7-year-old son, a 4-year-old son and 2-year-old quadruplets. When Taylor and her husband, Rick, celebrate Father's Day with their children June 18 at their south-side Indianapolis home, that Sunday promises to be as busy as every other day of the year. The Taylors said they never dreamed that God would bless them with six children in eight years of marriage, but now they can't imagine life without their three sons and three daughters. They believe that their naturally conceived quadruplets -- Benjamin, Hannah, Allison and Abigail -- are the result of many prayer requests for a daughter. Their oldest son, Zachary, is a second-grade student at Holy Name School in Beech Grove, and Jacob attends pre-kindergarten there so they go to school with their mother every weekday.

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