Me...hmmm

So, I am a 32 year old woman. Already you are getting an image in your head, aren't you? Of course you are. But I am "Not the Norm." Now what do you picture? Well, I don't think I am the norm. To start, I am a brand new mom. When do women have kids these days? I looked it up. Thanks internet! In fact, the average age of a first time mom is 25! So, I am 7 years older than all of those many women. I don't feel like I am too old to be starting a family, in fact in some ways I feel too young to have a 4 month old son. I still have places I want to visit and I don't think I could really bring a baby to many of them. In other ways, I feel very old to be having my first child. I mean I am going to be 50 when he turns 18 and that means I won't be able to have a drink with my son until I turn 53. Yikes, I had hoped to have some cocktails with him when he was legal, but will he want to have drinks with his old mom?
I have really curly hair. I mean really curly hair. Watching those women on t.v.who can brush their hair, makes me upset. I can only brush my hair once a day...before I shower. If I were to brush it during the day my hair becomes like a giant cotton ball. But if I don't brush my hair I get dreadlocks. I have had African American women tell me that when my hair is brushed out it makes me one of them. Seriously, I have had multiple people say that to me. My mom told me that when she had us girls (I am the youngest of three girls) that her curls went to us. Her pictures tell that same story, but why is that I am the youngest and I have the most curls? Also, why don't you see women with curls in magazines? When they do makeover shows with people that have curly hair, it seems like 90% of the time they stylist makes their hair straight. Why? Why can't curls be the beautiful look?
Next, the thing that bugs me the most about myself, I am overweight. No, I am not one of those woman who says, "Oh, I am overweight. I have 10 pounds to lose." I have a lot more than that to lose! I don't feel brave enough yet to say how much I have to lose. What I will say is that I gained 41 pounds while I was pregnant and I have lost 36 pounds of that weight! Woohoo, but I have more than 41 more pounds to lose past the 41 I gained during the pregnancy.
So, I have started my blog...a little bit about me...and a little bit about how I am not the norm.