Well, it finally came
really
me
FORTY!!!
~Sigh~
I have always enjoyed birthdays, whether my own or someone else's. I look at it as a day that is only for you, a day that you can choose what ever you want. If your lucky enough to get to go out for dinner you get to pick the restaurant, its the day that you get to eat cake and/or ice cream that hopefully someone else made for you, it's the day that you get a gift that was specially picked out just for you. What other day are you seeked out to be wished a happy day, your email box fills up with well wishes, your phone rings early in the morning and late into the evening, you get text messages and Facebook posts; how can you not be happy.
I've decided to tell myself that I will wear each wrinkle with pride, it shows where I have been; and that turning 40 doesn't bother me.....that much; but not being able to be called young anymore, that bothers me, no it ticks me off! I am still young at heart, it's not my fault that the mirror, muscles, brain, eyes..skin....hair OK what ever so they just don't agree with me! I'll get over it.
I have compiled my list of 10 ways I know I'm turning 40:
1. My memory takes long walks to somewhere I am not privy to or just can't remember how to unlock the door. I find myself blaming others for putting my stuff somewhere other than where it should be or telling a friend I will be right back and then remembering 2 hours later that I didn't go back.
2. Telling stories to the kids and using the phrases "way back when" or "when I was a kid". I haven't physically seen it yet but I imagine they are rolling there eyes every time I start a sentence this way.
3. My choice in music is still back in the 80's and 90's, I hear the kids talking about different bands and I have no idea who they are talking about or can't understand why radio stations play certain songs and think wow this is just bad music. (then weeks later find myself singing along)
4. I have a person", which means the same thing as a BFF but much more sophisticated, OK not really but I can pretend. She is an amazing person; she's a wife, a mom, a professional, a student and a runner. She is the person that I look to when I need a laugh and when I need to vent, or when I just want to chat.
5. I don't care if I go to the store in my sweats, I figure those that matter don't mind and those that mind don't matter.
6. Things are starting to hurt, I hear creaking and snapping when getting up from chairs and I groan when getting out of be. I find myself making choices to not do things that could possibly "hurt" later and then times when I think I am still 25 and do something my body finds offensive, that it takes much longer to recover.
7. My morning face is now my all day face, enough said.
8. I love pink, any thing pink and I don't care what anyone else thinks about it anymore.
9. Partying, no longer are the days of bar hopping, staying up all night and getting up early for work. Now a party is a night out at a friends house for dinner, a drink or maybe even two and home by 11...12 if I'm feeling adventurous.
10. I learned how to truly love, I have kids and a husband that I would die for; above all concerns, worries, needs and desires they will always come first.
2. Telling stories to the kids and using the phrases "way back when" or "when I was a kid". I haven't physically seen it yet but I imagine they are rolling there eyes every time I start a sentence this way.
3. My choice in music is still back in the 80's and 90's, I hear the kids talking about different bands and I have no idea who they are talking about or can't understand why radio stations play certain songs and think wow this is just bad music. (then weeks later find myself singing along)
4. I have a person", which means the same thing as a BFF but much more sophisticated, OK not really but I can pretend. She is an amazing person; she's a wife, a mom, a professional, a student and a runner. She is the person that I look to when I need a laugh and when I need to vent, or when I just want to chat.
5. I don't care if I go to the store in my sweats, I figure those that matter don't mind and those that mind don't matter.
6. Things are starting to hurt, I hear creaking and snapping when getting up from chairs and I groan when getting out of be. I find myself making choices to not do things that could possibly "hurt" later and then times when I think I am still 25 and do something my body finds offensive, that it takes much longer to recover.
7. My morning face is now my all day face, enough said.
8. I love pink, any thing pink and I don't care what anyone else thinks about it anymore.
9. Partying, no longer are the days of bar hopping, staying up all night and getting up early for work. Now a party is a night out at a friends house for dinner, a drink or maybe even two and home by 11...12 if I'm feeling adventurous.
10. I learned how to truly love, I have kids and a husband that I would die for; above all concerns, worries, needs and desires they will always come first.
So there it is, my thoughts on this years birthday and a quick glimpse of my past 40 years.
Here it is, my first baby picture straight out of the baby book.
Yes Missy....I was a cry baby back then too!
Oh, the days of big hair!
Mine and Blaine's High School Home Coming
Blaine home on leave from the Marine Corp.
Wedding Bells!
Exhaustion!
My amazing parents
Me and my sister
(we have matching tattoo's on our backs that I wanted to post but I can't seem to find the flash drive that the picture is one, figures...there's my memory shining again!)
My 'lil' (big) Brother "Pre Sheriff" days
My wonderful family, you can't see grandpa but he was there.
This was his homecoming day.
The kids and I last year at the MN State zoo
My nieces and nephews along with my kids out at Blaine's farm.
(This was such a fun day, they actually posed themselves for me!)
And here we are in our most recent family photo.
Thanks everyone for making my first 40 a memorable one....now on to the next!
I can't wait to see what is in store for me!
Love you all!
