Saturday, August 30, 2014

Happy

I never had children of my own, never really wanted them, but I do have two beautiful, wonderful nieces whom I adore. One is so much like me that you would think she is my clone. You look at her, then at a picture of my mother, and a picture of me, you know we belong. If you knew me growing up, there was a certain amount, oh hell what am I saying, there was a lot of wild child there. Same with my sweet K. I had an older mentor who helped me get out of a few jams and guide me along the way. My K had me.

Then there is M. My MJP.  She has my initials. She has my blood. She has always had my heart. Yet, she looks nothing like me. She acts nothing like me and never has. No, that's not true. She is fun loving like me. She is kind like me. She is compassionate like me. One thing she is not like me, she has always wanted children.

Fast forward to 2009, my M meets the love of her life. They live. They love. They travel. They want to spend the rest of their lives together. Oops, one problem, love of the life has been married before. No, that's not the problem. Love of the life has two kids. Nope, that's not the problem either. Love of her life has had a vasectomy. My MJP tells LOHL that the only way she will marry him is if he will reverse the vasectomy and try to have a child.

Their wedding was beautiful.

I've been told by M not to blow this up right now on Facebook. So, I will write this little ditty on my blog so my two and one half followers will read of my excitement.

I'm going to be a great aunt. And, yes, I will be Great Aunt.

7 comments:

  1. I think you have always been a Great Aunt!

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  2. How cool is that? Congrats to you and your niece.

    (We have something in common, I have never wanted kids either. I have an even dozen nieces/nephews and eight (or nine) greats and even though I love my relations in a distant "they are my relatives and I love them" kind of way, I'm a terrible aunt.)

    Congrats again.

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    1. Yep, zero desire. Only have the two nieces. As a caveat, my newly pregnant niece is 42.

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    2. WoW! Good for her. I hear that the older you are when you get pregnant, the greater the chance for twins. (My neighbor, who is 38, just found out that she is pregnant with twins. She was VERY surprised.) Maybe you'll get lucky and have a pair of greats.

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    3. My 32 year old step daughter just had a baby boy after two rounds of IVF. Science is a wonderful thing for some. They did not know the gender until it popped out. The OB didn't even know for fear he would let the cat off the proverbial bag, so to speak.

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