She’s one of many, if you haven’t already noticed (I have 31 cousins). When she was a baby, I was a teenager, and I used to carry her around on my hip and play with her.
Now she’s the teenager and she’s playing with my kids (she had a rousing game of hide and seek going with them the other day!). I love it.
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That is really sweet. I love big families. Our church is really like our family because they come to parties, graduations, weddings, showers, and picnics. I only have two cousins, but I have four siblings. So hopefully, someday my kids will have lots of cousins to play with.
Absolutely. My youngest brother hasn’t started having kids yet, but there are already 11 grandkids from the other 3 of us. And as of right now, we all live within 15 minutes of each other, so my kids do get to see their cousins fairly regularly.
Yes, that is what I hope happens to us. I can’t wait until my sisters and brother get married and we can send out kids out to play together. How fun. I am sure they will be begging for us to come play with them, like my siblings and I did to my parents and their friends. I never understood why they just wanted to sit still. Ha. Now I understand and I don’t even have kids yet.
My husbands three siblings have kids, but they all live far away from us.
I used to babysit them (well, four of them – there is a 5th on the way!!) and it was so much fun!
I have over 50 cousins on one side of my family and 20 or so on the other. Now the cousins are starting to have kids. When I was 10, family gatherings were the best thing ever. They’re still a lot of fun and I really value having a lot of family.
Holy moly! You put my cousin numbers to shame! lol
First cousins?!?
Not counting my mom’s side, but on my father’s side only, my grandparents had 60 grandchildren; after subtracting my siblings and I, there were 54 first cousins.
Irish Catholic.
When I was a girl, my younger aunts and uncles were the coolest. Now I get to be the fun big cousin for my younger cousins – it’s really the greatest feeling! (I think I’ve got 30 first cousins – the numbers keep getting bigger now with merged families and with us older cousins are getting married. That’s a far cry from 54 or 70 cousins – I would need a chart to keep everyone straight!)
It’s lovely that you know all your cousins. I have hundreds of them but really only know the ones on my mum’s side and even then most of them only well enough to chat at weddings and funerals if you know what I mean. I don’t even know the names of all of my cousins on my dad’s side. I should get someone to count for me sometime, I’m sure there aren’t really hundreds but there’s definitely more than 100 (first cousins – don’t even get me started on their kids and other variations of cousin – whenver I’m in Galway it seems like every other person I see is explained away to me as a cousin of some sort!). There were eight in my mum’s family and twelve in my dad’s and I do know (would recognise and could name I mean) all of them but as each of them had at least two kids and most of them five or six, with us being among the youngest, we just didn’t see them that often. Yep, Irish Catholics, large families (when I first came to Germany I was asked if my parents didn’t have a telly. LOL)