Product Description
Congratulations, baby boomers: You are now officially all middle-aged. Its a book of firsts: My first colonoscopy, my first reading glasses. A book of vital statistics, including married name(s), circumference of abdomen, cholesterol count (HDL and LDL), and home state (Red or Blue). Its a place to keep track of primary care giversherbalist, psychopharmacologist. Record favorite expressionsIm having a senior moment. Dressing on the side, please. 60 is the new 50. Keep track of What Ive Grown, from liver spots to knee flaps. Theres also a place for a lock of hair (if you can spare it) along with the Seven Stages of Hair Loss (men: from minoxidil to shaves head; women: from plucks grey hairs to dyes it champagne blond). Plus essaysAm I Smiling or Is It Gas, and I Go to School, a parody of Adult Ed classes.
From the Back Cover
MY FIRST READING GLASSES, MY FIRST GRAY HAIR, MY FIRST COSMETIC SURGERY. . . Middle age, like babyhood, is an exciting developmental stage filled with memorable firsts and growth spurts (pot bellies, chin hairs, liver spots, and knee flaps). And what better way to remember all the little details that make you specialyour bottle formula (Pinot or Cosmo?), your toilet training (Make public announcement? Engage in self-praise?) than to write them down in your very own Boomer Baby Book, an invitation for every over-40 man (Its prostate, not prostrate) and woman (Is it hot in here or is it me? ) to celebratewho else?yourself!