Comments on: when you realize you’re getting old{er} https://www.thehandmadehome.net/when-you-realize-youre-getting-older/ The Handmade Home is a full service rehab, construction and design firm with an exclusive product line, at The Handmade Home Studio. Fri, 19 Apr 2019 17:02:54 +0000 hourly 1 By: ashley @ the handmade home https://www.thehandmadehome.net/when-you-realize-youre-getting-older/#comment-745679 http://www.thehandmadehome.net?p=35695#comment-745679 In reply to Laura @ The Turquoise Home.

I am SO GLAD I’m not the only one who found this completely traumatizing!!! He must have been older when he made the movie, because I always thought he was, well, our age when he made it. And when that movie came out, we were probably the oldest daughter’s age. So weird!

]]> By: Laura @ The Turquoise Home https://www.thehandmadehome.net/when-you-realize-youre-getting-older/#comment-745641 http://www.thehandmadehome.net?p=35695#comment-745641 Noooooo!!! The dad from Beethoven did NOT turn 80 this year?!? I’m so old right there with you (34). 🙁

]]> By: Colleen@Lilacdrivedesigns https://www.thehandmadehome.net/when-you-realize-youre-getting-older/#comment-745573 http://www.thehandmadehome.net?p=35695#comment-745573 Loved reading this post. I’m rounding the corner to 47 (wth)…how in the shizzballzz did I get here??? Seriously. Keep doing whatever you can to stay fit and trim. eat well. walk. sing. laugh. love. breathe. Whether we fight it or embrace it, it’s going to happen.
I wish I could slice 10 years off, that would be nice. I’m having a really hard time realizing that I’m now closer to 50 (can’t even wrap my head around it) than I am to 40. There are studies out there about the mental aspect of aging, turns out attitude really is everything! Stay positive and just keep moving 🙂

]]> By: david https://www.thehandmadehome.net/when-you-realize-youre-getting-older/#comment-745547 http://www.thehandmadehome.net?p=35695#comment-745547 Great post!
I’m the youngest in my family (by a lot – my sisters are 10, 15, and 19 years older than me…can you say “accident?”). And I’ve always identified myself as the youngest- always “mature for my age” etc.
And then, suddenly I was chronologically older than almost anyone I knew.
I tried to explain to everyone that I was still actually the youngest because I had been the youngest longer than they had. I had youngest-seniority.
Nobody bought it.
You look great! Hang in there and enjoy the “now.”
David

]]> By: Donna Marie https://www.thehandmadehome.net/when-you-realize-youre-getting-older/#comment-745543 http://www.thehandmadehome.net?p=35695#comment-745543 I only feel 61 when I look in the mirror and wonder who in the *&*# is that woman!!!

]]> By: Rochelle Alves https://www.thehandmadehome.net/when-you-realize-youre-getting-older/#comment-745509 http://www.thehandmadehome.net?p=35695#comment-745509 That was SO dang funny. Thank you for the laughs today. And I hate it when people guess my age accurately, too. And worse, when I’m pretty sure I’m a few years younger than someone, only to find out the reverse is true. The few years don’t really matter, until they are not in your favor! Ha! Keep writing. You’re really funny.

]]> By: Teddee Grace https://www.thehandmadehome.net/when-you-realize-youre-getting-older/#comment-745506 http://www.thehandmadehome.net?p=35695#comment-745506 You balled your eyes out?! I didn’t know they allowed that in movie theaters.

]]> By: Kim domingue https://www.thehandmadehome.net/when-you-realize-youre-getting-older/#comment-745476 http://www.thehandmadehome.net?p=35695#comment-745476 Fifty five year old, late bloomer here! Got carded until I was in my mid thirties.When I was somewhere around fourty three, I remember being in a store and was startled when I turned around and there was this older woman, right up in my face, and I remember thinking that I hadn’t heard anyone walking up behind me and what was WRONG with this woman, she was WAY TOO CLOSE to me and…….. OMG! I’m looking in a MIRROR!!! I went home and called my best friend and cried out the whole sad story to her. We laugh about it now but, man, it sure wasn’t funny then! My cousin gets to claim the
“Got It Worse Than You” award though. In the last year or so, she has consistently been referred to as my mother when we are out in public together…….she is only five years older than I am……. and I can promise you that I most certainly do not look 35 or even 40. She says it’s an award she would rather not have won! Growing older is not for the faint of heart!

]]> By: MAH https://www.thehandmadehome.net/when-you-realize-youre-getting-older/#comment-745475 http://www.thehandmadehome.net?p=35695#comment-745475 WOW, girl, I don’t want to be around when you turn 65! By the way I love 65. My favorite age was 50. It is a good thing that you haven’t gone through menopause (naturally, no surgery) which I did at 34!!!!! Now that is a real REALITY show. Good luck with getting old.

]]> By: Marisa Franca @ All Our Way https://www.thehandmadehome.net/when-you-realize-youre-getting-older/#comment-745473 http://www.thehandmadehome.net?p=35695#comment-745473 Hey! Once I started reading your post I was going to go all General Patton on you! A little nudge {my version of General Patton’s slap} so that you came to your senses. Every age is great! I am in my *ahem* just say over the big 6-0 and creeping closer to the other one. I don’t think about it. I cream the living daylights out of my skin and I thank God I never was a sun worshiper. The reason is I never could tan — I’d just freckle. Heck , I’m Italian and I’m supposed to tan. Regardless — live life to the fullest and don’t look in the mirror. Isn’t that a great philosophy. By the way — Happy 35th. May you have many more!!

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