We Could Raise the Kid

So I’ll tell you what

We just felt very strongly

That we could raise the kid

We were still

I mean, we were still very young

When we had--

Sorry, I won’t say her name
You don’t want us

Saying the name, right?

Okay

We’d rather not say the name anyway

So that’s--We’re fine with that

Uh, so--

We did not want her giving up the baby

We certainly didn’t want her getting rid of it

And some people said adoption

And we just want to say

We think that’s wonderful

We think adoption is wonderful

But it wasn’t right for us

Or for our daughter

The idea of us having a grandchild out there

In somebody else’s home

With uh, uh, a different set of parents

And grandparents

That was--

That just wasn’t for us

We didn’t, uh, we really didn’t like the idea of that

And, you know, we’re not those kind of people

Who have to give up our kids

We do well

The two of us

We do very well

And we were still young, you know

Not young young

Not as young as we were

When we first had kids

But not old, you know

Not by any means

Hell, I have a friend

Forty-six years old

Just had a kid

Their kid

Not their grandkid

Isn’t that crazy?

I think that’s wild

But, you know

God bless them

That’s what I say

And I wasn’t even that age

At the time

I was younger than that

We both were

And, you know, people who give up their kids

That’s just, we think, you know

--That that’s just so brave

I mean, we admire those people

So much

But we’re just not those people

You know what I mean?

So we made a decision

As a family

That we were going

To raise the baby

Or, you know, help

With raising the baby

We thought once, uh--

Once our daughter

Once she got through school

That she could take on a little bit more

Of the responsibility

And that didn’t seem so bad

Plus, she could watch the baby on break

And on the weekends

She was going to school an hour away, you know?
So we thought she’d be coming home all the time

And uh…

Well…

That’s not exactly how it happened

It, uh, it became a little, um…

It just didn’t--

It just didn’t work out that way

Unfortunately

And it ended up being

A much much bigger

Commitment

And, uh, of course

We don’t regret the choice we made
Because we love our grandson

He’s just--

I mean, the love we feel for him is, uh

It’s just--you know, boundless, but…

But it was definitely, uh

Different

From how we thought it would be

Very different

And, uh, we…

We wish we had known that

That we had had, you know

A better idea, of that

Beforehand

That, uh…

Well, that would have been nice

That would have been nice

To know