As a group, we will turn 100.
That's me at 46, wifey at 38, Lala at 7, Bidoy at 6 and Babi at 3.
Quite an amazing statistic really! So in another 20 years, we'll turn 200. Fingers crossed we're still all around for that milestone!
Not to put a sobering thought on things, but while we're talking about family ages, I may as well have a quick look at where my own original family is at as of today:
Dad (deceased): 71
Ma: 81
Mick (deceased): 61
Pete: 59
V: 59
Me: 46
Total: 377
Far out. That's a whole lot higher than I was expecting it to be! Incredible number of years when you add them all together. Obviously it helps when most of the family is over the half tonne mark, even so, it's huge.
The cycle of life hey. Numbers don't make it impersonal, they just contextualise it in my opinion. We're all on a journey, one that has a use-by-date in this physical world at least. As individuals, our numbers don't add up to all that much. As families, wow, suddenly they're massively impressive numbers with vast amounts of experience behind them.
Interesting thoughts...
Footnote/Update: So I am going through the blog and putting in images to make it a bit more interesting, such as the one in this post. It is now 2024, and Bidoy just turned 11. So when he turned 6, we hit thar magical ton as a family. Now though, well I am 51, wifey is 43, Loaf 12, B 11 and G 8. That all adds up to 125. Crikey that shot along quick. Hardly any surprise I suppose, given we go up by 5 each year. We'll be doing a Maxi and limping along to 200 before you know it!
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