The Mother Left To Juggle SEVEN Children Alone (including Two-Year-Old QUINS) While Her US Army Husb

Roxanna and Michael Hoffman have seven children, including quintuplets

• The quintuplets, four girls and a boy, are all going through the 'terrible twos'

• Roxanna is raising the children on her own while Michael is on deployment

• To cope she drives a 15-seater van and has a stroller that fits five children

A mother-of-seven has revealed how she raises her enormous brood alone while her military husband is on deployment.

Roxanna Hoffman, 27, is caring for 10-year-old son Conner, two-year-old quintuplets, and a one-year-old son, Gideon, at home in Atlanta, Georgia while husband Michael, 28, travels the world on a year-long posting with the US Air Force. It is likely he will be sent on a mission to Syria before returning home to the family in early August.

Due to Michael's career, the family has moved three times in the last two years, and Roxanna is currently trying to juggle the needs of her young family.

Roxanna, who initially had to change between 50 and 60 diapers a day and resorted to painting the babies' toes with colour-coded polish to help tell them apart, documents the inventive ways she's found to cope as a harassed mother-of-seven in photographs of the family's hectic daily life.

Family: Roxanna and Michael Hoffman with their children, Conner, 10, left, baby Gideon, in his father's arms, and quintuplets (left-right) Elias, Briella, Felicity, Delilah and Aurora.

Inventive solution: Big brother Conner stands behind the quintuplets in a five-seater stroller.

Nap time: The quintuplets each stand in a different crib as they prepare to go down for a sleep.

Dinner time: A specially-designed table has enough space for six children in high chairs.

She takes all seven children on days out in the family's 15-seater van, and there is a room filled with cribs to keep the youngest out of trouble.

Roxanna said: 'The quintuplets are going through the terrible twos. So there's lots of transiting. My mum has moved by us so she helps with the kids, and my in-laws help when they can too.'

The full-time mother said her quintuplets - daughters Aurora, Briella, Delilah, Felicity, and son Elias - 'definitely have a special bond' and even developed their own language.

Play time: Father Michael pulls the quintuplets around the yard in linked-up trailers.

'My husband was turning pale and nearly passing out. I didn't feel prepared but had to make jokes to keep strong. All of our family was surprised and shocked.'

At just 17 weeks pregnant with her quintuplets, Roxanna measured the same as a woman full term with one baby. She also had to eat 7,000 calories a day to maintain a healthy weight.

Michael, 28, had to return to work just 11 days after Roxanna gave birth, and was deployed when they were just six months old.

She said: 'Those first few months were a blur. We were changing 50 to 60 diapers a day, having daily doctor visits because they were premature.

Family day out: Michael and Conner with the quintuplets, all waiting in their super stroller.

Growing brood: Michael and Roxanna go for a picnic with son Conner and their quintuplets.

'It was constant chaos, no sleeping. I was just running off half an hour sleep.

'We had to chart everything so we didn't get it confused. Many times we felt overwhelmed but we had to find the joy in all of it.'

To help tell her children apart, Roxanna painted their toes with different colours.

The family are now looking forward to a holiday to Disneyland in May, and counting down the days until Michael returns in August.

Roxanna, who formerly served in the United Air Force as an EMT, added: 'I try to take each moment as it comes. 'It's important to find the time to myself, even it's a few moments going outside to pick up the mail in the morning. 'They will be at preschool next year which is a bag of mix emotions as they have been my whole life for the last two years.'

Source: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-4374996/Mother-seven-captures-life-touching-family-album.html

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