I’m in my mid thirties and I feel like I’m still waiting to become a grown up.
The main reason is that most of the time, I don’t know what the hell I’m doing.
With each year that passes, I’m starting to realize that I can’t be the only adult who feels this way.
I remember my mom being my age and I used to think she had it all figured out.
I don’t have most things figured out, especially motherhood.
When I brought my daughter home from the hospital, I thought all the answers would fly into my brain and I would transform into mom of the year overnight.
That didn’t happen.
When it comes to my nearly 4 year-old, most of the time I feel like I’m just “playing house” because I never expected to be so clueless this many years in.
I just don’t feel my age.
I like to stay up late and I still sometimes use “totally” and “awesome” in the same sentence. Me? A grown up? Nah.
I look at my daughter and think she knows much more than I do already. Then I start thinking she’d be better off being raised by wolves.
Okay, maybe not but you get what I mean.
I have a house, a wonderful family, a job, bills to pay, and two cats. I’m just waiting to catch up to my age.
Do you feel like a grown up or do you feel like you’re sometimes pretending too?
I feel like a split personality- I usually feel like a mom when I’m with my son (though the adjective in front of ‘mom’ can range from ‘good’ to ‘horrific’ on any given day), but when it’s just me, I feel like I’m exactly the same age I was when I graduated from college…almost 17 years ago.
I definitely don’t feel like a grown up. I feel like most days I am playing house. When people call me a mom, I still kind of look at them like they are crazy. Sometimes I forget I am 33 because most days I still feel like a 24 year old who is house sitting.
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Sometimes “Totally awesome” IS the sentence.
But yeah, I’m 100% with you. I’m borderline incapable of being a parent. If it weren’t for my wife, my son and I would likely be dead
. But seriously, my maternal grandparents had 12 kids (paternals only had 6 – amatuers). How? It must have been inbuilt back then to have kids. Now the TV and DVD player carry a lot of responsibility.
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Same.
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I totally get that. I’m 35 and due to give birth any day now. I’m still amazed that i’m a grown up and constantly wonder how the hell i got past 17?! I still feel like i’m pretending at this and some one will come up and tell me they have found out….And now I get to be a mum?! And they want me to take this baby home and keep it alive and stuff? Holy crap!
Grown up? Yeah, no. Not happening. I just fake the rest so they don’t take my kids away..
Yeah, I’m totally faking it. Can someone please explain my 401k to me?
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