Reminders in the City

I always feel better about life and my future prospects of being a mom after a visit to see my sisters for a night out in the city.

I'm the oldest of 5 children. Me (36), J (sis, 33), J (bro, 31), L(sis, 29) & C(sis, 26)...

Yes, my mom was fertile.
And yes, my parents are Catholic.

All of my siblings, except for me, live in a very fun neighborhood in the city, within about a mile or so radius of each other. Every once in a while I go down after work on Friday for a night out on the town. It takes me a few hours to get down there, depending on traffic and I SO enjoy getting into my car, cranking up the tunes and driving in my zippy car.. (Ha, just thought to my self, Tippy's got a Zippy car...lol! I'm such a dork)... Where was it... Oh, the energy of the city is so fun. It gives me a boost, a charge, especially at night. In my next life, I will definitely live in a big city, in a high rise and not own a car or a house and take public transportation everywhere and eat out a lot... It sounds SO wonderful and sexy to me.... But I digress.

So we had dinner and some drinks at a fantastic French-Mexican fusion restaurant with my sister J, some of her friends and my other sister L, all for J's birthday. Besides the good food, drink and dressing up, it's also great to be reminded that there are a lot of women out there near my age who aren't mom's yet and that's... ok!  They have fun, fulfilling lives and they don't have the agenda of needing to have already popped out a few kids. I think I forget that sometimes because I am so immersed in a life here in my smaller city where all of my friends are parents 2 or 3 times over and most of my other friends are those that are trying and struggling to be parents just like me.

Reminding myself that I'm not the only one at my age with out children, even though that should be a VERY obvious statement, is a good thing to do every once in a while... and heck, if I HAVE to go to the city and have a few drinks and awesome food to do that.... I think I can manage.