I'm so old ...

[Ptah]

I'm so old my father is 93.

[marzipanni]

1. You're a youngster!

MY dad would be 111 at the end of this year!

[Ptah]

4. Your father might have known my maternal grandmother, born in 1901.

[Moondog]

2. If my father were still alive

he would have been 96 this coming July (I was a late in life child). He's been gone for quite a while now. And I still miss him.

[AnneD]

3. I thank God every day....

that at my age, I can still pick up the phone and call Mom. She was 18 when she had me.

[Tuesday Afternoon]

5. such a great photo -

is it my computer or does it have a blue-ish cast to it?

[LiberalEsto]

6. My father would be 97 and my mom 92

if they were alive, but they passed away a long time ago.

I'm seven years older now than my mom was when she died in 1975.

Weird to think about that.

[pipi_k]

11. It really is weird

to think about that stuff.

Both of my kids are older than their great grandmother (my mom's mother) was when she passed away in 1953 at the age of 33.

[GentryDixon]

7. You are so lucky to be able to say that.

Monday was 10 years since my Dad passed. My Mom has been gone since since Oct 2006.

I started my genealogy after both passed, and it makes me so mad I did not spend more time delving into their early lives. What I would not give to ask my Mom about her scoundrel granddaddy. Her Dad alluded to his mischief in a tape made in 1980, but got side tracked and did not finish his train of thought. I did find he and my great great grandparents were not living together in the 1885 Nebraska census. She was living with my soon to be great grandmother, he with my soon to be great grand uncle. How can you live together for over 50+ years and then book? The old coot was about 75 and ended up marrying a nurse who was living in the same town as they were in the 1880 census.

Give your Dad a big hug for all of us who don't have our parents.

[IrishEyes]

8. My mom had me when she was in their mid thirties.

My grandmother had her when she was in her early thirties. She was her second child and she had four more kids after that. My great grandmother was in her early thirties when she had her first child who was my grandmother. After that she had had five more kids. All big Irish families. My grandmother lived to be 95.

Having kids late is a trend in my family.

[Honeycombe8]

9. Great pic! Is that a real pic of your dad and you and brother?

Or one of those wallet nostalgic pics?

[harmonicon]

10. So, you're someone between 0 and 70-something.

Got it.

I have a friend my age (mid-30's) whose grandfather was born in the 1860s, and was 70-something when his father was born in the 1930s.