When I was in my twenties, I had more than one “older” mom tell me, “Being an older mom keeps you young.” I thought of this today when I saw a post on Threads about Rihanna being pregnant with her third baby at 37 years old. It was reminding women in their thirties that it’s […]
older moms
Being the older mom. I’m okay with it.
I have always been the “older” mom. I gave birth to Number 3 when I was thirty-five. Number 4 the day before my thirty-seventh birthday. Number 5 three months before I turned forty. Number 6 three months before I turned forty-one. And Number 7 when I was forty-two. And now, at forty-six, I am definitely […]
Thirty-five is when you finally get your head together and your body starts falling apart. ~ Caryn Leschen
My parents were in the same kindergarten class. Can you imagine? They started dating when they were 14, and they were married by 20. You don’t see that happen too often anymore. Or ever. So when they were 24, I entered the picture. When I was a freshman in college, my parents were 41. The […]