Oh BuffaloGal. This is my fear. My family has shrunk so small. I have 2 brothers. One has two children who are 26 and 30. The 26 yo has a daughter but we talk only a couple times a year. They aren't intrested in family. My other brother is near in age and very close with me but he has no wife or children. DD will have no cousins, no extended family for the holidays. DH does have a large and loving family that would embrace dd and I both, but they all live overseas. DH travelled here and chose to make his life here. You have voiced the terror of my soul.
But a new child would be so far apart in age. 10 years. And dd has often said that she hopes we never have another baby. I know she does not understand the future, but right now, she knows that she doesn't want to share the attention she does get. But, I cry out to the Lord wondering what her Christmases will look like when her Poppa and Nana are gone from us and we sit alone around our tree.