<p>Married at 26.
First child at the age of 28; second one at 30.<br>
We’re 45 this year. </p>
<p>August 2010 marks our 20th anniversary, Son’s 18th bday with launch to college, and Daughter’s sweet 16. I can’t decide on a great last-time-we’re-together-vacation or the party of our lifetimes (but small compared to that TV show).</p>
<p>Oh my! H and I are both 52 and girls are 17 and 21(next week). Married 30 years. Yeah…didn’t have D1 for a while. I am at the older end at most school events with D2.</p>
<p>Wife and I are both 54, going on 30. Married 31 years. S, 24 & D 22 next month. The math tells you we waited 7 years to have the first.</p>
<p>Wife was always carded into her mid 30’s, whereas I was almost fully gray at 30. Got many a “look at the geezer with the young thing stares” when we checked into hotels over the years. ;)</p>
<p>violadad…my life mirrors yours pretty much because we have been married for 31 years but did not have kids for nine years. So, now I am 52 and hubby is 54 and kids are 20 and 22. Also, I used to be carded for years but my husband has been gray a long time now (I’m not).</p>
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<p>haha, me too! I was 23 when I had my first, 25 at second and 28 at last. So now I have a senior in college, sophomore and junior in highschool. Do the math for my current age ;)</p>
<p>I will say though that my husband is 6 years older - and I NEVER let him forget it!!! LOL</p>
<p>Husband and I are both 48, college grads and have been married for 25 years this summer. We have 3 sons, 22, 19 and 7!! We ARE fairly young parents for the first two, but our lovely surprise at 40 puts us in the OLD category for him. I thought about this last fall when hauling my son’s stuff up the college dorm stairs wondering how easy it will be do this in 10 years. But I do love being the voice of experience when it comes to giving advice to those 2nd grade parents!</p>
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<p>WOW! Major congrats!!!</p>
<p>OK, OK, through my head runs the song, “Those Oldies But Goodies.” DH is 59 and I am running smack into 58 shortly. People would think we’re in our 40’s. Oldest is 23, youngest is 17. College plus graduate degrees plus careers plus delayed pregnancy = we will need a wheel chair ramp built for us by the time the last college graduation rolls around. 
I know that there are parents of our younger kids who are 15 years younger than we are. But, we know so much more than they do. ;)</p>
<p>I’m nearly 49, and H is 53. Met in grad school, married afterward. Kids are 15 & 17. We were the first amongst our friends to have children, but seem to be about the same age as most of the parents of our kids peers.</p>
<p>I am 47 and hubby is 44. DD is 20 and a college junior.</p>
<p>58 with a 20 y.o. college soph. son. Having him at 38 provided me motivation to stay in good health and active. So far, it has worked.</p>
<p>We are both 51, married 29 years. Oldest is 20, second is 18, both in college. </p>
<p>We thoroughly enjoyed the nine years of marriage before kids, and loved raising our kids even more. Made the transition to an empty nest easier though, I think, since it was easier to envision life as a couple. </p>
<p>By the way, I’ve been almost completely gray for at least 15 years…</p>
<p>I’m 56 with a 24 year old married grad student and a 22 year old college junior. H is about to turn 64. (I run races so age isn’t much of a secret in my life- I was happy to turn 55 and move into an easier age group!)</p>
<p>I was 39 when d started at college 5 years ago and I am now 53. (h is 55)</p>
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<p>I agree that having a life as a couple before the kids arrive may help in this regard, but having a life as a couple WHILE you are are parenting is essential to having “a couple” once the nest is empty.</p>
<p>musicamusica–didn’t Jack Benny originate that saying?</p>
<p>07dad----we ARE old. (oh RODCHESTEr…)</p>
<p>I proudly admit that I am “old” and getting older every day. Since you can’t grow younger (except in the movies), I perfer that to the other option.</p>
<p>MomofWildChild, that’s what my H says - his trophies are all from category move-up years.</p>
<p>H is 52; I’m 48. 20-year-old college junior is our oldest - and, um, the almost-seven-year old is our youngest. (Class of 2020 thread, coming up soon! Paris79, see you there?)</p>
<p>I like to think I’m the wiser side not older side.
I have a 18 years old in college and I’m not much older than Obama.
However, I do feel sorry for my brother, he would definitely fit into this category, the older part. He and his wife have an oops(as in oops, we forgot to have a girl so we go shopping with). He will be getting his first social security check when she enters college.</p>
<p>Another “old broad with young kids” here. I didn’t marry until after grad school and was already in practice. Had my kids at 33 and 37. We are 51 and 55 (I am the cradle-robber 
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