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  • Have a baby at the age of 47 3/4!
  • Love singing nursery rhymes in the car even if the little person isn’t there to join in.
  • Can’t believe how blessed and fortunate you are to have a child even when you’re changing the most explosive nappy, or struggling to stay awake the day after a sleepless night.
  • Are happy to be in on a Friday evening folding small clothes when everyone else is out on the town.  Ellie Stoneley
  • When you find yourself at the chiropractor’s office as often as the elementary school.
  • When your young child points out your increasing gray hair, daily.
  • When your over 50 multi vitamin bottle sits atop the Flinstone’s chewables. Maureen O’Neill Davis 
  • Don’t flinch when a school friend asks your child if you are the grandmother. You just smile! Karen Du Toit
  • You are not interested in adding new people into life’s highly valued and precious time, like when you were younger. Midlife brings a sense of knowing who you are, what you want and who you chose to spend precious time with or to have in your children’s circle of friends.  Monique Faison Ross
  • When you are changing your son’s diaper and having a hot flash at the same time. DeAnna Scott
  • You know you are a midlife mother when your roots are growing out, not because you can’t afford to color, or even because you are too busy, but because you just don’t care anymore! Joely Johnson Mork
  • If your parents are old enough to be in diapers and your kids are young enough to be in diapers.
  • If you are old enough to be the parents of some of the parent’s in your child’s classrooom.
  • If your Centrum Silver is sitting next to a bottle of Flintstone’s chewables.  Michelle Fitzpatrick
  • When you get in to the car with your kids and they tell you where you are going because you can’t remember why you got in to the car in the first place!          Lori Pelikan Strobel
  • Are able to part with material goods with far greater ease than when you were younger. Jordanna Hertz