I had a son born to me when I was 50, and I thought, 'He needs someone to bowl to him.'
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I remember my oldest son, Steve, saying to me once, 'I don't ever remember seeing you with an apron on.' And I thought, that's right, honey, you did not. That was his concept of what a mother should be.
Since I've had a son, I want to be around to see him grow up.
I think my father was somewhat disappointed in not having had a son, and in that way I was the nearest thing he had.
Having children is like having a bowling alley installed in your brain.
I thought I'd be married and a father by 35.
When you discover that you are going to have a child, it stirs up memories of your own childhood.
My first son Tony was born when I was only eighteen. I was a still a kid; I wasn't ready to be a dad, so he was put up for adoption and went off to live with a family that could care for him.
I was a little, skinny, runt kid, and I decided that bowling was what I was going to do in life.
I talked about adopting a baby when I was 20 years old, before it became 'hip.'
When I was born, some of our relatives came to our house and told my mother, 'Don't worry, next time you will have a son.'