Ha, Jesse! That's funny considering my mom was a mother at 18, a grandmother at 36 and a great-grandmother at 56.
This is not unusual for my family, sadly.
Nobody can tell Marmaduke what to do. That's my kind of dog.
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Cashmere - Jul 13, 2008 4:30:05 pm PDT #7708 of 10003
Now tagless for your comfort.
Jesse - Jul 13, 2008 4:35:05 pm PDT #7709 of 10003
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Not unusual for a lot of families!
Did I post about my friend's son's video game idea? He figured he could do a movie/game/tshow deal with fighting gorillas (and "they'll explode when they die!"). the villian would be Ficious, an evil gorilla who throws poison fish!
That's awesome.
sarameg - Jul 13, 2008 4:40:32 pm PDT #7710 of 10003
D's other grandmother is in her 40s. And then there is Miss Louise, a great-grandmother to an 18 year old, and she's younger than my parents (63 and 66.)
I love the evil gorilla videogame idea.
has been seeing the fantastic grandparents my parents turned out to be.
Yup. One of my only major regrets about not planning to have kids was that I really wanted my parents to have the chance to be grandparents, and to see it. Thank goodness for my brother and SIL. They stepped right up! Now if only they decide for another and it's a girl (unlikely- but I'd love to see if/how it'd be different. Probably not much, but it's an untread path! But still not enough for me to either dare to tell SIL that or do it myself.)
Jesse - Jul 13, 2008 4:43:50 pm PDT #7711 of 10003
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
All the family age stuff is funny -- I told a coworker I was going to my grandmother's 89th birthday, and she said, "Your grandmother's young!" We're the same age, and I guess both of her grandmothers are mid-90s. I was like, dude, my other grandmother just turned 80! And my parents were married for like 7 years before I was born.
Cass - Jul 13, 2008 4:47:53 pm PDT #7712 of 10003
Bob's learned to live with tragedy, but he knows that this tragedy is one that won't ever leave him or get better.
Sara, that's lovely. By far my favorite thing about auntie-hood (as much as I get a kick out of the kid myself) has been seeing the fantastic grandparents my parents turned out to be.amych is me. Which is cooooooool.
I love being an aunt but I think I was most surprised at how amazing my parents are with the kids. I don't think my dad is looking forward to yet building yet another mission to explore the "History of San Diego."
megan walker - Jul 13, 2008 4:48:07 pm PDT #7713 of 10003
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
It's like the reverse of when I say my grandparents died in the 20s and 30s.
Susan W. - Jul 13, 2008 4:49:47 pm PDT #7714 of 10003
Good Trouble and Righteous Fights
Jesse - Jul 13, 2008 4:51:52 pm PDT #7715 of 10003
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
It's like the reverse of when I say my grandparents died in the 20s and 30s.
Woah. It sure is.
sarameg - Jul 13, 2008 4:54:38 pm PDT #7716 of 10003
My oldest grandparent would be 108 were he alive. The youngest, probably 97. Both my parents were born to parents over 30, and I wasn't born until my parents hit their 30s. They were all gone by the time I hit 20. Hell, three were gone by 16.
I hope my nephews have more time.
P.M. Marc - Jul 13, 2008 4:55:48 pm PDT #7717 of 10003
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
All the family age stuff is funny -- I told a coworker I was going to my grandmother's 89th birthday, and she said, "Your grandmother's young!" We're the same age, and I guess both of her grandmothers are mid-90s. I was like, dude, my other grandmother just turned 80! And my parents were married for like 7 years before I was born.
Your grandmother's young!
If my mother's parents were still alive, they'd be 107 and 106, respectively.
My "young" grandparent would have been 92 today, but she died at the ripe old age of 87.