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My oldest daughter is going to have a girl! I'm so excited-- she already has three boys.
Share in my joy sisters and brothers another girl being brought into the world is going to have a feminist Nana!!
God I feel like dancing. Don't get me wrong, I adore my 3 grandsons and my 2 other granddaughters, but I'm sooo excited.
cinnabonbon
(860 posts)What an awesome surprise!
ismnotwasm
(42,443 posts)I'm still excited
hrmjustin
(71,265 posts)ismnotwasm
(42,443 posts)I'm just beside myself-- and my daughter is very excited as well
hrmjustin
(71,265 posts)1StrongBlackMan
(31,849 posts)with your input, she is certain to have a good sense of self.
The armor any "minority" child can have is an unafraid teacher ... that looks like them.
ismnotwasm
(42,443 posts)My daughter and SIL are ex military, with a couple of unfortunate side effects from that. But I have them in my heart and soul and my grand kids are going to know they are the future-- they get to change it. My oldest grandson can already talk 'feminist' and is such a decent young boy. The little guys will get it when there a bit older, my second daughter and SIL are all about raising their little girls to be string independent women.
I raised them as a feminist, an vehement anti-racist and a liberal. A lot of it shows more the older they get, and they leave off youth culture. I never realized how influential parents are when your 'kids' hit their 30's
kcr
(15,522 posts)ismnotwasm
(42,443 posts)hlthe2b
(106,213 posts)Heaven knows we need more little feminists!
Congrats to you and yours, ism
ismnotwasm
(42,443 posts)I haven't been this excited over a new grand baby in a long time
(I swear I turned around and the girls started breeding)
wandy
(3,539 posts)ismnotwasm
(42,443 posts)sufrommich
(22,871 posts)don't want and aren't having kids,I would never tell them this,but I feel a little grandma deprived. Another feminist enters the world,great!!!
ismnotwasm
(42,443 posts)Am slightly appalled at how fecund they are. There all cute though and they all represent the future
sufrommich
(22,871 posts)Lucky you.
redqueen
(115,164 posts)ismnotwasm
(42,443 posts)Squinch
(52,568 posts)ismnotwasm
(42,443 posts)After 3 boys this is excellent news
She has big kids too, I'm thinking she's hoping for a smaller one but I don't think it works that way
Tuesday Afternoon
(56,912 posts)Great news
ismnotwasm
(42,443 posts)It's awesome this is her last kid ( I hope) and she really wanted a girl
malthaussen
(17,658 posts)From a Doonesbury comic strip, http://doonesbury.slate.com/strip/archive/1973/12/13
-- Mal
ismnotwasm
(42,443 posts)BainsBane
(54,728 posts)I'm very happy for you!
Cofitachequi
(112 posts)This granddaddy is now putty in two sets of hands.
I'm certain you are going to cherish this one as much as the others! Congrats!!!
MineralMan
(147,445 posts)Mister Ed
(6,350 posts)Thank you for bringing back memories of the happiest day of my life: the day Mrs. Ed and I huddled together over that desk phone in her office with the receiver pressed between our heads, waiting breathlessly while the nurse at the other end of line read the results of the amniocentesis.
"girlgirlgirlgirlgirlgirlgirl...", we whispered softly together. We knew, at our advanced age, that this might be our only child.
"girlgirlgirlgirlgirlgirl...". It meant the world to us. I can't explain why.
And we held our breath as that nurse declared, "...it's a healthy, baby GIRL!"
Oh. Oh.
Oh, the wonder.
I hope that your girlgirlgirlgirlgirlgirlgirl brings you all the joy that ours has brought us these sixteen years.