31 May 2012

Last week on a day we were feeling pretty put together, we managed to get the family out of the house and down to one of the older kids' favorite parks.  There were a couple of other moms with the kids mostly in the 18 month to 3 year old range and one mother with her six year old son.  Seeing that we had similarly aged children, this mother struck up a conversation with us.  Over the course of the conversation, we discovered that she also had three kids and her husband had briefly done the stay at home dad thing like Mr. Brown. Struck by the similarities, she asked, "You guys must have waited to have kids too, right?"  I wasn't sure what to say, but Mr Brown (being agreeable) says, "Yes, we did," which kind of surprised me because we didn't really wait to have kids. This friendly mom then tells us how she had her first at 36, second at 41 and third at 46.   She thought we were 50 - I guess feeling put together with a newborn must include looking 20 years older.