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<blockquote data-quote="mstang67chic" data-source="post: 297584" data-attributes="member: 2459"><p>Every family is different but maybe your step-mom decided long ago that since her own kids were still young, she didn't want to be a grandma just yet?</p><p></p><p>Not that it works all the time! LOL My step-mom and I are only 10 years apart in age. She always told me that I needed to wait to have kids until SHE was done. I did but she never said how old mine had to be when I "had" them! LOL We adopted difficult child when he was 10. At the time, my oldest sister was 12 1/2, my brother was 9 and my youngest sister was 6. Step mom has a younger brother who, as my uncle, is only 4 years older than me. Actually, we are almost EXACTLY 4 years apart as his birthday is a few days after mine as his his fathers. </p><p></p><p>As for the spread out generations? LOL Got that covered too. My mom is the youngest of 9 kids. She has a niece a year OLDER than she is and her youngest niece/nephew is a few years younger than me. As a result, I have AND second cousins (first cousins once removed???) who are my age. And a couple of first cousins who are the same age as my aunts/uncles. In fact, my aunt (Mom's oldest sister) is only about 5 years younger than my grandmother on my bio dad's side.</p><p></p><p>Now that I think about it....remember the descriptions of who was who in Esther's pics from her grandaughter's wedding? If they weren't Jewish and didn't live in Isreal....that could be my family! LOL</p><p></p><p>It's not just my mom's side either. Bio dad's side is similar. Grandma married her first husband and had my uncle K, my dad and my aunt A. K is two years older than Dad, and Dad is about 4 years older than A. When A was maybe 4-6 weeks old, my bio grandfather was killed in an accident. Eight years later Grandma remarried to the only Grandpa I knew. They had my uncle B in Dec. of '60 and my uncle (feels more like a brother) J in '65. (I came along in '70) Uncle B has 3 kids in their mid to late twenties and 3 grandkids under the age of 6 with one on the way. Earlier this year though, B re-married to a woman with 4 kids. The oldest is still in high school and the youngest are a 4 year old set of twins. </p><p></p><p>So yeah....I'm familiar with the age spread! LOL As for the his/her grandkids....I've seen that too. An uncle on my mom's side (now divorced) married his second wife in the late 60's and didn't divorce until the late 1990's or early 2000's. They kind of did the his and her thing too although it was kind of weird. While the grandkid situation was kind of seperate....my uncle was very close to "his" grandaughter.....who was actually HER grandaughter. *shrugs* It happens. I don't get it either but it happens.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="mstang67chic, post: 297584, member: 2459"] Every family is different but maybe your step-mom decided long ago that since her own kids were still young, she didn't want to be a grandma just yet? Not that it works all the time! LOL My step-mom and I are only 10 years apart in age. She always told me that I needed to wait to have kids until SHE was done. I did but she never said how old mine had to be when I "had" them! LOL We adopted difficult child when he was 10. At the time, my oldest sister was 12 1/2, my brother was 9 and my youngest sister was 6. Step mom has a younger brother who, as my uncle, is only 4 years older than me. Actually, we are almost EXACTLY 4 years apart as his birthday is a few days after mine as his his fathers. As for the spread out generations? LOL Got that covered too. My mom is the youngest of 9 kids. She has a niece a year OLDER than she is and her youngest niece/nephew is a few years younger than me. As a result, I have AND second cousins (first cousins once removed???) who are my age. And a couple of first cousins who are the same age as my aunts/uncles. In fact, my aunt (Mom's oldest sister) is only about 5 years younger than my grandmother on my bio dad's side. Now that I think about it....remember the descriptions of who was who in Esther's pics from her grandaughter's wedding? If they weren't Jewish and didn't live in Isreal....that could be my family! LOL It's not just my mom's side either. Bio dad's side is similar. Grandma married her first husband and had my uncle K, my dad and my aunt A. K is two years older than Dad, and Dad is about 4 years older than A. When A was maybe 4-6 weeks old, my bio grandfather was killed in an accident. Eight years later Grandma remarried to the only Grandpa I knew. They had my uncle B in Dec. of '60 and my uncle (feels more like a brother) J in '65. (I came along in '70) Uncle B has 3 kids in their mid to late twenties and 3 grandkids under the age of 6 with one on the way. Earlier this year though, B re-married to a woman with 4 kids. The oldest is still in high school and the youngest are a 4 year old set of twins. So yeah....I'm familiar with the age spread! LOL As for the his/her grandkids....I've seen that too. An uncle on my mom's side (now divorced) married his second wife in the late 60's and didn't divorce until the late 1990's or early 2000's. They kind of did the his and her thing too although it was kind of weird. While the grandkid situation was kind of seperate....my uncle was very close to "his" grandaughter.....who was actually HER grandaughter. *shrugs* It happens. I don't get it either but it happens. [/QUOTE]
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