I started the day with an early morning trip with the youngest three children to the grocery store for some holiday shopping. On the way home, I got a call from my second daughter – we have a new granddaughter!
She was born this morning, on my husband’s birthday. This is also the same day that our son had his bris sixteen years ago.
Interestingly, our grandchildren have been born in ’rounds’ rather than staggered out, which is very nice for the grandchildren since as they get older they have cousins close in age to them. The first three granddaughters were born within eight months of one another; the next four boys were born within thirteen months. In round three were several grandchildren born in a few months, all but one were girls.
The fourth round began with the birth of my son’s daughter three and a half months ago (I don’t post about every birth), now this baby. Two more of our children are expecting babies in the fall so those babies will close out this ’round’.
It’s almost mind boggling how fast a family grows once children get married. At our last wedding, I was speaking with the father of our new daughter-in-law about photography logistics and he commented on the size of our family. I told him that only seven years before, we were in the same stage that they were, marrying off our first child and that the changes came very fast.
We are very blessed and we just wish we had more time to spend with all of these people we love. I suppose it’s a good problem to have!
Avivah
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