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Need help keeping your household organized? Allow the Doughertys, a family of 14, to connection immoderate advice.
Alicia Dougherty—who shares 12 kids, lovingly referred to arsenic the "Dougherty Dozen," with her husband Josh Dougherty—recently gave fans a circuit of the family's store connected TikTok and explained however they support everything truthful tidy.
"One contented we person arsenic a ample household is simply a deficiency of storage," she said successful the Oct. 12 video. "So we decided to utilize the store with other shelves for food, 4 other fridge freezers, a support for bottled water, a support for sodas, a hang-up strategy for bikes and country for each their Power Wheels."
But that's not all. "We precocious got 12 lockers truthful that each kid has their ain abstraction to support their coats, jackets, backpacks and each of their shoes," the contented creator continued. "And that's however we assistance support our location organized with 12 kids."
And fans of the video—which has already racked up much than 836,000 views—were blown away. "The lockers are specified a large idea," 1 commenter wrote. Added another, "The enactment is impressive."
Alicia's store enactment is conscionable the latest look into her beingness with a large family. She uses the Dougherty Dozen's TikTok, which has 5.1 cardinal followers, to share everything from market trips and household meals to back-to-school hauls and tours of their 15-seater van. And for those wondering however the Dougherty Dozen came to be, Alicia has shared their story, too.
As Alicia noted in an August YouTube video, she and Josh experienced fertility struggles for 9 years and decided to follow from foster care. They adopted Alex, present 16, erstwhile helium was 5 years aged successful 2011. Less than a week later, the vlogger continued, Alicia learned she was large with Zoey, 10. The pursuing year, she added, she and Josh adopted James, 15, from foster attraction and they recovered retired she was large with Dash, 8, 2 weeks later.
Their household continued to grow. As Alicia recounted successful an August Instagram post, erstwhile Dash was 1-year-old, she and Josh were asked to instrumentality foster attraction placement of present 7-year-old twins Jason and Jordan, whom they aboriginal adopted. She also gave commencement to Bodhi, 6, successful 2016 and Harlee, 4, successful 2018. When Harlee was a baby, Alicia and Josh learned astir a sibling radical successful a residential attraction installation successful request of a household and adopted Patrick, 14, and Bree, 11. And this past spring, Alicia added, the mates took kinship placement of Dayshawn, 12, and Nevaeh, 14.
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"We pridefulness ourselves connected being genuine and authentic and REAL," Alicia wrote in her post. "Life is Messy. And we're each conscionable Trying Our Best."
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