Grandma Henke

My son and daughter in law just found out their expected baby is a girl. This will be their fifth … five girls! And they are as excited for this sweet little girl as they were for their first … we all are.

I couldn’t help but think of the future. His house will be a hormone factory! His oldest is going to be eleven soon so they will have a good twenty years of multiple female carriers. Holy cow. He must have prayed for patience and now he’ll have the opportunity to learn it well! It will take patience and a machete to cut through the hormones of six women in one house!

I had five children … two girls and three boys. Boys are bigger and make a lot more deep noises … and different kinds of messes than girls. They and their big friends take up a lot of space with just their bodies and it takes a lot of food to fill them up. Girls are noisy too with all their friends but it is a different kind of noise … and they take up a lot of room with their accessories and clothes. And they want a lot of clothes and a lot of friends and a lot of accessories. They practice dance routines and gymnastics all over the house … boys play foot ball and basketball outside. Large families are fun … no matter what the mix.

It’s a good thing he has a big home and enough bathrooms to accommodate six females. And it is a good thing they work as a team to raise their children. They are good parents and this new little girl, whose middle name is going to be Joy, is coming to a happy family who are very excited to meet her.

We will have seventeen grandchildren … and only four of them are boys. Look out Curtis, Steele, Lincoln, and Kai! They have you outnumbered four to one!