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.
Speaking of Baby Picspam... sometimes Joy and abject fear are close on the spectrum. though I do think this is joy.
Crappy video of pool-based Pop Goes the Weasel.
Noah is so skinny.
I just realized if my oldest uncle were still alive he would be 105.
It's like the reverse of when I say my grandparents died in the 20s and 30s.
A friend of mind in college's mother grew up orphaned and living on the streets of Paris during the Holocaust (she was jewish.) She shared it rather obliquely, but it left an impression, partly because it had always seemed like it was one more generation away. And it's funny to be reminded of it today, as in today's paper there was an obit on a local woman who'd survived the Holocaust with her infant son in Czechoslovakia at the time. They were all of her family to survive. She was 97, and I've seen her interviewed on her experience on various local specials.
Age range of grandparents by YOB: 1901-1916
Age range of great-grandparents, as known, by YOB: 1866 (per census data, family information claims 1868)-1890.
My grandmothers are both 93 (my grandfathers are both dead). But then Stephen's *father* is 83, which is weird for me.
My last grandparent died in 1986. I think they were all born 1900-1910, though I'm not positive about my dad's mother.
Miss USA just fell in the evening gown comp. for Miss Universe.
My grandparents were born 1909-1919. Great-grandparents were 1879-1892.
3 of my grandparents were gone before I was born. The last one died when I was maybe 6. It is great that my kids have been able to have grandparents. My sister was a grandmother at 39 with her grandkids being older than my kids. Wide ranges of ages. My mom will be 87 next month.
DH had grandparents. His paternal grandparents lived with us for about a year. It was like having grandparents for the first time in my life. And an extra set of hands for helping with my new baby, which rocked.
