Ah, I do have stretch marks....but I figure, I earned them in the line of duty....luckily I had very easy labors and births with both my boys, so the stretch mark thing did not really bother me a lot...
Yep, as we begin to age, our metabolism slows down, I had to give in and get glasses, and sometimes I will forget little things, tho for just a short while...however, I have maintained my excellent hearing...my younger son always called it my 'mother hearing'...no matter how quiet my boys tried to be, while plotting their little schemes, I could always hear them just fine...and they hated that...
When my kids are quiet I know somethings up!
You know what I wish though. I wish that I enjoyed learning things the way I do now when I was young and in college. All I had ever known at that point was school, and more school. I made good grades, but I didn't put the kind of effort into it that I should have. I had my son 9 months after graduation. My husband says he's my little graduation gift. After that I spent the next seven years changing diapers. Once my kids got to a point where I didn't have to watch them every second, I found that I just really craved mental stimulation. Now I can't stop. Homeschooling has been great fun, and educational for me because I want to learn as much as possible about everything I teach them. We've been studying ancient civilizations starting with Egypt and working our way up. We're in medieval Europe now. I get so excited that I'm pouring over the stuff and trying to get my kids as fascinated as I am. Sometimes they are. Sometimes they're like, "enough already! We wanna play!" I just wish I had been more serious, and disciplined when I was younger. I was smart enough, but I was a bit of a goof off. I could have gotten way more out of my education.