I also got a cabbage patch doll a couple years ago-----if I decide I want to drag a baby around and do not want to take dog, I guess I could grab my cabbage patch doll?
Gosh my mom had me when she was 15, and my bro 2 yrs later. then when I was 15 she went and had b/g twins. Even tho I did not live there, somehow she was able to harness my sense of duty to family and I babysat them many days from 330 till midnite while she worked. Then I went elsewhere at midnite to babysit for a 3rd shift worker single mom.
When I was 27 mom had another son. My dtr came 2.5 years later....my mom NEVER babysat my kids but I often was called upon to go babysit my yougest brother.
I always wondered how my mom managed.....parenting all those years....but it was not so much the at home stuff, but...I absolutely do not think I could go thru the school stuff all over again.
Dogs and kittens and cabbage patch dolls do not have to go to school. 
I suppose with a 17 and an 18 dtr at the moment, one just never knows when one could become a gramma? THAT thought makes me a little nervous.
Yeah, I LOVE Babies.....and nah, I do not think i am too young to be a gramma.....but I keep telling my kids they are too young to be mommies.
Fainting goats sound kinda neat to have around!
Guess I will settle for our 3 new kittens, tho- they get to come to us next week or so! I am excited!
