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Gender: female Date of Birth: January 01, 1973 Member Since: September 11, 2007 Last Signed In: November 30, 2008 Blog Views: 8588 Send To A Friend Sign Guestbook Add as a Friend
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Growing Up Together
I think it must be such a different experience to have your baby young versus waiting till you’re more established in life. I had my son at 21. Very young, but old for my family. I was reminiscing last weekend with the family about how very different our lives are now that he’s older. We go out to eat when we want, have two nice cars, own our home and are pretty typical. When our son was a baby however, that was a different story. Getting to go through McDonalds for dinner was a big deal and usually meant digging through the couch and car for change. We rented a tiny apartment and didn’t have any pets. We had one car that my husband usually had to take to work every day (when he wasn’t lucky enough to carpool), which left me at home with a baby and no car. All of these things make our every day life success that much sweeter. I think about those trips to McDonalds whenever we have a nice meal. I think about looking for sales at Target, or buying second hand clothes for the baby when we take him to Macy’s men’s department. I think about fighting over the new shoes I bought the baby (because they cost money) when we take our teen to the Vans store. I think about bagging my own food with the baby on my hip at Pack N' Save (or as I called it back then, Pack N' Slave), when I shop at Nuggett market. Having overcome hardships as a family, and now being able to enjoy what we’ve worked for, makes it that much sweeter. The big down side of having a child at a young age however is college. Words that strike fear into any parents heart. We’ve made it clear to our son that he’d better get great grades, go for a scholarship and we’ll help him out where we can. "Student loans" isn’t a bad word, and there’s nothing wrong with working a bit while you’re in school, but I do wish we had enough put aside to pay 100%. Well, we still have four years! You never know. The picture is my husband and son at the Monterey Bay Aquarium, seven years ago. 2 comments from 2 users
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posted by
ktja
on May 23, 2008 at 09:21 PM
posted by
suprizmom
on Jun 1, 2008 at 06:53 PM
I so love to read your blogs, when I don't get a chance to check in here I always go back and read up on what I have missed.. I want to thank you for sharing your life so openly and oh so true, sense I have been there I can relate to everything that you read, just the other day my daughter 21 and pretty self sufficient said to me "mom do you remember when we thought it was fun to roll the change to get gas in your car" I was a single mom with two small jobs and I would make this a game like treasure hunt but now they see that it was serious,,, and she said with gas prices today she would hate to have to do that again.. hahahah.. we all do what we need to and now that I have two in college I can tell you that things will work out some how they always do..
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So true...what a difference a few years can make. Sounds like you're in a good place right now, but certainly remember the road it took to get there.
Cute pic!