The Grandparent Thread

[21C]

Feel free to use this as an all purpose dumping ground to talk about your grandparents or your parents as grandparents.

Me? I'm going to talk about becoming a first-time grandparent in September. I'm 61 and have also decided to retire from teaching (well, technically use up all of my remaining leave before I formally retire). I've been at FOFC since the early days - I even remember the first iteration as The Sideline. I remember people joking about our senior member (Bucc) back in the old days and now I'm officially a senior citizen. I think I was around since 1999 and FOF2 when my daughters were 8 and 5. That 5-year-old is now 31 and expecting my grandson. She is also putting an offer on a house today so hopefully that works out for her and her husband. I have offered some financial assistance if they potentially come up short.

BTW 40 years as a teacher and I realized that I've had enough. It was death by a thousand cuts that did me in. The students are still mostly good and I'm still good at my job but I'm just tired of the associated bullshit of a lot of minor changes.

[GrantDawg]

Congrats! My daughter turns 30 at the end of the year. It is crazy how much time has gone by while being a member of this board.

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[BYU 14]

Ugh, we welcome our 8th grandchild last year (62 years old), when I joined this site I had yet to meet my current wife (of soon to be 20 years) and my oldest kid was 19....Never really thought of how long ago that was.

[miami_fan]

Feel free to use this as an all purpose dumping ground to talk about your grandparents or your parents as grandparents.

Me? I'm going to talk about becoming a first-time grandparent in September. I'm 61 and have also decided to retire from teaching (well, technically use up all of my remaining leave before I formally retire). I've been at FOFC since the early days - I even remember the first iteration as The Sideline. I remember people joking about our senior member (Bucc) back in the old days and now I'm officially a senior citizen. I think I was around since 1999 and FOF2 when my daughters were 8 and 5. That 5-year-old is now 31 and expecting my grandson. She is also putting an offer on a house today so hopefully that works out for her and her husband. I have offered some financial assistance if they potentially come up short.

BTW 40 years as a teacher and I realized that I've had enough. It was death by a thousand cuts that did me in. The students are still mostly good and I'm still good at my job but I'm just tired of the associated bullshit of a lot of minor changes.

40 years in the classroom? Salute to you Sir!

I went from zero grandkids to four grandbabies back in December. The only thing I know so far is their parents only kinda sorta exist not that the grandbabies have come into my life. :D

[flere-imsaho]

I joined this site when I was just married and a few years away from having kids. Now I have one who is one year away from college, and one who enters high school in the fall.

[Honolulu_Blue]

It really is insane how long many of us have been around here. I've been a member of this board, in some form or another, for over half my life.