What Makes You Feel Grown? - Page 3

brickhouse492 · #1 04-30-2003, 04:17 PM

This morn in McD's I asked some teenagers to cool it with the improper language. My mother gave me this, "I'm so proud" look and it just went to my head. I felt allllllllllll grown up.

btb87 · #2 04-30-2003, 10:42 PM

My beautiful, brown-eyed daughter. Although she's 8 years old, it's sometimes still hard to believe I'm actually a mom!

These 2 dadgum car payments!

Being able to really talk with my mom on an adult level without hearing her tell people "she may be taller than me, but I'm still the mama!"

Dionysus · #3 04-30-2003, 10:50 PM

The kid who used to I babysit across the street has a car, job, and has possibly lost his virginity.

I feel old indeed.

Mz Destiny · #4 05-01-2003, 08:49 AM

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Originally posted by Wonderful1908

2. Writing checks
3. Coming and going as I please
4. Nobody sends me money any more
5. Planning trips.
6. Going to bed early, hey I see why my parents went to bed before I did.
7. Not being able to hang like I did when I was in school.

1.Writing checks & paying bills online (I guess this coincides with getting calls from the collections people -UGH)

2. I'll be 30 this year and I still catch grief when I try to come and go as I please. I care for my 85-year old granny and she makes me feel bad when I'm out and about!

3. The last time I received any money from people outside of my house was when my mom passed away in 2000

4. I try to go to bed early, but sometimes it doesn't work. Believe me, I FEEL IT in the morning!

5. I can't hang anymore...so sad...

recentASAalum · #5 05-01-2003, 09:15 AM

my mom and I were watching a movie... the daughter in the movie was narrating and she said something along the lines of her and her mom being adult friends, not so much mother and daughter anymore.... I leaned over and asked my mom if we were adult friends... she said yeah... that made me feel grown up cuz she thought I was grown up!!!

1savvydiva · #6 05-01-2003, 10:23 AM

1). When I was living with my mom, her making me clean up my room/the kitchen etc. would make me feel like a child. Now I take pride in keeping my house clean, and it makes me feel grown when people come in and say "Dag, your house is always so neat!"

2) Knowing that if I don't happen to clean up before I leave to go somewhere...NOONE IS GOING TO SEE IT!!! Things will be exactly the same way I left them!

3) Buying groceries and cooking real meals, I think I have gotten to be a better cook since living on my own.

4) Clocking in everynight, and getting a regular paycheck.

5) Getting mail/bills/voicemail!

6) Being able to tell my mother about something in my life and when she starts in on me, say "Thank you Mother, but I wasn't asking for your approval!"

7) Slipping in a curse word while talking to G-Ma and after excusing myself and expecting a reprimand, I get a laugh and a "That's my grandbaby, at least you got it honest!"

8) Deciding at a moment's notice to go out of town and just gas up Silvie and hit the highway...not asking for anyone's permission.

9) Being asked to HOST the family dinner!

(My family is supposed to be coming down for Thanksgiving this year!)

lovele1978 · #7 05-01-2003, 12:35 PM

1) Having holiday dinners at my house

2) Going on vacations without the fam

3) Showing people the door in my house when they get on my nerves

4) Writing checks

5) Planning a summer schedule for my son (ie. camp, vacation with grandma, swimming lessons, etc)

6) Doing what I want, when I want!!

Honeykiss1974 · #8 05-01-2003, 12:38 PM

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Originally posted by btb87

Being able to really talk with my mom on an adult level without hearing her tell people "she may be taller than me, but I'm still the mama!"

This must be on the first page of the "Momma Handbook" because I heard this too much in my house.

Kisha · #9 05-01-2003, 01:51 PM

seeing my friends marry and have children.

UNNOspr99 · #10 06-02-2003, 01:59 PM

1)Telling Kids I watched grow up good advice,

2) telling little kids stuff my elders told me. (I.E: quit running in church, quit fighting your cousins etc, etc)

or my personall favorite:

3) being able to sit around the grown folks when they used to make us "go out and play" and "quit looking in grown folks mouths"

Fraternally,

Kamryn · #11 11-25-2005, 11:33 PM

~Paying Bills
~Working and earning $$
~Giving my mom advice sometimes.
~Dressing grown (make-up and high heels)
~Going out or coming home when I want without having to explain anything.
~Being called Miss. or Ma'am makes me feel grown, but it also makes me feel old.

christiangirl · #12 11-26-2005, 02:33 AM

I know full well I'm not grown yet, I don't care if I'm in college, I still need my parents help. But I do have my moments of responsibility....

Staying up writing papers nearly 10 pages long (remember in high school when 5 pages made your mouth fall open?)

Buying my own groceries

Dating (I didn't start till college)

Filling up/washing my own car

Never having to say "Well, let me ask my parents and get back to you."

Having my mom offer me a drink instead of sending me to my room so I won't see her drinking

....Oh yeah, and having a HUGE crush on Chris Brown, but thinking "Ugh, he's only 16."

#13 11-26-2005, 06:28 AM

What makes me feel grown:

Having my car payment debited electronically each month from my account (this is the only bill I can do this with, too scared to do the others)

Having my grandmother depend on me for errands

Funny story-My mom always said that I was grown ONLY when I moved out of her house. So when I was living there after college and had my job and car I still wasn't grown to her. When I moved out I was contemplating on when I would let her know that I was grown because she neglected to acknowledge the fact

We were at my grandmother's house so I decided to let them know at the same time. I proudly announced myself, and my mother called me over to her chair. Thinking she was going to congratulate me, this lady PUNCHED ME IN MY THIGH!!

It hurt too! I didn't care though, cuz even with a hurt thigh I was still grown

Later on that night I of course accidentally ran into the footboard of my bed and bruised the exact same spot where my mother hit me. Boo.

lostnfound117 · #14 11-26-2005, 10:09 AM

1. Paying the mortgage
2. Paying bills
3. Coming home when I please

DC_Zeta1920 · #15 11-26-2005, 11:39 AM

Buying my car

Paying my car insurance

Paying my bills online monthly

Buying all of my clothes and food

Being able to order a drink

Being able to come and go as I please

I'M ENGAGED

Dressing grown (I can honestly say my taste in clothing has made a change)

The fact that I can no longer stay up all night and be nice and perky the next day. I must go to bed early.