SUBREDDIT: r/relationships
TITLE: Me [26/F] with my BF [44/M] of 1.5 years, discussing marriage and kids. The age gap is becoming real!
POST: we've been together for 1.5 years, lived together for 6 months, and things are lovely. I have a truly supportive partner who challenges me in all the right ways. I never really saw myself getting married, but now I can kind of see why people do it. I certainly see myself as an old lady with children and grandchildren.

But he's 44. He's never been married before, but seems to really want to tie the knot and have a family. Help me think through this? I always figured I'd start worrying about kids after I turned 30, but if he'll be 48 by then, it seems like the smart thing might be to get started sooner. 

Am I crazy to actually consider having children with someone so much older? Or is the difference between fathering at 44 and 50 not that big? He's a fabulous uncle to my sister's kids and to his brother and sister's kids. And I do want kids. There's just so much I want to do before that! live abroad! sleep on my friends floors when I visit them! go hiking and camping and...I don't know, maybe all that is possible?
TL;DR: 
Do I get to marry the man I love and wait 5 years before kids, or will he be too old? Could it be the right choice to have kids before I think I'm 'ready'? What are my options?