9
oldest = 54 youngest = 2 months
Considering the marriage of my mother to my stepfather, and counting his kids from a previous marriage (and their kids, etc.): 24.
Two, if I count my husband.
One, if I don’t.
He counts.
If we count more extended family, then the youngest is so young that she doesn’t even have a name yet. She wasn’t supposed to arrive until the turkey’s done.
Mother, Sister, Spouse-of-Sister, Me, My Spouse, two kids from me and two kids on my sister’s side…
Nine chairs at the Thanksgiving table.
My father is alive but not actively part of the family. He has step-children from his later marriage but they’re not genetically his and I don’t interact with them at all.
- My parents, my brother and I and our spouses, and my niece. On the husband’s side, only 6 and that’s if you count a fiance.
19
From my parents on down:
mother - 1
Self and siblings - 4
Spouses - 4
Children of self and siblings - 23
Total - 32.
Oldest is 63, youngest will be a year right after Thanksgiving.
- 2 parents, 6 kids, 5 spouses, and 3 grandchildren. Ages 57 to brand-spanking-new.
2 parents
1 “dad’s wife” who I already count reluctantly among “family” so I’m sure as hell not including her kids from her previous marriage.
2 siblings, unmarried
Myself and my husband
So we’re a tiny family. A grand total of 7 if we’re being generous. But in reality, my parents are divorced and hate to be in the same room, my dad’s wife is dying and needs full-time care, and both my sister and I moved hundreds of miles away from home. So we’re not all getting together again until it’s time for an important wedding or funeral.
18, ranging in ages from 70 to 1. And we are all going on a cruise together over Christmas.
We did that five years ago. There were 13 of us at the time. Niece was unmarried and had no kids, but my then-GF was considered part of the family.
This year is my parents’ 50th wedding anniversary. None of the grandkids are married yet, but a couple have graduated from college already, and this will probably be the last time that all of us will be able to go on a vacation together just because trying to get everyone’s schedules to work out will be more difficult.
We’re looking forward to it. It’s a 9 day cruise.
Same here! (Five years ago, that is.) Where are you going? Ours was Jacksonville-Key West-Nassau-Jacksonville.
Six.
Me, Mom, Dad, brother, SIL, niece. Ranging from 70 to 1.
Me, my sister, her wife, their eight children, their three grandchildren, my brother, his wife, their three children, my other brother, his wife, his three grandchildren, and my crazy batshit sister…25 total, from 61 to 6.