Today I broke my favorite ruler. It's an Eleanor Burns Quilt in a Day 6" square dated 1989. I think I got my moneys worth out of it and I'll definitelly buy another one like it. Made me realize how long I've been quilting.

But--I also realized that ruler is older than the extern who is training in our office!!! OMG!!

Where do the years go? LOL!! :-D :-D

Seems like doctors get younger and younger too!

Boy! Isn't that the truth!

Baby Dr. does not = pediatrion

When I moved back to Texas, I thought it was a bit odd that one of the doctors was my high school friend's little brother. Now the doctor I went to for my foot went to school with my kids.

I'm NOT that old! Really I'm not! Am I? Nope...counting backward now...lol

Don't fret about getting old Ladies, it sure beats the alternative.

Which is exactly why I decided years ago to stay 29. I have been that age for almost ?? years.

You are soooo funny! Just had my 55th b-day, so feel a little old too right now.
When I went back to college for my RN after 25 years as an LPN, my first clinical instructor was young and looked a little familiar....turns out he was a classmate of my eldest DD!!!!!!!! What a kick! :-)

The first time I really felt old was the first time I drove through a college campus and wondered what all those "kid" were doing there! Before that I always thought they looked like me....and now they look like babies!!

So true Jingleberry!

I am a grandma of almost 2.DD is due in September! I am 40! This makes my head spin!

I am nanna ...really? Yup, it's true! My grandson just learned to say Na-na....Yikes!

You too???????????? :lol:
I was explaining our program to a doctors nurse the other day and found myself asking if she had just graduated...didn't mean to say it out loud, it just slipped :oops: She had been out of college for 3 years! :roll:

Someone asked me yesterday what book I am reading and I told them PEYTON PLACE. They had never heard of it all I said was "you are young aren't you"

:thumbup:

I have had something similar happen. I mentioned that DH collected LP's (33-1/3 records)...they just gave me a blank stare 8-)

yep I feel old when I think of how old my kids are. especially the oldest. he is 32. exactly 19 yrs younger than me. yikes. my daughter is 30 and the youngest is 24. really makes me feel like time has slipped away as it seems like only yesterday they were babies.

had my first grandbaby at 44.

Policemen are just babies. Does their Mother know they have that gun???

Now that is a true statement!!
:-D :-D

I understand completely! My oldest DD is 37, 17 years younger than me. L too became a grandmother at 44. Aren't grandkids the greatest?

I feel oldest when I see pictures of myself 30 years ago. who was that person and where did they go? Otherwise I avoid the mirror and think I'm as young as I feel.

LOL thats always me response to getting old....
Ill take getting old over being dead, any day :D

Time sure does go quickly.

I know what you mean about the young doctors.
The last several we hired in our oncology office were my childrens age
I was able to help train our doctors with some of the ways we did things with our patients.
This was good because I did not have to learn to do things his way or her way.

I enjoyed reading what everyone answered to this one. I don't mind getting old....just don't want to feel it! I'm 58 and still on the move...so I'm thankful!

I had to laugh at this one! I used to say I stopped at 25, then when even the elem. kids I taught didn't believe me, I bumped it up to 29. Now the middle school kids I teach don't believe me. Oh well. I'm not budging...
Rose

Aww heck...its just a number and I don't really care what the number is. I just don't want the aches and pains that come with the aging. Other than that....as they say around here..."its better than being horizontal!" :lol: :lol:

I tell everyone that I'm 21, with 32 years of experience! ;)

When it comes to ages...my family is REALLY mixed up! I am 11 years older than William, who is 6 years older than my oldest son. My oldest son is married to a woman 10 years older than he is...making my daughter in law 6 years younger than I am, and 5 years older than William, her "father in law".
William is younger than all but three of my mother's grandchildren....my two boys and my brother's girl. (I'm the baby of 5)

My children are older than me.

We are not old, we are Vintage! :)

hubby just turned 21- so he can be older than youngest son who is 20.

I always say age is a number assigned to you so you know when to retire. :)

I want to retire with hubby, in 6 years but it looks like it won't happen since I now work for myself.

Charlee...
WHEE..what a blast...I love it....
Just glad I was into my first coffee just trying to do the math..... :-)
LOVE IT! LOVE IT! LOVE IT!!!!
This old age this is something else....I look back and say where have the years gone..I just can't see it....seems like yesterday I was 18-20..."AMAZING"!!!!!
I guess we just to to ENJOY LIFE!!!!!! Make the most of each moment!!!!!!!
Hugs to everyone!!

All of you are babies. I am 73 yrs old and still working as a church secretary 15 hours a week at a church within sight of my house. I remember party-line telephones, have worked as a telephone operator in a store when the switchboard had plug-in lines and worked as an elevator operator when it was necessary to turn a handle to stop it at the floors. I worked most of my life as a medical transcriptionist and was the first transcriptionist to type notes at the first hospital where I worked. Before that the notes were hand-written by the transcriber. That hospital now has a large staff in medical records to do that. One of the machines used for dictation had a wax cylinder that was erased by scraping off the top layer of wax. I have a sweatshirt that I bought at a yard sale years ago that reads "Age is a number and mine is unlisted." My biggest surprise was passing a mirror one day and then going back to look again because I thought I saw my mother in it. She will be 94 this year and still drives a car and lives in alone is her own house. Guess it's in the genes. Love reading the board.

I turned 49.95 last year. I just could not say 50 for a long time. My mon is 76 and gets out of bed running. She still mows her own yard and walks a mile a day. She says keep moving to stay moving.

8...I love your attitude!!! I remember driving around with my 80+ year old grandmother in the car and she would wink and flirt with men in the next car at all the stop lights...then we'd speed off and laugh like 12 yr olds!! Ain't life grand??? :lol: :lol:

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8gr8kids

Can relate to all you wrote......

we were at a casino and the young man next to me kept getting up answering his cell phone.......came back and said he didn't know what it would be like without them......hubby replied he remembered before we had tv...all the young KID could say was "WHAT?"

Wouldn't you just love to go through a Sunday of the 40's & 50's.

One would be enough!!!!!!!!

Almost four yrears ago youngest Grandson asked his Mom how old she was, when she answered 40, he said "Thats a biggg numder". Now that's my favorite saying anytime I hear a large number, larger than 40.

When our youngest daughter (now 27) was in 1st or 2nd grade, as presidents day was approaching, they were studying about Lincoln and Washington. The previous summer we had been to Washington, D.C. to Ford's Theater where Lincoln was shot, so some of the history was fresh in her mind and she was really into all that they were learning. I didn't realize how confusing it must be to the young ones learning about 2 such prominent historical figures at the same time until, One day as we were driving in the car, she turned to me and asked, "Mommy, how old were you when Abraham Washington was shot?"

Wasn't sure which was funnier....her mixing the names together or the fact that I had done such a good job of telling her about the happenings of Lincolns assassination, that she thought I was alive when it happened!! :roll: :oops: :lol:

last birthday, hit 76 but the one that lingers is the one when I turned 28.

my oldest daughter, not yet 5 at the time was talking about how old I was that day....and rather than say 28, she said, "mommy, you're a score, a fin and three"

now how's that for a shocker??????

You know you are getting old when you start to lie about your kids ages.

Yes, you sure wonder what happened to all the years and you wake up and realize you are "vintage" as one of the gals here said. My Gram once told me long ago, that after 50 the days start going by so fast. She is right.

Ladies, I did not want to get old.... Pretending I'm 35 for ?? years. Well, it's all catching up with me and making me a bit sad to turn 70 this August. Boy does that sound old to me! I can't believe I've lived that long.
Quilting gives me a lot of joy. Being on this Board does too.