Since I last posted about grandkids, our family has grown quite a bit! I keep thinking we are at capacity and my kids keep surprising me!
DD1- has 2 bios, 2 fosters that they in the final stages of adopting, and 1 foster, who is fairly new in the system, but they are willing to adopt should it come to that.
DS - 2 bios
DD2 - 2 bios, 2 adopted (X and Z!) and 2 fosters.
DD3 - 1 step daughter and DD3 also had a baby girl in December!! (remember when I started blogging here, she was just a little girl!!)
That's 15 grandkids!!
(One of DD2's friends lives in my parents little house here on our property and she has 2 kids, who are just like grandkids to me....so 17 total if you count them, which I do.)
Family gatherings are quite the event anymore. So many kiddos!
Years ago, I set up a special savings account in order to give them each a graduation and wedding gift. I am so thankful that I did. I have deposited $100 a month, and the account is now over $5k. By the time each graduates and gets married, I should have $500 for each occasion. Its not much, but with a family this size, it is what I can afford.
I am blessed beyond belief with all these amazing little humans!! It does make Christmas and Birthdays a challenge- it takes a very organized spreadsheet to keep everything organized!
Our growing family
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5 kids (us)
19 grandkids
46 great grandbabies (plus one due any day)
6 great great grandbabies
this is direct family and does not include step children in each catergories...we average around 3 babis a year one year we had 5 born...about to have our 4th born this year..I love our big family
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