A woman with 13 siblings says they got through 35 loads of laundry a week and now refuse to live more than 30 minutes apart so they don't "miss" each other.<br /><br />Sarah Van Reeth, 24, grew up surrounded by her big family and is “best friends” with all her brothers and sisters.<br /><br />She has seven brothers – Ryan, who passed away aged 25, Matt, 30, Josh, 27, Nate, 25, Mike, 21, Jon, 18, and Andrew, 15.<br /><br />Sarah also has six sisters – Meghan, 29, Becca, 22, Nicole, 19, Emily, 16, Danielle, 14, and Laurel, seven.<br /><br />The older siblings still live within 30 minutes of their family home in New Hope, Pennsylvania, US, and see each other once a week at church.<br /><br />Sarah says her mum, Kim Wilson, 59, cooked for them all growing up and did up to five loads of laundry every day.<br /><br />Sarah, a PE teacher, who lives in Hamilton, New Jersey, with her husband, Mark Van Reeth, 25, said: “It was so fun growing up.<br /><br />“We’re all best friends.<br /><br />“Everyone is within 30 minutes of our parents.”<br /><br />Kim and Cuck Wilson, 60, a pastor, had always wanted a big family but hadn’t expected to end up with 13 children. <br /><br />Sarah said: “They wanted a good amount but God kept giving them more kids.”<br /><br />The family adopted Laurel, seven, when their son Ryan, 25, passed away, giving them 14 children.<br /><br />Growing up the family had six bedrooms and they each shared a room.<br /><br />Sarah said: “Everyone shared a room growing up.<br /><br />“I didn’t have my own bed until college.<br /><br />“I didn’t like being alone.<br /><br />“The hardest part was being away from my siblings.”<br /><br />Sarah said her mum still managed to cook for them all every night – and she says they still do when they all reunite.<br /><br />She said: “My mum is a superhero.<br /><br />“She made us all dinner. She did all the laundry – four to five loads a day.<br /><br />“She can multi-task.”<br /><br />Sarah married Mark, who works in video production, in August 2022 and the pair moved in together.<br /><br />Sarah said: “I don’t like being alone now. It’s really quiet.”<br /><br />The siblings have never got each other presents for their birthdays – so the cost isn’t too high – and do a secret Santa at Christmas instead of gifting lots of individual presents to everyone.<br /><br />Sarah said: “We’re not a presents kind of family.”<br /><br />The family all still go on holiday together for the 4th July and see each other on set days around Christmas and Thanksgiving.<br /><br />Sarah says strangers thinking having so many siblings must be “horrible”.<br /><br />She said: “It’s not like a circus.<br /><br />“I’d never change anything about our childhood.<br /><br />“We operated as a very normal family.”<br /><br />Sarah loves being able to hang out with her younger siblings, six nieces and nephews and older brothers and sisters.<br /><br />She hopes to have a large family herself one day.<br /><br />Sarah said: “We all prioritise seeing each other.<br /><br />“I definitely want a big family – probably about four or five kids.”
