Pretend vs. 2.0

katib77 · January 2011

I enjoyed btaylor19's post below asking what you'd be doing on a random tuesday in the summer when you were seven years old. So I thought I'd start one with a twist.

Pretend it's a winter Friday night Jan. 1995. How old are you & what are you most likely doing? ** and for a twist; at that point in your life when (if) did you think you were going to have children?

katib77 · January 2011

I had just turned 17 and would most likely be visiting my friends that played pep band at the high school basket ball games. Afterwards we'd go to this diner called 'Round the Clock and drink coffee and gossip about guys (this is if it wasn't a week with a dance after the game).

At that age I thought I'd be married by 24 and kids by 28.

In reality it took until I was 31 to get married. 33 and been TTC #1 for 18 months.

punkymama · January 2011

katib77:

I enjoyed btaylor19's post below asking what you'd be doing on a random tuesday in the summer when you were seven years old. So I thought I'd start one with a twist.

Pretend it's a winter Friday night Jan. 1995. How old are you & what are you most likely doing? ** and for a twist; at that point in your life when (if) did you think you were going to have children?

I'd be 17 and at my best friend's house or she'd be at mine and we'd be watching tv and talking about boys. Back then, I'd think I'd get married at 25 and have my 2 kids before 30.

I was quite wrong. Married at 32 and trying for #1

neko621 · January 2011

In 1995, I was 13 years old and was probably over a friends house (slumber parties were pretty big for my friends and I around this time) watching scary movies, playing with a ouija board, making prank phone calls, or painting our nails. .....ohhh the early teenage years.....

Having a baby was nowhere in my realm of thinking at 13. But if I was asked, I'm sure I would have thought I would have had them before 28! (13 year old self would have said, "28 is soooo old!")

bebepi · January 2011

I'm 9 years old and watching Blank Check with my best friend. We're eating pizza of course. I'm pretty sure I planned to be married at 21 and have kids at 23.

cutebride73 · January 2011

I was 21 years old and a senior in college. I was also a single mom to my DD who was 4 years old then. If I had DD for the weekend (she was with her dad every other weekend) we would be at home, most likely. Maybe watching TV. Snuggling before bed.

If my DD was with her dad for the weekend, I would have probably been with my long-term boyfriend at the time, hanging out, maybe at his parents house watching a movie.

I was not your typical 21 year old - not much partying for me - lol.

btaylor19 · January 2011

I would have been 14. I was probably in my basement with a few friends playing Life or Trivial Pursuit. At that point my plan was to get married out of high school and have 8 kids by the time I was 30. I was a bit of a dreamer.

rous27 · January 2011

I was 11 and prob. sitting in my bff's bedroom listening to music and doing something crafty (like making stuff with lots of glitter and jewels).

I wanted twins and thought I would be around 22 when I would have kids. My bff then informed me twins had to run in the family. I was sad, but later found out that in fact they do run in my family! I am now 26 and waiting for my first baby. Maybe I will be right on the twin thing.

SeptemberBride'08 · January 2011

I would have been 14 and in 8th grade.

So.....I might have been at a dance that was held Friday nights, babysitting or at my bff's house.

magnolia_femme · January 2011

I was 12, probably hanging out with my two best friendds...watching movies and eating junk food.

I thought I'd be married by 25 with kids that same year....I did get married at 25, but I'm 27 now and still waiting on the kids...

missjul61 · January 2011

I would have been 15, probably sneaking the cordless phone to chat all night w/ one of my friends. At that point in life, I thought I would have kids by 28, which seemed like an eternity away.