Yeah, it was cool, I guess. Except that they weren't really mom and grandma. They were more like friends that all hung out together. The mom and grandma were stuck in that 17 year old 'let's party!' phase. Honestly it didn't seem like a very healthy or emotionally stable situation, from my perspective. Kids need parents, and this family didn't have any parents.

On the flip-side, my parents were 45 when I was born. I'm sad that my dad is gone now, and he didn't get to see my wedding or give me advice about kids. However, I think there is a lot of value in having a large generational gap. I feel like have a much broader historical perspective than most of my friends, because my parents were telling stories about how it was in the 60s rather than how it was in the 80s. And I was raised like a child of the 60s rather than a child of the 80s. It's a different perspective, for sure.