Counting my blessings

I have 4 grandsons & probably no more but I've never felt the pull of a granddaughter, although I did for a daughter and luckily my 3rd was a girl but she's no girly girl.

I'm sure you will come to terms with it

Read this with interest I have three sons and would of loved a daughter. I now gave mixed grandchildren and do count my blessings. My husbands workmate went on holiday sane time as us we got back to the news his fabulous holiday which he'd worked seven days a week for he'd died three days into it heart attack only 62 never even got to retire! Makes me think live for the day as my dear dad used to say .

I do hope things improve for your latest grandson 2old4hotpants.

I think it takes something like your experience to make us count our blessings as we are all so busy getting on with our lives to stop and think.

Not in the same league at all, but a friend's DH died last week, while they were away in their campervan, of a massive heart attack. He was only 71. It's certainly pulled me up short when I heard.

I think most of us hope for a mixed family and the same with grandchildren.

I have counted my blessings as a grandmother ever since DGD's birth. When DGD was a few months old I accompanied DDiL, with DGD, when she went to view the house they now own. We were shown round by the female householder,she had been a nursery nurse and worked with little children all her life, but told us, towards the end of the viewing, with visible emotion, that both her DSs and wives had decided not to have children.

My sympathies were all with her, DS and wife had married quite late and wanted children but we knew that, at nearly 40, DDiL's chances of conceiving were reducing almost by the day, so the possibility of not being a grandparent had been faced and dealt with. The arrival of DGD and, later, her little brother, have always been seen as wonderful blessing and bonus.

The whole business of wanting a boy or a girl makes no sense to me. Having had 3 healthy girls I certainly do count my blessings; and got quite cross with those who commiserated with me on the birth of a third girl - actually cross is not the word - I was quite rude on one occasion!

I am sorry to hear that your little GS has such serious health problems and hope all will be well for him.