“Salad Days.”
My mom always referred to your “Salad Days” as the time when you were done raising your kids, and cruising toward retirement. In fact, it’s just the opposite, and, bonus, Shakespearean.
The Free Dictionary defines it as “a time of youth, innocence, and inexperience.” It dates back to “Antony and Cleopatra”:
“My salad days, / When I was green in judgment, cold in blood.”
Green in judgment, cold in blood. I like that. That Shakespeare guy probably has quite a future ahead of him.