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My husband and I, when we had our five children and they were grown, we thought we were entitled to grandchildren. And so we were just expecting this to happen; of course, nothing was happening. And then we kept begging, bribing, cajoling, anything - threatening to adopt our own grandchildren - and finally, we got some grandchildren.

Being a grandparent is whole new phase in your life.

I think about my father and how sad it was that he never had grandchildren.

I had the privilege of having two sets of loving grandparents.

I'm not as concerned about me. What's happened to me has been great. I got five great kids. Seventeen grandchildren.

Sometimes it makes me sad that I didn't get to have one family for my entire life.

I happened to the be the fifth child of my family, so everybody was already grown and had left home already.

Meanwhile I married and I adopted three kids who were all from one family and then later I was divorced.

I can't imagine my life without my kids. Raising them has been the greatest joy in my life.

I was born to a single mom and raised by her and my grandparents.