My sister is younger than me and doesnt have any kids....

[charliecat]

By the time she gets round to having them my two will be well into teenager hood I would think.
She lavishes them with gifts on special occasions, but looks at them with wonder but never plays with them and we only meet up once a year with the kids for fireworks on bonfire night...
Will she realise how little she knows her neices when she has her own? Will she think me odd if would like to know her kids better?

Hows your relationship with your neices/nephews?

when my nan was alive we used to all go to her house on a sunday. we would have a roast at home and then go to my grandparents for sunday tea. it was brilliant as we got to see all our cousins.
when we were younger we were all really close. sadly my nan died when i was 9-10 and things justw erent the same after that.

we didnt go down on a sunday any more and so i drifted further apart from my cousins. its a shame as i dont really know them at all now.

so i try and make the most of when my kids get together with my brothers son. he lives a 45 minute drive away so we dont see each other s much as i would like but still speak a lot over the pc etc.
my other siblings are a lot younger and hopefully ownt be having children for a long time yet so i guess there will be a huge age gap between their and my children so it will be different.
i cant imagine not being close to my family.

My own cousins are 11, 12 and 15 years younger than me.

My brother has a DD a year younger than mine and they get on really well. We haven't seen her much over the years though because her parents split and she lives with her mum.

DHs brothers have children slightly older than ours who we saw quite a lot when they were younger. We have very little to do with them now though.

My youngest sister surprised us all by getting pregnant only months after I had ds (ds being the first grandchild). And then my middle sister surprised us even more because she'd been trying for eight years with her ex. Met new man and within two months she was pregnant. So ds has one cousin a year younger and another cousin two years younger, which is lovely. Feel very lucky because my own cousins were a lot younger and we rarely saw them. Will be lovely for ds to grow up with cousins of his own age. Now baby sister is pregnant again so there will be four of them, 2003, 2004, 2005 and 2007.