One thing was clear to Jeni when she first met her husband Ray: she had no desire to have children.<\/p>\n
Ray desired a minimum of four children. That struck me as absurd. For example, who has that many kids? Jeni informed Mamamia.<\/p>\n
They are now the delighted parents of sixteen children, more than thirty years later.<\/p>\n
Weekly grocery expenditures of $600<\/p>\n
You may have heard of them if you\u2019re from Australia, but when I first started reading about the Bonell Family, it was rather shocking to me.<\/p>\n
Raising 16 children in Australia, the Bonell family\u2019s life is anything but typical. Jeni and Ray Bonell have mastered the skill of juggling everything, from taking care of their huge brood to managing the turmoil of everyday life, and they do it with a healthy dose of humor.<\/p>\n
Jesse, 35, Brooke, 34, Claire, 31, Natalie, 30, Karl, 28, Samuel, 26, Cameron, 25, Sabrina, 24, Tim, 22, Brandon, 20, Eve, 19, Nate, 17, Rachel, 16, Eric, 15, Damian, 14, and Katelyn, 10 are the nine boys and seven girls that make up the Bonell family from Toowoomba, Queensland.<\/p>\n
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