The small family thread

[227bhp]

The small thread for small families.
Do you have a small family, if so just how small? Is there genuinely anyone with just themselves?

After this years death toll I was having a reckon up, I have:

One Mother who doesn't really care much, but we manage to get along just about.
A brother who is a dick and we don't speak.
An Aunt who has read the Daily Mail all her life.
A step uncle (is there such a thing?) Who I see maybe once or twice every 20yrs or so, mainly at funerals.
Two cousins I see unplanned now and again
One Nephew who I see about once every 7yrs

I think that is it: 8 of us all in all.

Edited by 227bhp on Tuesday 13th December 10:04

[QuartzDad]

Wife has Mum, Dad, Sister, Nephew, Niece. I have 22 cousins :-)

[Cold]

My parents are still alive and I have two sisters. Haven't seen any of them for about ten years+. Just me and my grown up daughter and I hope she'll move out soon.

[Benni]

Sister in same town
Great - Aunt (?) sister of grandmother with 2 kids in another town.
4 all in all.
If no accidents or diseases happen I will close our family branch.

[drainbrain]

One wife + m-i-l
One son
2x cousins
One b-i-l& s-i-l
one nephew
one niece


Cousins 5 kids if they count.

End

Edited by drainbrain on Tuesday 13th December 00:31

[KarlMac]

I cut ties with my parents at 18, so now my family consists of my wife, daughter, sister in law and a brother. I do have 3 sisters and another brother but haven't seen them in years.

[northwest monkey]

I'd say I have a fairly small family. I haven't seen parents for about 9 years, 2 brothers a bit longer. Grandparents are now dead, I have some Uncles / Aunts I haven't seen since I was a kid. I have my Mrs & son and MiL - she's got a couple of Uncles and an Aunt and that's about it.

So for what I'd consider "family" rather than people I can't help being related to, there's about 3 immediate and 3 other.

Works for me

[227bhp]

Benni said:

Sister in same town
Great - Aunt (?) sister of grandmother with 2 kids in another town.
4 all in all.
If no accidents or diseases happen I will close our family branch.

So including you: 5.
Wow, anyone less than 5?

Cuts down on the amount of presents and cards to buy I guess.

[NiceCupOfTea]

Parents, Brother, Wife, Daughter, MIL.

So 7 including me. Never really thought about it, but parents both only children, as is my wife.

[R E S T E C P]

In a radius of 2,500 miles it used to be just me & my parents.

Now I have a wife and son.

Wife's family is massive - it took me years to get to grips with how it all works. Even after 10 years I sometimes have to ask for a reminder of how some cousins/aunts/uncles are related.

[AndySheff]

An aunt.
2 cousins.
Brother.
Daughter.

[FLGirl]

227bhp said:

So including you: 5.
Wow, anyone less than 5?

Cuts down on the amount of presents and cards to buy I guess.

Me! Two of us - me and mum

[ShakeyJake188]

5 of us here.

Me, Mum, Sister, Grandad, Uncle.

[hacksaw]

I have a wife and 2 children. Don't speak to parents, the one surviving (I think, no one told me she is dead) grandparent or only brother. I have one uncle who remarried and has a small family through this marriage.
So those I consider to be 'my' family is the four of us, plus an uncle. Additional to that are a few more on the wife's side, including her parents, her brother and his family and a scattering of Aunts, uncles and cousins.

[Cold]

227bhp said:

So including you: 5.
Wow, anyone less than 5?

Cuts down on the amount of presents and cards to buy I guess.

Um, yes. One.

Cold said:

My parents are still alive and I have two sisters. Haven't seen any of them for about ten years+. Just me and my grown up daughter and I hope she'll move out soon.

[Xtriple129]

My son.
Me.
Basset hound.
Labrador.

That's it.

[kiethton]

For me it's pretty small - 6 including myself, 5 excluding me! - this is all known blood relatives too!

Mum & Dad, one Aunt and 2 brothers. No grandparents remain

Mum is an only child and my Aunt has no kids, neither do I or my two younger brothers....

Fairly small I guess!

Edited by kiethton on Tuesday 13th December 13:31

[boyse7en]

Mum, Dad,
Me and my my Sister.
My two kids, my niece and nephew

So 8 of us.

That's it. No aunts, uncles, cousins, grandparents...

[MockingJay]

Mines pretty small.

I only see my Mum, sister & Gran, at Christmas I see my Aunt & Uncle.

On the flip side my girlfriend has a huge family.

[Fast Bug]

227bhp said:

So including you: 5.
Wow, anyone less than 5?

Cuts down on the amount of presents and cards to buy I guess.

Before I met my other half it was me, Mum and my Dad that I haven't seen in over 10 years. Oh and my Uncle in Canada who I met for a weekend when I was 7

Now I add my wife, 2 kids. Her parents, both her Nans, her 2 brothers and their wives (both have 3 girls), her sister and partner and their son. Family get togethers take a while to get over when I'm Uncle Fast Bug the climbing frame and have 9 kids hanging off me