Good looking kids. Hopefully they'll grow to inherit some of those good genes that's have served you well. Congratulations. Hope you had a splendid Christmas.
You are very observant. That would be my other granddaughter Denise, pregnant with her first and named Ephraim when born.
@Lon Tanner I gotta agree there is fabric in having one's own children grow up and have children of their own. It's a substance, basic to all. I see now in my own "old-age", the reluctance I had as a young man to raise children, which was based on self-centered desire for freedom: vacations, go anywhere at any time, do something on the spur of the moment, might just as well be called selfishness. I do not regret those early ideas, but I do regret them, but only now. I did "inherit" two minor children, 11 and 16, who were no longer really children, finished raising them though they were not my own, and we all painfully knew it, thereby experiencing a bit of "child-rearing", but that has not "cleansed the lack". Today, one is dead, the other may be; no one knows. Frank
We have 5 children (2 mine, 3 his), 11 grandchildren (4 of them are step-grands) and no great-grands. None of our grandchildren are adults.
@Beth Gallagher Having produced no children of my own intentionally, I draw up short when listening to, for example, contestants on Wheel of Fortune, reciting their kids' and grandkids' names and ages: of what significance is that information, in reality? Sure, I understand they are proud. Perhaps I'd be the same way, but as things stand, some folks cannot understand, or ask in disbelief, how I could choose to not have a kid. Frank
Three adult granddaughters, one related to me, two steps. Two little sort-of-step granddaughters. One related great-granddaughter and another one due in July.