It was much easier to think of things that make me feel not like a grown-up, because that includes nearly everything.
However, I dug deep in order to bring you this list: 10 things that make me feel like a grown-up
1. Cleaning up after myself. See above.
2. Listening to NPR. The median age of NPR listeners is 55.
3. Roasting a chicken. I lose some grown-up points when I insist that my husband carve it (I don't like all that juice squirting out. Or the bones.).
4. Going to a restaurant with my kids. I thought that maybe having kids would make me feel more like a grown-up, but it doesn't. Taking them out in public, though, that'll do it. There will usually be some people in their early twenties, and they will think I am a grown-up because I have an entourage of three people who depend upon me for survival. This fits into the "fake it 'til you make it" category of things that make me fee like a grown-up.
5. Asking for recommendations for chiropractors (by the way... know anyone good?).
6. Waking up at 5:15 to go running.
7. Waking up at 5:15 to do anything else.
8. Drinking a glass of wine with dinner. No, not because drinking wine with dinner is in and of itself a grown-up thing to do. Drinking a glass of wine with dinner will invariably make me wake up no less than four times throughout the night to pee. Even just noticing this makes me feel like a grown-up.
9. Wearing Danish clogs. Wearing a scarf. Wearing earrings. Wearing all three together is like the grown-up triumvirate.
10. Blogging about freezing stuff. Okay, this one's a stretch, but I needed a way to tell you that I posted a new recipe: No-Bake Granola Bites.
What makes you feel like a grown-up?
Chiro: Dan Miller with UPMC Center for Integrative Medicine (right down the road from Shadyside Hospital on Aiken). Feel free to tell him that I sent you if you go see him! :) (Candy)
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DeleteLucia asked, "Mama, why are grown-ups always so tired"? So, therefore, being tired makes you a grown-up.
ReplyDeleteWow. That girl pays attention.
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