I am starting to feel old....

when i was my daughters age... i always thought 40 was old... i think it is all a matter of perspective....  now that i am past what i thought was old so many years ago...  i don't know what to think....

i guess what brought all this on, is that school starts for my children on monday...  one 1/2way through high school and one just entering middle school...   i mean... deep down inside i know i am not old yet... but on the external...  things just pop out of nowhere and remind me that i am old....  (not old as in ancient, more like old as in mature) (or i should be mature...)  i work at a grocery store...  we sell all sorts of alcohol there..(yeah i know.... what's the point...)  well  on a daily basis... i have to 'card' kids, (yes... i can call them kids) who were born the year i graduated from high school and forward...   that graduation took place almost 25 years ago...  makes me feel old...

i know i am rambling... but isn't that what this whole site is for...

so with a daughter competing with me as to the soonest graduation date... (hers from high school, mine from university) and a son just beginning the 'wonderful journey through puberty'  ( read with heavy sarcasm)  i am feeling like i should be more mature than i am... 

yeah... i have a job, but no career  (thus the belated college education)  i pay bills... i have a mortgage and car payments and student loans...  the list that classifies me as an adult goes on and on... why is it that i don't feel like one....?????????

a very good friend ...  miss birdchik... once said with awe in her voice... "i can't believe it ... you're somebody's mom..."

and there you have it..

just my thoughts..

toodle-pip

wackymom