Mum-of-11 shows how she organises her bumper family’s presents for Christmas, and everyone has the same question

ARE you feeling the stress of getting all your presents ready for Christmas?

A mum-of-11 has revealed the mammoth mission she undertakes when it comes to wrapping her family’s gifts during the festive season.

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Alicia Dougherty showed herself organising her presents for her 11 kidsCredit: Tiktok/@doughertydozen

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Alicia regularly shows off her busy life on TikTok

Alicia Dougherty from New York, and her husband Josh often share snippets of their family life on social media, and have posted videos of their Christmas preparations.

In a recent clip which has racked up 56,000 likes, the busy mum showed her lounge piled high with gifts.

In a sped- up video, she then showed herself attempting to bring some order to the Amazon cardboard boxes.

On her @doughertydozen account, she explained: “Sorting Christmas presents for my 11 kids.”

First, she removed all the packaging and then set about sorting the mini fridges, clothes, teddies and toys into piles for each child.

After a lot of effort, she had managed to get her kids’ items separated out into piles – but the hard work wasn’t over.

Alicia added: “Christmas Presents sorted. Now it’s time to wrap!”

Many people were impressed with her dedication, with one person writing: “looks like quite the project!”

Another added: “Oh goodness! Sending you love on this wrapping day… that is a LOT to wrap.”

However, some viewers had the same query after seeing the clip.

One said: “What do u guys do for work cause 11 kids is a lot of money.”

Both Alicia and Josh are special education teachers, but Alicia works part time and helps run the household.

Josh and Alicia Dougherty struggled with infertility and recurrent pregnancy loss for nine years and so decided to adopt from foster care.

Their first child Alex moved in in 2010 and they adopted him in 2011 when he was five years old.

Just six days after adopting Alex, the couple found out they were pregnant with Zoe, who was born in 2012.

Next the family adopted James, who formally joined the foursome when he was six years old back in 2013.

It was only two weeks later that they found out they were once again pregnant with Dash.

Next up, they were asked to take in twins Jason and Jordan.

This was only supposed to be a temporary foster care placement for five days in 2015, but three years later the family adopted them.

The couple then had two more biological children Bodi-Blaze, who was born in 2016 and Harlee-Quintin, born in 2018.

Just after Harlee-Quintin was born they found out about siblings Patrick and Brie who were in a residential treatment facility and needed an adoptive family.

They took in the brother and sister to avoid them being separated.

Finally they opened their home to Deshaun and Nivea, who Alicia explained were the children of a friend and they would be staying as long as they needed.

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Alicia sorted the gifts into pilesCredit: Tiktok/@doughertydozen

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It took about 50 minutes to sort the giftsCredit: Tiktok/@doughertydozen

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Alicia then had to wrap them all upCredit: Tiktok/@doughertydozen