My best and oldest friend, Becky, just became a grandmother. My best friend here became a grandmother last June. One of my good high school friends also became a grandmother last year. It’s a little freaky, considering I still feel about 29 inside, to think that I’m well past grandmother age. We all apparently waited much longer than the previous generation, but that makes sense considering we all had our kids much later, too. My mom was 23 when she had me. I was just 33 when I had Martin.
I’m in NO hurry to become a grandmother myself, though I might feel differently in another 10 years, if nothing has changed. Neither of my kids appear to be any hurry either, which I think is good, because they are much too young to be having kids at 26 and nearly 25, haha! And the fact that they are both in same-sex relationships also means I probably don’t have to worry about it for awhile. Not expecting any expecting, if you see what I mean.
Anyway, Becky’s daughter, whose middle name is Elizabeth (for me!), just had a baby girl. The baby’s name is Kiera Xi-Yuan Ho. I have yet to see photos of her but I bet she’s as cute as a button. Her mom certainly was (and is) and so is her grandmother. I may be biased, but there it is.
The only thing that would be kind of sad about neither of my children having children is the end of our family tree branch. Since I’m the unofficial keeper of all things family tree for my mom’s extended family, and have always made a hobby out of keeping it updated, I think it would be a bit of a bummer if there wasn’t continuation there. But it’s not the end of the world, and I am not one for thinking just having children for the having of children’s sake is a good thing. That was a mouthful to write.
I get emails all year long from cousins and great-aunts and relatives twice removed with updates on weddings and deaths and babies and new addresses, etc. At the beginning of January, I send out an email to the entire list of relatives and ask them to make sure they’ve given me all the new info from the previous year. I update our family address list and our family tree, and then once I’ve gotten in all the responses by the deadline, I send out the updated documents. I keep the family tree updated on my website, too. Everyone writes me back to say how much they appreciate it, but it’s minimal work that I enjoy and which feeds my need for order, so there’s no hardship on my part. I love doing it.
I didn’t really want to have kids myself, as you may have heard me say in the past. Meeting Anders changed that, but I was never really into having babies. Of course, once they arrived, I very much appreciated them and was glad I had them. My kids are great! They made having children worth it. 😀
I guess we’ll just have to wait and see if they take the reproduction plunge themselves someday.
Mood: elderly
Music: Sky—Love Song