7 Comments
Leave a Comment
Share:
It seems like everything comes and goes in waves. A few years ago, all my friends were getting married. I have never been to so many bridal showers, couples showers, engagement parties, and finally weddings.
Now all my friends are having babies. Rarely a week goes by that I don’t get an announcement about a birth, a baby shower, or a new pregnancy.
Yes, even one of our own JQs has joined the bandwagon. Shirley, I’m talking to you!
Honestly, a few months ago, I counted and realized that I knew 17 people who were pregnant. Since then most have had their babies, but now different people are pregnant or about to have babies.
Still, I can’t complain. It’s better than being in a season like that of my grandparents. While I go to baby showers, they go to funerals. As much as I dislike baby showers, I have a feeling that they are better than funerals.
My parents are in a season where everyone is retiring. This seems like it would be fun except that retired people usually end up moving to the “home of their dreams,” so my parents have lost quite a few friends. They’re moving, too, and can’t complain.
What about you? Are you in any particular season of life?
Filed in: Jaunty Post
Jul 12th
2007
7:55 am
AndreaW Said:
I know exactly what you mean, Shana. I’ve gone through the seasons you mentioned and am now going through “soccer mom season” (for lack of a better term). I know people through my son’s school and they’re always busy with their kids and such. This season should last me a while. LOL
-
Jul 12th
2007
8:56 am
brownone Said:
Yeah…I agree with Andrea…I’m going through the “school season”. Most of us have kids already so we’re busy trying to get them into gifted programs (waiting with fingers crossed and eyes tightly shut!), through doctor appointments (ugh..I HATE shot day!), and refereeing over who was looking at who/who was touching who…
As for my mom, she’s going through the stages of accepting that she is getting older. I think it’s a big change going from 50 to 60 and she told me she notices that she is aging faster now. It’s sad because she says on the inside she still feels like thirty but when she looks at herself in the mirror she sees the sagging and wrinkling that has just begun. (This scares me mostly)
-
Jul 12th
2007
9:41 am
Karen H in NC Said:
Karen’s Prayer:
“Dear God, Please keep me alive long enough to finish reading all the books in my TBR pile.”
At 63, I’m in my ‘retirement season’ now and I have plenty of time to plow through all those books.
My mother died on 12-26-93 at the age of 75. When she was 65, I told her I didn’t think she would ever be ‘a little old lady’. And she really wasn’t until she hit 70 and I noticed she aged a lot after that. I don’t smoke anymore (I quit in ’94); follow a low-fat diet, have my high blood pressure under control and try to exersize regularly. These are all things my mom didn’t do so I am hopeful that my life will last longer than hers and I won’t really be a ‘little old lady’ until I’m 80. As long as I can continue doing and living as I do now, a few sags and wrinkles (ok, ok…a lot!! LOL) won’t bother me. I have earned every one of them, including all my grey hairs.
The old saying “you’re as young as you feel” is very true. I don’t feel 63 and my kids say I don’t act 63. I guess that counts for something.
-
Jul 12th
2007
11:17 am
Shana Said:
So I have soccer mom season to look forward to
My grandmother says the same thing about aging. She says she doesn’t feel 88. When she looks in the mirror, she thinks, who is that old lady?
-
Jul 12th
2007
2:22 pm
catslady Said:
I married young and had kids late and it seems like I was always out of sync with friends and family.
-
Jul 12th
2007
2:40 pm
Haven Rich Said:
I know that Season! I’m curious, is one of those 17 including one Mrs. Sophie Jordan? She is just too cute!
Ok, time to go back to the conference! I’ll check in soon.
-
Jul 12th
2007
3:05 pm
Shana Said:
Um, you’ll have to get Sophie to confirm that. My lips are sealed
-