{"id":2431,"date":"2022-08-05T01:57:15","date_gmt":"2022-08-05T01:57:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kmccullough.com\/kblog\/?p=2431"},"modified":"2022-08-03T15:22:26","modified_gmt":"2022-08-03T15:22:26","slug":"im-a-great-grandmother","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kmccullough.com\/kblog\/im-a-great-grandmother\/","title":{"rendered":"I\u2019m a Great-Grandmother!"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Vinnie at 3 weeks<\/p><\/div>\n

In May, 2022, my oldest granddaughter gave birth to a baby boy. He’s a beautiful, adorable baby, of course!<\/p>\n

I\u2019m still trying to process being a great-grandmother. I\u2019m not really that old. (Am I?) Early seventies isn\u2019t really old, right? I don\u2019t feel old. (Except when I\u2019m having a Covid relapse, but that\u2019s happening less and less frequently.) I walk a mile and a third to a mile and a half almost every day and do strength exercises as well. I work in the garden most days. (When it isn\u2019t 95 at nine o\u2019clock on the morning.) I stay pretty active.<\/p>\n

Most of my grandchildren are still children. But my oldest daughter had her children early, which made me a grandmother for the first time at the age of 42.\u00a0 And now, that grandchild just had her first child.<\/p>\n

Vinnie is adorable and precious.<\/p>\n

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Vinnie at 2 months<\/p><\/div>\n

But I\u2019m wrestling with what it means for me, personally.<\/p>\n

His birth reminds me that my time is winding down.<\/p>\n

I\u2019ve had a good life. I\u2019ve been married to the love of my life for more than fifty years, raised a great family, watched my children accomplish some amazing things, have wonderful grandchildren, and achieved a number of career goals. I\u2019m blessed to have lived to meet a great grandchild. I don\u2019t take that for granted. I know it\u2019s a privilege not given to all.<\/p>\n

Regrets? I have a few, but honestly I feel like if you don\u2019t have a few regrets at my age you either haven\u2019t really lived or you haven\u2019t examined your life in any serious way.<\/p>\n

But there are still things I want to do. I haven\u2019t written all the books and stories I have in me. There are many places I want to visit. I\u2019d like to see the rest of my grandchildren grow up.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m trying to take care of myself in hope that I\u2019ll have more years to do all those things. At the same time, I want to live in the knowledge that every day I still have is a gift.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In May, 2022, my oldest granddaughter gave birth to a baby boy. He’s a beautiful, adorable baby, of course! I\u2019m still trying to process being a great-grandmother. I\u2019m not really that old. (Am I?) Early seventies isn\u2019t really old, right? …<\/span> Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[70,64,1],"tags":[260,261],"class_list":["post-2431","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-family","category-musings","category-uncategorized","tag-grandmother","tag-great-grandmother"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmccullough.com\/kblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2431","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmccullough.com\/kblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmccullough.com\/kblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmccullough.com\/kblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmccullough.com\/kblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2431"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/kmccullough.com\/kblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2431\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2435,"href":"https:\/\/kmccullough.com\/kblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2431\/revisions\/2435"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmccullough.com\/kblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmccullough.com\/kblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmccullough.com\/kblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}