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MrsTracy
True Blue Farmgirl
145 Posts
Tracy
Beaufort
South Carolina
USA
145 Posts |
 Posted - Jul 05 2012 : 2:21:06 PM
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I am 44 next month and have been blessed with 5 grandsons, ages 4, 2, 2, 5 months and 1.5 months. Our youngest daughter has 3 boys and just found out she's carry another baby! She was so shocked that she dang near passed out in Bi-lo grocery store! Too funny!! Her hubby is an air traffic controller in the Marine Corp.
It always amazes me that so many people have so much to say about her reproduction abilities. She will be 22 in August and is on her second marriage. She married young the first time and had to divorce him as he was abusive. That was after two children. She met her new husband and they fell and love and have taken to reproducing! LOL!! He wanted more children but this will be the last as she has difficult pregnancies.
Whats funny is that her peers and even women who should know better seem to think she's wasting her life. We raised our daughter to value being a homemaker. She is highly intelligent and artistic and has a beautiful voice but all people can see is her having a load of children. Sad. We love our babies SO much and have always been co-parents with her. It galls me when folks seem to assume that she's on public assistance and the state is taking care of her children! Her hubby was meritoriously promoted to Sgt after being in the Corp for only 1.5 years! He was just featured on our local news station for being a top Marine. Yet people judge.
How many of you ladies married young and started having children right away? Did you catch a lot of flack because of your life choice?
Aspiring Titus II and Proverbs 31 Lady. |
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Simple Living
True Blue Farmgirl
1404 Posts
Joan
Staten Island
NY
USA
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Posted - Jul 05 2012 : 2:50:07 PM
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Congratulations to your daughter and her family and again to you grandma! I will be a grandma for the first time in September. I can't wait. I will have to tell my daughter to catch up with ya all lol.
A Friend is Someone who Reaches for your Hand, But Touches your Heart!
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clothedinscarlet
True Blue Farmgirl
1333 Posts
Siobhan
Battle Creek
MI
USA
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Posted - Jul 05 2012 : 2:55:53 PM
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I am on my fourth but I am 32 and have been married for 8 years and people give me enough flack about my crew. I also have three boys. I have a friend who got married at 19 after she and her boyfriend had already had one son and had a little girl on the way. Then, one year later they had a set of twin girls. So she is 21 now and has 4 children and they are praying hard for more, but it just hasn't happened yet. She is such a good mommy and a wonderful homemaker and she is doing exactly whatshe has always dreamed of and doing a heck of a job at it. People can be so strange. God created women to have children and keep house. Why do people look down on them for doing what God gifted them to do?
Farmgirl Sister #1110
Siobhan - AKA Liza-Jane (my farmgirl name), wife to my best friend, Trent, and mommy to Camden (11/28/05) and Bennett (7/11/07). and Truman (7/28/09) |
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MrsTracy
True Blue Farmgirl
145 Posts
Tracy
Beaufort
South Carolina
USA
145 Posts |
Posted - Jul 05 2012 : 3:12:39 PM
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Thanks SL and congratulations to you!
Clothedinscarlet, it is amazing how people often feel the need to regulate someone else's life! We feel SO blessed by the these precious gifts she's given to us. Our grands hold our hearts in their tiny little hands. My hubby just adores his boys and they are his shadows. I've been in the birthing room for all but one of my boys and each time is a miracle. I can't imagine anyone seeing children as a consequence or an unwanted interference. Its baffling. It makes me so proud to know that my daughter wants to be like me (even if she doesn't realize I'm not perfect) her desire makes me want to be a better mother, homemaker and wife because she is watching me and learning from me. I'm in awe at the responsibility.
Aspiring Titus II and Proverbs 31 Lady. |
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Bear5
True Blue Farmgirl
13055 Posts
Louisiana/Texas
USA
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Posted - Jul 05 2012 : 5:29:53 PM
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Tracy, such wonderful news. Lucky you. Thanks for sharing you great news with us. Keep us posted.
Marly
"It's only when we truly know and understand that we have a limited time on earth- and that we have no way of knowing when our time is up- that we will begin to live each day to the fullest, as if it was the only one we had." Elisabeth Kurler-Ross |
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laurentany
True Blue Farmgirl
3259 Posts
Laurie
Patchogue
NY
USA
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Posted - Jul 05 2012 : 7:23:03 PM
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Congratulations Tracy! And congratulations to your daughter too. I think that people should spend less time worrying about what other people are doing and more time focusing on just being a better human being! Wouldnt that make the world a much nicer place!
Enjoy your grandbabies!
Hugs,
~Laurie
"Little Hen House on the Island"
Farmgirl Sister#1403
Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away.. |
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FarmDream
True Blue Farmgirl
1085 Posts
Julie
TX
USA
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GirlwithHook
True Blue Farmgirl
922 Posts
Alyce
Madison
WI
USA
922 Posts |
Posted - Jul 06 2012 : 10:32:13 AM
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Congrats!
A hook, a book, and a good cup of coffee.... |
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JerseyGirl
True Blue Farmgirl
181 Posts
Michele
Southern NJ
USA
181 Posts |
Posted - Jul 08 2012 : 03:55:22 AM
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I'll be 44 next month too, Tracy, and my oldest is only 18...although I know it could happen any day, I don't see any grandchildren for quite a few years. My sister will be a grandmom at 42 and my SIL's just became one at 38....kinda makes me sad to see all these babies and not any of them are mine!
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ceejay48
Farmgirl Legend/Schoolmarm/Sharpshooter
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CeeJay (CJ)
Dolores
Colorado
USA
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