Quick update - family

[lovingboth]

My mother died on Monday afternoon, aged 74. I'd been warned on the Sunday that her condition had detoriated since I last saw her (Thursday) so it didn't come as a big surprise.

I'm more or less ok, and realise that my sister who lives in the same town, has had it worse.

The bit that does upset me is the grandchildren issue - my maternal grandmother had her children early and got to see eleven grandchildren grow up, all but one basically happy. We had her. That's not been the case here, my neice and nephew are 13 and 14, and JoJo's still four, and it feels like both sides lose. It's also reminded me that I'm unlikely to see grownup grandchildren.

Comments

[mankylarry.livejournal.com]

Sorry to hear your news. I never met my paternal or maternal grandparents, and both my parents are dead, so if I ever have children, they will never see their paternal grandparents too. Also I'm nearly 40 and if I do have children, then the children will have older parents similar to myself, both my parents were in their 40's when they adopted me.

Laurence