Archive for the ‘Aging’ Category
Birthdays Come and Go by Michele Talamo (a Later Mom)
February 24th, 2015
My daughter and I are turning 5 and 45 this year! Birthdays come around for everyone all the time, right?! For me as an older mom, it has so much more meaning. As my daughter ages and reaches milestones, so do I! It's a time that makes me stop and ...
Would I Recommend Becoming a Later Mom By: Lori Loesch
October 16th, 2014
Would I recommend becoming a later mom? When I had Faith I was 42 years old. My son was 11 and my husband was 49 years old. We were in the peak of our lives. It was 2004, the home building industry was booming. We were making more money than ...
Growing Old Gracefully BY: Lori Loesch
June 5th, 2014
I would like to grow old gracefully. I don't want to be a grouchy old woman, complaining, daily, hourly, about, everything. I want to be graceful, have grace...is that the word I want to use? Grace? Could it be, Finesse? Maybe Poise? They all mean the same, so, yes, this ...
A Lesson in Humility: Age Sometimes Doesn’t Matter by Vicky Dal Molin
February 18th, 2014
“Whoever loves becomes humble. Those who love have, so to speak, pawned a part of their narcissism.” Freud said that. Smart guy…. And something I’ve learnt to have at least some element of truth to it. When I was pregnant with my son I joined a forum for pregnant woman who’s babies ...
You Sure Waited a Long Time to Get Started by Melissa Swedoski
June 18th, 2013
It's a tricky business, this later motherhood life. On the one hand, you feel so supremely blessed to have this child(ren) who you can love, hug, snuggle, cuddle, nourish, teach, inspire, support and laugh with, when you perhaps thought you never would. But then there's the trick of time. You feel ...
GUEST BLOG POST: One Mom, Two Moms, Young Moms, Blue Moms by Tracy Beckerman, author, Lost in Suburbia
April 5th, 2013
[caption id="attachment_11028" align="alignleft" width="200" caption="Photo credit: Chris Owyoung"][/caption]When you’re a mom, you don’t really think about what demographic you fall into until you suddenly find yourself surrounded by younger moms. That moment came for me during my youngest child’s last year of grade school. To avoid the usual minivan congestion, I ...
First-time Mom at Age 50 and Beyond – by Margaret Hart
September 4th, 2012
I visited a good friend recently who I have known for going on 20 years. We first met when we were both fresh out of college, single, and living and working in New York City. In those days, we were both focused on our careers and not thinking seriously about ...
Age Gap Kid Discrimination by Sharon O’Donnell
August 4th, 2012
There's a nine-year difference in age between my oldest son and youngest son, and a six-year gap between my middle and youngest. This means that we have seen both the disadvantages and advantages of the 'age gap' between siblings. One disadvantage I never expected popped up last week when I ...
I Want To Be An Old Woman by Maureen Eich VanWalleghan
July 16th, 2011
Do you ever wake up and just feel old? Could be hormones, or I’m just tired or who knows what, but I think it’s just the waning of my youth seeping ever so slowly out of me. Aging is mostly attitude, right? If I feel young, I am young. Maybe... In ...
