Raising even one or two children can be a daunting endeavor for parents, which perhaps explains the mystification of many Americans that Michelle and Jim Bob Duggar manage to rear a brood of 19 kids. NBC's Today is pulling back the curtain a bit on the already exposed stars of TLC's 19 Kids and Counting, and according to the Arkansas couple, their parenting feat is less a miracle than it is a product of good planning and teamwork. Here, a numerical look at the Duggars' "super-sized" household:
21
Members of the nuclear family, including 19 kids (age 2 to 24)
18
Children who still live at home
9
Girls who share one bedroom
9
Boys who share another bedroom
9
Bathrooms in the house
1
Room used as a "post office" to sort the family mail
1
Super-sized family closet
4
Years it took for the Duggars to build their own house
3 to 6
Hours of daily homeschooling for each kid
8
Cars (2), SUVs (5), and vans (1) the family owns, all purchased used
45
Length, in feet, of the family bus
35
Loads of laundry the family does each week
$3,000
The family's average monthly grocery bill
48
Boxes of cereal the family eats each month
36
Eggs the Duggars go through in a typical day. (That's more than 1,000 per month.)
5
Pounds of turkey bacon consumed in a typical day
3
Loaves of bread consumed in a typical day
2
Watermelons consumed in a typical day
3
Pounds of green beans consumed in a typical day
2
Pans of brownies consumed in a typical day
1
Gallon of vanilla ice cream consumed in a typical day
17
Michelle's age when she married Jim Bob
19
Jim Bob's age when he married Michelle
Sources: Babble, Examiner, Huffington Post, NBC Today
