how old are you?

[Vanquisher]

28, but I feel much older.

32, 33 next month.

32, 63 in about three weeks.

[Flynn]

34 - good lord I'm OLD!

[Vishenka69]

Gosh, I can't believe how young most of you had your kids. I still don't feel old/mature enough to even contemplate them. Although looking at my parents, it pays off to be done early on, they were still in early 40s when I moved out.

[Ames]

27

Gosh, I can't believe how young most of you had your kids. I still don't feel old/mature enough to even contemplate them.

I agree, how do you guys do it!

26

[Michele]

25

27

[spotty_dog]

25

Yay! No blushes, now! You are a highly accomplished 25, hot damn! I'm the one who's now...

[Liz2254]

27... and I can't imagine being responsible for the care of someone else right now when I can barely manage having milk in the house that isn't 2 weeks past it's freshness date let alone vegetable intake for myself.

25

Just turned 25 this fall myself.

[mommax3]

Gosh, I can't believe how young most of you had your kids. I still don't feel old/mature enough to even contemplate them.

It is so interesting to hear different perspectives on this. I had my first baby at age 26, and at the time, I thought I was a little on the *old* side to be having my first! I had been out of college and working for five years, and many of my friends had already had babies. I don't feel that way now, but at the time, I really did.

Although looking at my parents, it pays off to be done early on, they were still in early 40s when I moved out.

That was the plan DH and I started out with early on, but our kids are spread out just enough that I will be almost 39 when my youngest starts kindergarten, the same year my oldest starts 7th grade. When they graduate from high school, I will be 44, 47, and <gulp> 51! We will only have two in college at the same time for one year, though.

Of the parents I encounter at my kids' school, DH and I are almost always the youngest parents in my oldest son's class, the youngest about half the time in middle son's class, and we are almost always OLDER than most of the other parents in my youngest's class. So, I guess all in all, we are pretty average.

Sally

[JaneDoe]

30

[DCJenn]

39 (just turned in November)

I can't imagine doing the marriage/kid thing in any order other than the way we did. Did we perhaps let go of our "fertile" years? Maybe, but there's no way the two of us could have come up with a kid as cute and smart as the one we have!

I got to do things by myself that I believe help me through this crazy medical lifestyle. (like I owned my own home, my own car, my own credit cards and my own student loans well before I got saddled with the Giant Debt Maker) I also went to grad school (twice but only finished once) and was able to travel a lot to visit friends. I was also married once before to the Non-Debt Maker But Most Boring Man in the World. (There are tradeoffs...)

So, in short, for those of you who are amazed at those who started young (as I am- I KNOW I couldn't have done it), think of me as your inspiration to wait and play for awhile. (Those $700 dinners (for 4) are awfully fun if you can afford it!...) Of course, there's my Partner in Politics Luanne who isn't much older than I am and hers are done and out of the house. A nice thought when I contemplate the amount of diapers I face in my future.

Jenn