the beach boys: don’t worry, baby
it’s officially march, which is my favorite month of the year! yay!
and yes my birthday is in march, and yes that does have something to do with my preference.
so i’m turning 29 this year, which to me seems kind of old. it’s no 30, of course, but i’m pushing it. and while i’m definitely the kind of person who could be described as “childlike” (only in a positive, whimsical way, of course), i do feel like i’m an adult.
er, rather, i’m *supposed* to be an adult. i do grown-up stuff like pay the bills and buy groceries and wonder about possible Career Changes.
but, surprise, it’s all an ACT! i’m not grown-up at all! i still want to jump on my bed and do makeovers on my friends and play hide and go seek when it’s aaaalmost too dark to be outside and make ridiculous “home alone” style sundaes and have my mom take care of me when i’m sick.
so, poop on you, adulthood!
but, ok, it’s not like i can just pull a peter pan here (if anyone has a lead on this possibility, though, let me know). especially when my friends INSIST on doing Adult Things like getting married and having kids.
you guys! quit it already! we’re not supposed to do that stuff until we’re like… 50! right? i mean, isn’t 30 the new 16? i hope so, cos i am tooootally having a “my super sweet thirty” party. DAAAAAAD! WHERE IS MY LEXUS? it was supposed to BE HERE when my helicopter dropped me off! WAAAAHHHH.
even though my friends keep running ahead of me in this whole life thing, it isn’t all bad. first, cos i LOVE going to weddings. second, cos when my friends have kids, i get to be crazy aunt sarah and totally spoil them and wear lots of gaudy jewelry and say OUTRAGEOUS things.
which is why i got REALLY EXCITED when i found out that…
THERE IS A POWER SUITE BABY ON THE WAY!
that’s right, one of my college roomies is preggers!!!!
meet sofia… and her burgeoning baby bump!
IS THAT INSANE OR WHAT?!! THERE IS A BABY IN THERE!!!!!! there is a BABY… inside… SOFIA.
and that baby is going to come out and get bigger and develop a personality and think of sofia as “mom” instead of sofia, the girl who made weird faces in pictures and rapped along to “intergalactic” and spent summers in jordan and danced her heart out at the sid rich 80s party.
and what’s even weirder is that sofia will still be that girl… but in mom form.
i have no doubt that she’ll be a fantastic, amazing mother, and i can’t wait to see her in action. but i admit, THIS IS WEIRD!
how do people go from being my college roommate to raising a kid? how does this work? how does sofia know what to do?
i’ve always heard that you can never really be “prepared” to be a parent, and i’m sure people read lots of books and blah blah blah. but the moment when sofia goes from sofia, powersuite girl to sofia, mother… it seems mystical and magical and absolutely bewildering to me.
but that magic is exciting, even while it’s confounding.
sofia is going to bring a new person into this life, and she’s going to love that person and teach that person and show that person this new, big, wide world. she will be a touchstone for this person, for a lifetime.
and then i’m gonna come over with my most extravagant hat on and take this child of sofia out for cupcakes and then let him/her sleep over at my house and we’ll stay up late and watch ridiculous movies and eat a ton of junk food and take bubble baths and try on fancy clothes (even if it’s a boy, we’re totally going to dress up in fantastical outfits) and i’ll spoil his/her PANTS OFF.
cos that’s what crazy aunt sarahs do.
and then i’ll take this child back to sofia, and sofia will probably say that i’ve spoiled the child too much, cos that’s what moms do.
and then we’ll look at each other and see all of these years between us and shake our heads with wonder. cos that’s what friends who are growing up do.
LINKS
i wasn’t sure what this whole ” texas caucus” thing entailed, so i looked it up and found this link which proved to be v. helpful. and YES, i was a poli sci major in college, so bite me.
check out this pretty fascinating article on whether or not boys and girls should be taught separately in school. surprisingly, the article doesn’t mention cooties as a reason, but we all know the truth.
perms are coming back? what? seriously? no. no. NOOOOO.
kiersten emailed me today to say that slash’s house is up for sale! what what!!! apparently ellen degeneres got a tour of it on her show. you can watch a little clip here, which proves, as i’ve said time and time again, that slash is the Most Awesome Person Alive. a-men.
I know!!! My cousin Mary, the girl who stood by me thick and thin as I continuously arrived in her neck of the woods to drink alcohol in illicit underhand fashion and then dance/flail around/kiss with her various friends, is going to give birth in DAYS. DAYS from now. It’s mental.
Her older sister Niamh has a son John and another on the way. It’d MADNESS I tell you. Beautiful madness, but madness all the same.
And yes, they do stay the same person, don’t they? I don’t mean to be ridiculous but that was an earth-shattering revelation for me. There’s one thing I will say, at the risk of cheesing it up….. My auntie Anne, who’s only a few years older than me, has positively begun to GLOW since she gave birth to little Stephen, who pulls awesome faces and finds the cat HILARIOUS. Seriously, she’s glowing. It’s saving them a fortune in electricity bills.
As for perms, two things: the English have been 80s-ing it up for a few years now. When I lived in Manchester it was getting a bit out of control. I’m not convinced about the perm though, because their ‘chavs’, in the wonderful timelessness, continue to sport that look in some areas. Quite frankly, in some parts of England you’d want to be able to take care of yourself to pull off a perm.
Oh yeah, and secondly, the Daily Telegraph is evil. It’s a good paper, but it supports the Tories. Evil.
Oh, I’m totally going to play Intergalactic for my kids (hoping to have more than one, though thank goodness there’s only one on the way right now) someday, although I won’t rap along because they’ll die of embarrassment!! I’m sure the song will be known as an “oldies station” already by then. Ha, doesn’t that make you feel even older?
oops, I mean played on the oldies station. Why don’t I edit before sending? (And I get mad at my students for not reading over their sentences before turning in their work.)
watching the pigbutt home movies this weekend made me feel older.
i love this post, sarah. sigh. the thought of sofia being a mom makes the thought of getting older much, much easier to swallow. and, if your dad buys you a lexus for yr 30th b-day, i will crack up.
in a fun twist, i somehow convinced jared on saturday that we should go to disneyland for my birthday.
crazy, no? and we can’t back out, because the tickets are already purchased. so i’ll celebrate my golden birthday (or whatever you call turning 29 on the 29th) in the happiest place on earth. on splash mountain and thunder mountain. surrounded by the crazy imagined world of disney.
I love this post too, and I sympathize with your situation, but you deal with it with far more grace than I do. I may write you a longer email about this. It is funny how you seem to be all going along at the same pace and then all the sudden some people are Real Grown-Ups and I’m still… kinda not. I don’t know. Anyway, good post.
julie, yr birthday celebration is EXACTLY what i’m talking about… and totally what i would do, if i lived near disneyland.
btw it’s called yr “super special birthday.” i mean, if you want to get technical.
sofia, if i ever hear the beastie boys on an “oldies station” i will… i dunno. probably call you and laugh.
Delightful/scary/wonderful post. Also, may I please make an aside and urge all of Posh’s Texas readers to CAUCUS today, pretty please? Read Sarah’s helpful link and get your booty back to your regular voting site at 7pm, b/c this is a big one!!!
i can’t believe dan is going to be a father. dan! just kidding, dan and sofia.
it is really amusing that we’ll be grandparents who listened to rap.
Weenston, are you implying you won’t be listening to rap anymore when you’re a grandparent?
I think this all just goes to show once and for all that our generation is clearly the finest in the history of humanity.
Not sure if you can embed things on here but here is a parody that was kind of funny and would have been better if they could act.
Guess you can’t embed on here but go to http://www.superdeluxe.com/sd/contentDetail.do?id=D81F2344BF5AC7BB7D24865AA755FD0A81D392F35A019B1B
to see a funny video that would have been better if they could act. Oh and its Not work safe.
This is awesome. I am really happy for Sofia and Dan. And the Beastie Boys will always be boys to me. Let me get some action from the seniors section!
Sofia is sooooooooo cute preggers. Hurrah hurrah!