marriage with children

...seems to be the next step in life. At least for my friends. The past two years I've had many friends tie the knot and a few even have kids. I think it all started to sink in when the annual Memorial Day Weekend party had a play pin! I even got to hear the line, "here hold my kid while I shotgun this beer." That quote is disturbing to me. It's like my generation didn't get the full memo about life's next step. The memo should say: "in your mid-20's you should find someone who you love and who loves you back and marry that person. Have children. Grow up and settle down." My generation, under the any-excuse-to-party moto, got drunk in celebration of getting married and was too wasted to read the rest of life's memo. the whole "grow up" thing just hasn't happen for some of them.