Dating my Daughter

I am a single mother – three by two: three daughters, two dads – waiting to exhale. A few years ago I was basking in the glory my eldest had achieved and telling everyone about her 2.1 degree and getting on the property ladder at the age of 23.
Wish I had a pair of Jimmy Choos for the number of mothers who said “She sounds lovely. I wish my son could meet someone like that!” Too late! I left a wake of disappointnent as she had found her someone. Now the second daughter will be 23 in four weeks and again I am preening with another academic success. (My what strong genes I have!) This one is a mama’s child. She’s smart, really funny, strong-willed. She is how I wish I’d been when I was 23. Perhaps I would have recognised the arseholes a lot sooner. There she is, a lovely, with her staypressed skin and size 8 body. Here I am at 51, approaching the menopause and losing the will to fight the flab and time. We are both single and unattached.
She thinks there’s plenty of time to get serious about someone but….
Let’s look at the timeline
She says she wants to wait until she’s 30 to have her first child….. Hmm….That means getting pregnant at 29……..
2 years prior to getting pregnant, fingers crossed she gets married at 27.
A wedding needs planning so hmmm …engaged at 25…..
Gotta get to know him so ……date for a couple of years at least….
OMG!! That means meeting THE RIGHT ONE has to begin RIGHT NOW. TODAY!!!!

What does my daughter think?
She hasn’t got the time or the inclination to trawl through internet dating sites.
She’s a sceptic – doesn’t think there are any Mr Rights cos they’re all knobs!
She finds this amusing and is prepared to indulge me.

So this time around, when I meet mamas with sons who have POTENTIAL, I am taking numbers and e-mails. I am hookin’ her up! Maybe this is more about me than about her:- a DO-OVER of my misspent youth. Nevertheless I’m on a mission. There IS a man out there who is so wonderful he should be DATING MY DAUGHTER!!!!!