babies, babies everywhere

So this sounds like it's going to be a post about how my maternal clock is ticking away and every time I see a cute baby I can feel my ovaries scream. It's not, although those things are sometimes true.

Many people around me are having babies or actively trying to have babies. And they're my age. I am not old. In fact, it strikes me as odd that anyone I know would be having babies without the requisite freak out about school/life/keeping it/etc. Basically, I still feel like my friends, peers and I are in high school, and that we ought to be, I don't know, avoiding pregnancy like it's the plague. Sure, we've gone on to college, joined the army, started businesses, gotten married, and so forth, but we can't possibly be old enough to have babies responsibly. (There's a bumper sticker I used to want that said, "We are the people our parents warned us about." Now, I would add to that, "and we're suddenly in charge.")

Except we are. And that terrifies me. Because my friends/peers are mostly good parents, responsible parents who attempt to do everything right. It's a strange time when friends you used to hang out with while wearing diapers now have children.

Also, our radio stations are sneakily morphing into the "new" oldies stations. I heard Nirvana referred to as being "Classic Alternative" the other day.