I as I age more and more of my friends have married and have children. It seems like everywhere I go these days there is baby talk and such. It gets on my nerves, though I would never say that to any of them. It almost feels like they think that their lifestyle choice is more important than mine - to still be single into my mid-thirties.

Add to that the endless cycle of weddings, christianings, birthdays, etc. where I endlessly buy gifts for people...it puts me at a disadvantage.

Anyone else feel similar or at least see where I am coming from? Or am i a brute for thinking like this? (be kind :) )

I yelled at my friend's kid last night for harrassing my cat. She's 4 and totally controls her mother. Not my business or my problem. But when you're in MY house, you behave.

oh great now you tramatized he kid, how is that workin out for ya tonight? is your best friend upset at all? just curious.

She's not my best friend, and I don't care if she's upset by it. If she'd control her brat I wouldn't have to yell at her.

oh i dunno why i read best in fromt of freind, anyways,, lol, i hear ya, i would have been upset too, i dunno why some people act retarded with their kids and don't watch them and disclapine them, when their out of control.

it's stupid,, we used to get slapped and sent to our rooms when we acted up.

Nah, I don't think you're being unfair to think like this. I felt the same way when I was childless. I didn't get married and have my daughter till I was 27, so I had several years of listening to my friends go on and on about their family oriented lifestyle and endless child drama. Combine that with the fact that they no longer wanted to barhop or go on girl adventures (Vegas, anyone?) and I was miserable most of the time.

Now, however; their kids are almost grown and mine is still small. So now it's ME who says, "Awwww...a weekend in New Orleans? Wish I could, but little Suzy still has that rash and we have that birthday party at Chucky Cheese on Saturday, you know..." Hahaha...it'll be you too, one day. ;)

It won't be me!

Lol...I said the same thing!

BTW, does anyone know how to remove melted crayon stains out of leather upholstery?

Just asking.

You can try this but be careful not to burn or pucker your leather. Take an iron and a paper towel and lay the paper towel over the crayon and with a low heat rub the iron over the paper towel over the crayon. The crayon will melt into the paper towel, move the towel around to clean spots until the crayon is gone, a little of rubbing alcohol should remove the remaining. This trick works on carpet and cloth too. If they're just marks on the leather seat a little dawn dish soap and water should do the trick.

Thanks, lol...I'll try that.

Of course, this evening I've discovered that she decided to write on the back of my car seat with a ball point pen while coming home from grocery shopping. Cute little smiley faces and loopty-loops....grrrrr.

Needless to say she's been sentenced to a weekend of cleaning her room (which has been looking like a landfill since Christmas) and mine....lol.

Yeah but trust me, I mean it!

see that's where some educated dudes miss out on the fundamental things in life, i was brought up with the children come first ! always. has nothing to do with selfishness here,, leave it at the door when u entera friends home who has kids, they are of the utmost importsnce,, the kids,, the kids come first,, the kids are our furture,, be nice to them they will the ones poushing you around in your wheel chair some day.

one of my granfathers is gone and oast away years ago,, he was an itailian from the old country,, the children were always first,, ofcoarse i may have gotten on his nerves, but you wouldn't know it, when my dad and mom dropped me off with the grandparents as they went to work, or mabe even for a rest from taking care of us kids, that was the most funnest place to be, it was better than home.

that was my experience as a kid, also, one time i was chewing on a squishy toy,, you don't see them anymore, the littl egreen monster squishys, allof yous will remmber them,, strech ,monster!! that was it, just jogged my memory.

i was chewing on the toy,, my grandfather took it and wipped it out the front door like it was nobodies business,, i cried, i remeber that like it was yesterday. i used to waych him shave with a straight razor and the foam cup he would wip up the shaving cream, it was like the greatest thing to watch. they would often pull me out of the floor cabinets as i would get into the Goliath's dog biscuts,, Goliath was shepard they had, and earned that name perfectly as a the strongest dog i ever knew.. i also remembered when we got into their home the smell of spaguetti always cooking, and meatballs,, i would watch him make meatballs in this big cooking pan he would moosh them all up and break all the eggs on top and just make it,, it was great.

i remeber my grandmother having me in tote hanging onto her dress through the old north end of boston, in the old fruit and vegatable stands, the smell of vegatable was everywhere and rotten tomatoes smooshed on the street that were no good or disregaurded,, also rotten lettuce smeared on the old sidewalks and broken wooden crates lay all over the place. those were the days, it was probably 1968, i remeber it like it was 5 minutes ago,, that is how fast life goes bye.

kids are the most important thing, i think they should be the forefront after God in one's life, i am not pushing my opinion on anyone ! i won't hide light given either someone out their may need to see it.

I can sympathize with you. I'm 41 and single/no kids and I live in a part of NJ that is overwhelmingly couples with small kids. Everywhere you go is people and their children and there are seemingly no single women around. I wouldn't even mind a divorcee with a child, as long as the kid is well-behaved. I love where I live, except for the fact that it is a social wasteland. It's the same thing in work, everyone's social life revolves around their kids and if you're single you feel left out. But let's face it, if you're over 30-35 and single that's what you need to expect. I don't blame anyone for putting their families first, that's as it should be.