Oh Crap! – Musings of an Unperfect Mommy

My Peeps

February 7, 2018

I was talking with my oldest son about this today – how my people are now those who are aged 50 and up. There was a time after I turned 50 that I had to realize that I didn’t fit in with the younger moms anymore. For one thing, I don’t have little kids and two I’m not young either. I would go to the library during their storytime and look at all the younger moms with babies and toddlers and the realization hit – that’s not me anymore! I cried all the way home.

For a time it was difficult being an older mom with a large family of kids whose ages spanned 17 years apart between the oldest and youngest. When the twins were around 7-10 I felt like I should still belong to the younger mom set, but I was already 47+ years old! Not to mention I’ve been mistaken for their grandma a time or two. So, I felt left out and a misfit.

A few years later, after I turned 50, I was at Walmart shopping and I saw that most of the people up there doing their shopping that early in the morning were older adults. It was like a party atmosphere too with everyone talking and laughing and griping about not being able to find anything. And it didn’t matter if you were strangers – your age was the in. I had found my peeps!

So, sometimes I still feel like I’ve missed out on something, but mostly I don’t. I know who my peeps are, and when I’m around them I feel like a whole person again. And it feels great.

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