My son was Peter Pan. He did not want to grow up and saw no reason not to live with me for the rest of his life. Then he meet the girl and his life has never been the same. In 3 yrs he has gotten married, bought a house, and is expecting a baby at the ripe old age of 40(his first). All this grown up stuff scares the crap out of him.
Number 1 daughter,on the other hand,had Grandson # 1 at 19 and is now the cool Mom. She is younger than most of his friends parents so she knows all about the cool stuff....computers, video games, the WII.
When did our kids become grown ups? When did we become grown ups? We still expected Mother to pay for lunch well into our 30"s. When did we start paying our own way?
It seems so strange for "the kids" to pick up the tab at dinner. Wait...son does not do that...well sometimes he does. Not as much as daughter!!!!
"The kids" are in thier 40's and early 30's.....Grandson # 1 is a teenager...is daughter still a kid....YES..besides she is my baby....
2 comments:
Oh.My.Heck. I could have written the very same thing... Daughter #1 had grandson at 18 - Son #2 just got married (he's 33) after living with until he was 27 - and the whole "picking up the tab thing" uh.. yeah - that's them to a "T".
How funny - we think our lives are soo much different than everyone's - and it's really not..
Good to read ya tonight!
Colleen
Ha! You know my life so well! Son #1 still living at home at 26, struggling to grow up...Daughter #2, a mom at 16, married and on her own at 17, now 23 with 3 kids and 4 stepkids, her own business and home.
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