Jill Duggar from 19 Kids and Counting have a lot of happy memories from her childhood, and it's no wonder - with 18 siblings to choose from, Jill is never short of playmates!
"I am the fourth born child in my family. I was born just 16 months after my parents had their first set of twins, Jana and John," she shared in the Dillard Family Blog.
Because of their close age, sometimes people would guess that she, John, and Jana are actually triplets, or that she and Jana were twins.
"As you can imagine, we had fun with that!" said Jill.
She and her siblings love to play pretend - particularly "mom and dad" or "hospital," where Jill would pretend to be a nurse and give "medicine" to her "patients." Of course, the medicine of choice was Koolaide while her siblings or friends agreed to be the patients.
Sometimes they even pretended to have an "injured" leg and Jill would pull a bandage out of her little Noah's ark apron and gingerly wrap it around her sibling's leg.
"There was always something to do or someone to play with around my house. Because we were home educated, mom had to make sure that we completed our allotted assignments before we were able to be done for the day," she said.
When she was five years old, Jill took up piano lessons, then took up violin lessons when she was 11. She and her sisters all love music so when a friend offered to teach them how to play the harp, they all jumped on the opportunity.
"Even though practice wasn't always my favourite thing to do as a kid, I'm so glad my parents encouraged me to stick with it, because now I can just play for relaxation and enjoyment," she shared.
Aside from music, Jill and her siblings also got involved in politics because of their parents. Her father Jim Bob would support political candidates and Jill remembers knocking door to door with her dad. Of course, the Duggar siblings' favourite part of helping out their father was getting free ice cream, sandwiches and popcorn.
"When he was serving in the Arkansas State House of Representatives, we all moved to the capitol city and we kids would take turns going with him to work. We learned a lot just going to committee meetings and watching bills be discussed and voted on," she said.
