… two dogs and you have the loud family I dreamed of. Turns out it’s not what you see in the movies. In (my) real life, a big family means constant noise, mountains of dirty dishes and dirty socks, short-order cooking, kids bickering, dogs barking and there’s never enough bread or cheese or something else. It’s chaos. My hat is off to those moms who manage it all with a smile. But it’s not me.