Too many children

A husband and his wife advertised for a live-in maid to cook and do the housework. They hired a lovely lass for the job. The maid worked out fine. She was a good cook, was very polite and she kept the house neat. But then one day, after about six months, the housekeeper came in and said she would have to quit.

"But why?" asked the disappointed wife. The maid hemmed and hawed and said she just couldn't stay. But the wife was persistent, so finally the young housekeeper
confessed she was pregnant. The wife said, "Look, my husband and I can't have children, and we sure don't want to lose you. Why don't you stay. We'll adopt your baby."

The maid agreed to stay. The baby came. The couple adopted it, and all went well. A year later, the maid came in again and told her employer she was pregnant. Once again, the couple offered to adopt the child if the girl would agree to stay.

She agreed, the second child was born, and things returned to normal. The entire process was repeated yet again several months later. The couple, their three adopted children and the maid once again settled into a routine. But then the maid once again approached her employers and said she had to quit.

"Oh, Lord! You're not pregnant AGAIN?" exclaimed the lady of the house."

"No, no," the maid responded. "It's just that you just have too many kids to pick up after."