Grandparents Raising Children Support Group
This community is dedicated to grandparents who are the primary caregivers of their grandchildren. In cases where the parents are not willing or able to provide adequate care for their children, grandparents may take on the role of primary caregivers. Join the support group to find support, share your experience, and get advice from other members.
August 4, 2022, our daughter gave birth to a baby girl. Three hours later she passed due to delivery complications. A few months later, our son-in-law lost the rental home and all his worldly possessions during hurracaine Ian in Florida. Both baby and father now live with my husband (76 years old) and myself, in a small condo. I am looking to connect with this group for advise on day-to-day challenges and to connect with people who understand our new normal.
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I was listening to George Birge radio on Pandora in my car yesterday. It sounded good but the lyrics are so limited with country music. I just couldn't hear another song about whiskey. Now I'm listening to Tori Amos. She is my female Elton John. I love their lyrics!
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When i was in the ER February 16th 2025, i was being admitted to ICU where i was for 3 weeks, then had to relearn to walk for 3 weeks in another hospital rehab floor, the nurse told me something that made me feel for over 18 months now that i was finally *safe*. She told me that the guy who raped and beat me 21 years ago now almost 20 years at that time, was in prison as of a month before that...
my 3 gk's, currently ages 9, 7 and 4, had been living with us in protective custody for a bit more than a month when my son and his wife were killed in a traffic accident in september, 2019. just in time to process the shock in coronaville. ouchus maximus.
we are 3.5 years into the adventure and still looking for that new normal. we have stabilized far enough that some days i think we have found it, but? ? ? what a long, strange trip its been. i'm not sure i'd know normal if it bit me on the nose. the only "normal" i really believe in is normal-for-me and this aint't it.
i, too, could use someone to talk to. i keep hearing that grandfamilies are the fastest growing trend in the industrial world, but we don't seem to be finding one another. well. . . i, for one, don't have much time for the looking. 3 kids sure can keep you hopping.
steadying support for that transition to having the baby around. my days are still quite exhausting, but nothing like they were during that early transition from retired life to this second parenting career.