Average Grod's Average Blog

I am 27 and a half. Today I think I officially entered adulthood. I have a mortgage, own two cars, actually own land, and have both a wife and a daughter. I vote, I pay taxes, I pay property taxes, I cook meals and change diapers but I never really considered myself a full adult. More of a young adult or something. Don't get me wrong I'm not completely delusional. Teenagers and even undergrads (can you believe my youngest brother is finished with school?!) are an annoying breed with whom I no longer identify or understand. Oddly enough this happened the day I stepped onto campus as a Senior in College. The past few years have felt sort of surreal and I have never seemed all the way grown up. It was difficult to view movies with twenty something actors and realize they are younger than I am. Actors in movies have always seemed older than me. This is probably why I don't identify with most of those twenty something soul searching movies. Anyways...

Today I took Emma to school. She doesn't attend any sort of school yet as she isn't quite two years old. Sometimes I drop Emma off there because her babysitter volunteers in her son's class. Today I was there to pick him up as a favor to her. I, cough* cough* I was responsible for him. I've babysat and volunteered in church nursery before. I've been a Sunday School Teacher and a VBS leader. All that was stuff that kids can do. I think this just seems more real to me because it is something that I've seen my parents do a million times. This is something that dads do. I signed him out and walked him and Emma across the street. I got them all buckled in safe and drove two kids through town. Me up in the front seat and the munchkins in the back seat. I guess this is just the first of many more trips to come. I think I am ready.

Someday maybe Emma will read this along with some of the other stuff I've left up here. If she is anything like my wife she'll get a kick out of it. At least she will know that we didn't always know what we were doing and weren't always sure of ourselves. All the same it will be cool to let her in on our secret insecurities when she is getting married and having kids. I wonder if we can keep them secret til then?