Proud grandparents

[GrannyMac]

You have this to come Alex!  It doesn't seem long from their first day of school to being teenagers going travelling, working, university 💞

[Mups]

Grandson got a C, A merit and a distinction in his Btecs, and has been accepted for Buckinghamshire New University for Music Production

Good for him, Vlad.   Well done.  

[Alex]

You have this to come Alex!  It doesn't seem long from their first day of school to being teenagers going travelling, working, university 💞

Yeah I was a late starter    hope I'm still around to see him to go senior school.

[Dextrous63]

Yeah I was a late starter    hope I'm still around to see him to go senior school.

I taught a pupil who ended up being a grandmother by the age of 30.  Makes one think.

[GrannyMac]

My sister in law was a teacher, secondary school. She had some very similar families, where she had taught at least three generations.  By the time she was having children, she was teaching the teens of former pupils. 

We were in our sixties before we became grandparents, however it was our children who were late starters. 

[Scrumpy]

We were in our sixties before we became grandparents, however it was our children who were late starters. 

I was a Nanny in my late forties...  I have great grandchildren...

[GrannyMac]

I was a Nanny in my late forties...  I have great grandchildren...

My friend was forty, she has seven grandchildren, but no greats yet.  My oldest GD is 18, my kids were 30s and 40s before they became parents. 

[Scrumpy]

When I looked back I realised that being a teenage mum and a young bride bloody stupid..

When I now look back I know that my grandchildren made being a young widow much easier to deal with..
They are all happy and are doing really well.. So proud of them..
They keep me on my toes.. and talk of things that i would never have discussed with my mum..

[Mups]

I  married at 18, Scrumps.    I only ever had one child,  a boy. He was born a couple of weeks after I was 21.   He was born on New Years Eve.

He's always liked the ladies,  and I despaired of him ever settling down.
He was with one nice girl on/off for about 10 years,  but I knew it couldn't have been right else they wouldn't keep breaking up.

Anyway,  finally when he was about 53/54,  he fell head over heels for a girl. 
He went all soft and  goo-ey  I'd never seen him like that before.   
She is about three years older than him,  and has two grown up boys with a chap she was with many years back.   Nice lads.  They both have their own homes now.

My son married last year,  they are so well matched, and happy.   It is their first anniversary in a couple of weeks time,  and they are going away for a week to Portugal to celebrate with her two lads and their families too.   

I hope they will always be together, and I am so glad he is settled at last,  before I depart. 
She is a lovely lady,  a Nurse,  and a very caring girl.

So I will never have any grandchildren as they are both past all that,  but I do have two very nice lads as sort of 'adopted'  grandsons. 

[GrannyMac]

That's so nice Mups.  My daughter met her now husband in her mid forties. She'd already got my youngest granddaughter.  We were glad to see her settled too.

I met my OH when we were teenagers, married at 21, then had two children in our early 20s. We had some hard years, but if we make another two, we'll be getting a telegram!    I'm glad our children haven't had it so tough.  Grandchildren certainly haven't. I think they appreciate how lucky they are...

[Dextrous63]

Crikey.  Paper anniversary eh?  Seems only yesterday that you were at their wedding (with an infection IIRC)

[Mups]

That's so nice Mups.  My daughter met her now husband in her mid forties. She'd already got my youngest granddaughter.  We were glad to see her settled too.

I met my OH when we were teenagers, married at 21, then had two children in our early 20s. We had some hard years, but if we make another two, we'll be getting a telegram!    I'm glad our children haven't had it so tough.  Grandchildren certainly haven't. I think they appreciate how lucky they are...

That will be lovely.   Well done, Granny.  

[Vlad]

Crikey.  Paper anniversary eh?  Seems only yesterday that you were at their wedding (with an infection IIRC)

Our 55th anniversary at the end of this month. Emerald so I am told.

[Mups]

Our 55th anniversary at the end of this month. Emerald so I am told.

Good on you both.  That takes some doing, Vlad.  

Sadly now,  I shall never even have a 'Wood'  one -  (5 years).

[Dextrous63]

Good on you both.  That takes some doing, Vlad. 

Sadly now,  I shall never even have a 'Wood'  one -  (5 years)

Quite right about Vlad.

Sad about wood, Mups😢


On the topic matter, the tuttees I taught achieved a grade 7 (which he very happy about), and the other got a grade 8.  Also happy.  I messaged the grade 8 pupil to tell him that if he had taken more notice of what I taught him, he'd have achieved a grade 6😬😬