A partial email message to my friend:

Natalie's birthday is the 7th. She'll be 38. Barbara, I have a child that is soon to be 38. GAWWW!
Can you believe it??? I think some times I must surely be asleep in the basement on spruce street
and I must have watched some crazy late night movie....because there is no way I can be 56 years
old with a child almost 40 years old. There is no such thing as an internet and I have made up all
the new discovers in my mind. There is no cell phones. There is no HD tv. There is especially
no 3D tv and no way is there an IPad. Fish net hosiery will always be in and bell bottoms will never
go out of style. Turntables are always the best sound and nothing could ever replace a 45 rpm record..
except an album. There is no such thing as capris in women's fashion...it's just a name I made up in
my head for the ever so popular peddle pushers I wear. There is no such thing as video games....
unimaginable except in my nightmare...kids will always jump rope on the sidewalk, always play kick
the can, and always play with dolls that do nothing. Cancer is something also in this crazy dream
I am having. The marlboro man does still exist! He rides the horse gallantly into the sunset smoking
that wonderful aromatic cigarette. The Land OF SkyBlue Waters is still in existence and very few
people go to AA meetings. And by all means, running in the mosquito spray fog behind the truck,
does not cause something called 'cancer' in later years! Now somebody wake me up for school, I
got to wear those new rubber galoshes granny bought me for trudging thru that wintery Chicago
historic snow this year....1967.

Am I awake yet?

I am 36 (will be 37 this year) and my mom is going on 55. I will also be the same age as you when my oldest daughter is 38. Sometimes it seems so odd...the time went by way to fast. All I know is I truly believe you are as young as you feel and today I feel 25 LOL!!!

Heather

I was just a few weeks past my 18th birthday when she was born.

Some people say, it's not good to marry soon and have children at an early age.
I tend to disagree with that, to a point anyway.

There are many benefits to have children when you're young. You don't have the big generation gap.
I think you can relate to your children better, understand more of what they are dealing with and going thru.
Also, altho their are changes all the time, there really isn't that much of a gap. Just like me and my kids.
They remember when there was no flat screen tv's, no hd tv, no 3d tv, no widespread internet use, did
not grow up with computers, played outside, etc. Even tho they did not exist in that 60's era, did not see
live when we put the first man on the moon, the gap is still very small.

And it's fun! When your daughter marries, you're still going to have many years that you can enjoy
going out to eat together, going shopping together, perhaps even having many years to enjoy your
grand children.

Many people that marry and have children later in life, never live long enough to see their grand children.

My oldest grand child is eleven. It's very probable, I will live long enough to see and enjoy my great grand children.

Something to think about, I think, when considering marriage and having children.

PS. I am 56 going on 16

valerie wrote: PS. I am 56 going on 16

May look that you've chosen the right direction
But you'll miss the special experience for 60s, 70s, ... 100

Naw, I'm gonna live forever because I don't want to miss a thang.