<p>My siblings are 16, 14, 12 and 10 years older than I am. Same parents, but big ooops!</p>
<p>Both of my parent’s family is the same, zooser. My mom has siblings and 22 and 20 years older than she is, and my dad’s brother is 17 years older than he is. It creates some interesting family lines. My mother’s niece is actually two weeks older than she is! </p>
<p>I guess I’m an oddity around here. I had my daughter while I was in college, so I’ll be in my mid-thirties she leaves for college.</p>
<p>jym626 said “(I am the cradle-robber )”</p>
<p>Me too! (almost 50 and H almost 47…snicker-snicker)</p>
<p>D is 19; we’ve been married 18… how about THAT math? …but together for 6 years before that</p>
<p>I’m 60 and husband is 54. Son is college freshman. Having a child later than many has kept me young, and in no way do I feel (or look, I think) any older than the parents of my son’s peers. Being older has made me a much more secure, relaxed mother than I might have been 20 years earlier.</p>
<p>I’m 47 and H is 50. Ds are 18 and 16. I know many parents both younger and older than we are.</p>
<p>I’m 50 and H is 49 (almost 50). D is 26 and S is 23. We’ve been married 26 years. As the saying goes…do the math ;).</p>
<p>I’m 48 (going on 60!) and DH is 47; DD age 23, done graduated; DS, age 19 is college soph. We were youngish parents for college-educated, and actually DH finished up undergrad after DD was born. We both got grad degrees when the kids were little. DH was 23 when we married, and 24 when DD was born. He was/is skinny and looked younger than his age; some people thought he was the teenage babysitter, not the daddy! :)</p>
<p>For those of you in step/blended families with grands and kids the same age, this isn’t a new problem. My mom told her OB that she “had” to have my sister on time because her mom had to get back to California soon. Reason, Grandma was pregnant also, and due in a few months.</p>
<p>Pugmadkate, I think you take the prize so far for being the youngest. You’re just a baby, really!</p>
<p>I’m 53, and so is my ex. People tell me, on good days, that I could pass for being in my early to mid 40’s – although I did notice the beginnings of a crow’s foot or two recently! I’m a lawyer; my ex has a masters. We met when we were 31, and got married nine months later at 32. (Given how it turned out, that was way too fast, but it’s too late now! I was ill through most of my 20’s with Crohn’s Disease, and had no social life to speak of – whatever energy I had, I spent at my job – so I guess I was in kind of a hurry once I had a couple of operations and started feeling better for quite some time, and found someone who seemed like the right person.) Our son was born three years later. So he’s 18 now. We were about average in age compared to the other parents of kids in his high school class, at a small public high school in the North Jersey suburbs.</p>
<p>Being 53 with a 12 yr old, some of the parents of her friends are SO much younger than I am…they have mothers my sister’s age! Oh well, keeps me young, I guess…</p>
<p>DH is 44 and I’m almost-43 with a son who is about to turn 18 and a 15 y.o. daughter.
(and married 25 years this summer!)</p>
<p>Maybe we can say that most of us are just great “planners”, with our youngest kids finishing college just when we are ready to retire.</p>
<p>When S1 started preschool, I remarked to my H how young the other mothers looked. Took a while until I figured out that they were all nannies. We were the only ones who didn’t have one. The mothers were 40-ish, working full-time.</p>
<p>I’m 46, with a high school senior & junior. The parents of my girls’ friends seem to be around the same age.</p>
<p>DH just turned 55, I’m 48. Kids are 17, 19, and 21.
But I FEEL really old…</p>
<p>Kids,17 and 20, parents 55 and 57</p>
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Me too! And they say you are as old as you feel, so that makes me…old. I’m fairly slim, I don’t die my hair and people say that I look fairly young for my age - but I feel old! I have friends my age (48) with 5 and 6 year-olds, but I feel like a different generation from them because we are EMPTY NESTERS. My daughter is as old as DH was when we got MARRIED. So, that means I’m old. :eek: ;)</p>
<p>anxiousmom,
No, you just planned to be able to travel and do stuff after your kid was grown! Enjoy - you are not any older than the parents of the kindergarten set, just farther down the road toward independence.<br>
Good grief, someone 49 with a 5 year old will be 73 when that kid finishes college. Would you trade places with them?</p>
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<p>Bugmom, sounds like we’re from the same generation!</p>
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<p>no, they will be 66. 44 when kid is born+22 years</p>
<p>I realize based on what people here have posted that alot of cc’ers have had kids in their late thirties and early forties. I admire your spunk.</p>
<p>I have a coworker who is 40 and expecting her first child soon. I wish her well. I will be 50 when my son graduates college. I’m glad I had him when I did because, for ME, I would not want to be dealing with teenage things in my 50’s and 60’s. But that is why there is chocolate and vanilla, to each their own :-)</p>