I know I've written before on the realizations of Lance and Vicki's pregnancy that are coming in waves with the storyline of Georgie's teen pregnancy on Young Sheldon, but today's realization actually came from Match Game.
During contestant introductions, a women looking maybe in her 40s said she was a grandmother, and everyone on the show reacted that she was so young to be a grandmother. I said to Doug that of course she could have had her kids young then her kid had one young.
Then, I stopped... and did the math.
If Mom had me around age 35, and Tim was born when I was 10 years old...Mom was 44/45 years old when we were going through everything with Lance and Vicki's pregnancy. That information completely shocked Doug and me.
Mom wasn't much older than me now, and she and Dad were just younger than Doug is now. Of course, at the time, they seemed old, wisened, you know - parents.
Now that I'm in that age of shoes, I cannot imagine how they completely felt like the bottom had dropped out of their lives. Talk about "if I knew then what I know now!"
I know wisdom and understanding MUST come with age, but it also sucks that I wasn't able to understand better then or over the years. Of course, I always served the role of Mom's friend and confidant (not necessarily willingly) for most of my life, but it gives me a new perspective looking back, for sure.
