When I was younger I used to wonder how I would ever get to be as smart and grown up as the adults in my life. They seemed to have all the answers and make things look easy.
I graduated high school and thought I knew a lot but I knew I wasn't really "grown up."
I went to college and held down as many as 3 jobs at a time while taking classes and thought I knew a lot. But even then I knew I wasn't really "grown up."
Eventually I got married and had kids. We bought a house. I was doing a pretty good job of looking grown up I thought.
But I distinctly remember the night I realized I was about as grown up as I was ever going to get.
We had friends visiting from out of town. I wanted to make pizza for supper because that was something my mom always made and they always loved to have at our house. While they sat and visited I mixed up the dough from scratch and made dinner. When dinner was over I cleaned things up and let them talk.
It was around the same time that I took on tasks like dinners after baptism or First Communion as well as birthday parties.
Well looky there. Without realizing it I had suddenly become the grown up. Preparing for parties like my parents used to do. And not really minding it. OK, so sometimes there is a little hissy fit due to stress and the general pig-sty lived in look of my house just not quite working for me when it's almost party time. But overall, I realized that when you can host Thanksgiving dinner for the family and not mind cleaning up while they sit and talk, that's when you are the grownup.
And frankly, hosting/cleaning up from parties is probably the easiest part of being a grown up. Right?
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