Mother Tongue part 1
When I was a kid, I thought my mom was old. I know all kids think their parents are old, but I had solid proof! My mom was older than most of my friend's parents, except for those friends who had older siblings. Whenever we ran into my mom's old friends and high school classmates, they would talk about their kids being in college or recently married, and I was still in elementary or middle school. My mom gave birth to me 9 days after her 28th birthday. Many of her friends had children immediately after high school or in their early 20s. I guess my mom wasn't really that old considering that my grandmother gave birth to her (the 5th child) in her 40s. I didn't fully appreciate my mother waiting to have children later than her peers until I was in college. I realized then that I wanted to have fun and do things untethered as much as I could. I decided that I would be married with a kid by 30 with another one coming within a couple of years, and at some point, we would ...