Today my second child officially turns 21 years old. It’s another milestone in being a parent and watching a child grow to an adult. This reminded me of a spreadsheet that I created when I realized that, on my 43rd birthday my oldest son was exactly half my age.
It’s not a difficult calculation: Determine the difference in age in days between your child and yourself, multiply that by two, and add that onto your Childs age.
When determining my all my kids’ 2x birthdays (TwiceDays? Triple-Quad-D aka Double-Dad-Days?) I went ahead to find out when those dates existed for my parents.
For my Father our PairDemiJour is June 21, 2009.
For my Mother our HalfMomMirror is September 28, 2008.
In all this birth date calculation I learned that I fathered my first 4 children earlier than my parents fathered me. Nothing to brag about, numbers do that for themselves.
So, the point? Maybe to create another special day that bonds parents with their children? Maybe. I just think when I rolled the cosmic dice and realized that on my 43rd birthday I’d be twice the age of my firstborn it was a gift from myself half-my-life away that I was glad to discover.