🌿 LIFE ON THE DOWNHILL SIDE OF 60

I’ve decided to embrace life after 60 because I’m on the downhill side of 60 and even though David doesn’t like to admit it, he is as well. David and I are starting a new ongoing family series called Life on the Downhill Side of 60. I hope you will join us and share this story with your friends and family. You don’t have to be 60 to relate to the information or stories we will be sharing.

TheMommiessReviews.com is not a lifestyle blog, not a highlight reel, and not a collection of tips or advice. It is simply a way of telling the truth about what everyday life looks like when things shift, and you have to keep adjusting as you go.

In our home, life has changed shape in ways that are very real. Income has shifted. My husband’s hours have been cut, and that has created a noticeable change in how we plan, spend, and move through the month.

Charlie how is an adult now as children grow up and he is stepping into his own life, which changes the rhythm of the house in ways you don’t fully understand until you’re living it. And through all of it, I still wake up every day and figure out how to make life work again.

I am a later-in-life mom. My son Charlie is now 19, and we are in that in-between season where he is becoming his own person and life at home is transitioning into something new. It is not empty, and it is not finished—it is just different. And different requires adjustment.

This series is not about making life look easy. It is not about pretending everything is handled or polished. It is about showing what real family life looks like when you are building your days around reality instead of perfection.

Some weeks are steady and manageable. Some weeks feel stretched thin. Some weeks are about rearranging plans, stretching resources, and learning to work with what you have instead of what you wish you had. And some weeks are just about getting through and staying connected as a family while everything shifts around you.

We also live like a lot of real families do—finding ways to make things work in practical ways. Meals are sometimes planned tightly, sometimes stretched, sometimes built from what’s already in the house. Sometimes its left over from David’s mom.

Outings aren’t always expensive or elaborate. More times than not we end up staying home. Connection looks like simple moments at home, or talking through a screen instead of in person, or choosing what matters most when not everything can happen at once.

Nothing in this series is staged or filtered to look better than it is. There is no perfect version being presented here. Just real life, as it actually unfolds in real time. Not only in my home but also David’s as we spend a lot of time there.

Come join me as I’ll be sharing this series weekly. Sundays will hold the main story of the week, Wednesdays will reflect smaller real-life moments in the middle of everything, and Fridays may occasionally include lighter snapshots when life allows it.

If you follow along, you will not be seeing a polished version of life—you will be seeing life as it is lived, adjusted, and carried forward one day at a time.

This is our story, told honestly, as we continue living it. Come and share your story with us.

Thank you,

Glenda, Charlie and David Cates