I was procrastinating a bit yesterday – taking many breaks from a big project I’m finishing up in an effort to stay motivated. It was hard though. And the weather didn’t help either. It was dark and miserable all day, with rain falling randomly all afternoon.
I was still in my comfy pjs after 7 pm. Now I tell myself that I can work better when I’m comfy to try to justify this behaviour. But that is not really the case. Nor is it really the point of this post. This is:
Out of all the procrastinations, the one I enjoyed the most was getting caught up on what all my Generation X friends were up to on Facebook.
The one thing I came to realize is the veritable baby boom that is happening out there! Now I’ve known for a while that I’ve entered that phase of life; heck, even my current job is a maternity leave replacement. But I guess I didn’t really start to connect all the baby dots until I was about an hour into Facebook and baby pictures yesterday morning.
After a while I was starting to feel like I might be the only one out there who’s not pregnant, on maternity leave or otherwise posting photos of offspring on Facebook.
My favourite by far, though, is little Kate Davey. She’s just over a week old and already has her own Facebook page where she’s actively blogging about her life in between eating, sleeping and a heavy social schedule. Now there’s a girl who’s got life figured out, as far as I’m concerned!
In some ways she’s already the embodiment of the world these young Gen X offspring have been born into. To them, living your life online will be the norm – much more so than for most of us, who (with exceptions of course) still are only just beginning to see the power of blogging, social networking and other fascinating trappings of the online world.
What a fascinating journey they will have.
I made Snapshots of a Canadian Life…at 11 days old. All smiles here in the basinette.
xxxooo
Kate
I think there’s definitely a Gen X baby boom going on. Something that won’t be reported by the Boomer-dominated media, because it’s something the Xers are doing. Procreating. And we’re not just having one trophy kid to dress up and sign up for high-end karate lessons. We’re having lots and lots of kids. And we’re bringing back the family vacation. It’s awesome. Go Xers!
You’re right on that one…I’m seeing more two and three child families again these days than we were for a while. Maybe this is a backlash against the materialistic, consumerist society we grew up in (remember the 80s?) – and our way of saying that in the midst of all that, we know what really matters: family. A fascinating topic…and I’ve been enjoying your blog since you first commented here:)
Lilian
In 2009, Generation X will be between 43 and 49 years old. Aren’t we a little old to be having a baby boom?
Unless you’ve changed the definition of “Gen X”… any Gen X baby boom should have been noticed sometime ago.
I guess it depends on which definition of Gen X you follow. When I was searching for an exact time span before writing this post, I found everything from 1965-1975 to 1964 – mid/late 1970s and even as wide a spread as 1961 – 1981.
My observations are based on my thirty-something friends and colleagues, all born before 1980. So maybe it should be more closely defined as a tail-end Gen X boom?