Am I all alone now?

Clara - posted on 05/27/2012

You are blessed, you are going to enjoy your son and grandson play together, they will be buddies.

Anne - posted on 05/07/2012

I am the daughter of a mom and dad that had four daughters with 18 years between my oldest sister and myself the youngest daughter. My oldest sister I have 2 nieces and 3 nephews. I am 57, my oldest niece will be 55 in August, her sister will be 53 in August, My oldest Nephew will be 51 in August, the girls have a brother that will be 49 in June and the youngest grandchild is a nephew that is the younger brother of the almost 51 year old. Our daughters are 27 and 23.

I can not tell you what it was like for my sisters, and my mom, but for me growing up with the 6 of us so close in age was a lot of fun. The grands always called me Aunt Annie, Now I am Aunt Anne, YES the E is Silent in Anne. My closest sister in age in turned 60 in Feb. My sister that would be 70 passed away 32 years ago this June. We are all good friends and even though only two nephews live in the same state as I do when we do get together the years we are apart seem to fall away. My daughters are the ages of the Great Grand Children. Again not a big deal. My oldest sister and I are very close.

I hope some of this helped and you do not feel liked I highjacked your post. If you do feel free to delete my post I will totally Understand!

Tammy - posted on 05/01/2012

I also am an older mom. I am 53 and my husband and I have been married 34 years. We have 8 children ages 32, 31, 29, 25, 21, 18, 13 and 9. I was pregnant with my 9 year old when my oldest was pregnant with her second.

It is a very different feel to have children later in life than when in my 20's and 30's. In many ways I am gentler, kinder and more sensitive. I am also more allowing, encouraging and supportive of my children's journeys than when I was still struggling to find out who I was and how I fit into the world. Being an older mom is beautiful and more effortless for me. I am much more likely to follow my intuition now rather than look for parenting advise from outside of myself. I think this is of great value to my children.

Treasure every moment with that sweet baby boy. The thing I miss most about my children growing up??? The babies!!!! Especially when they wake up and I would come in to pick them up and they would be so excited and joyful to see me. Such love in life we are lucky to share as human beings.

Shella - posted on 04/22/2012

Hi... I am an "Older" mom here... I have a soon to be 30 year old son a 23 year old daughter and 2 more son's who are 7 and 9. My daughter Sherry passed away almost 11 years ago at the age of 16. My 7 year old was born a week before my 40th birthday. I have 3 beautiful grand daughters who are 1, 3, and 6. So you are not alone... and actually far from it. There are lots of us out here somewhere. Life is busy here... but it is wonderful and I would not trade my life for anything on this earth... as I am putting my boys down to bed. lol I am going to add you if you don't mind. Hopefully we can connect with more mothers who have little ones in our age group. :)