Dr. Mimi - The Snap Diva Sings

Bending Time

This weekend is my 30th year high school reunion. Hot flashes are starting with a vengence.

Time has a way of creeping up and smacking me upside my head. I have doing a bit of pining about days gone by. I find myself turning to old school and R and B stations for music I can actually understand. I roll my eyes when I open my patient's mouths and see tongue piercing (and we won't even mention my response to some other more delicate body piercings). I have never gotten those baggy pants combined with those belly showing tops.

Dang it, I'm middle aged and entering, gasp, menopause! The only catch is that instead of seeing my kid off to college, my son is just entering the second grade. I have to stay on the good foot to keep up with him. I look about 10 years younger than my chronological age. Some days however I feel about 10 years older. I graduated from high school at 16 (as with most of my classmates), so y'all can do the math.

So much of my time is doing all the things most single working mommas have to do. It is a full time job just doing the mom part let alone filling in on daddy duties and working a profession where part time work means 40 hours a week (I don't work part time).

Yea, it sounds like I am whining but actually I am very grateful. It's amazing what seeing a large orange semi truck driving over the front end of your car can do for one's attitude. Just another attention getter that I don't have to solve all the world's problems, be the perfect mom or have my son in multiple after school activities.

So the last week or so, I have had the chance to take a bit of a breather. Enough time to stop and enjoy the flowers in my garden, take my dog on a real walk, make volcanoes with my son (I'm helping him find his inner geek).

Enjoying each day. Not missing Disco or polyester (much).

Posted by drmimi at June 2, 2004 04:34 PM