The BIG 3 0

I guess I’m ready to face my own birthday finally. First I’ll start by saying how nice all my celebrations were. Besides our trip to VA compliments of Melody and Jeff, and our Broadway tickets compliments of the Browns, Ken & Diana (and some beautiful fall flowers from Ken & Diana); Kris and Wendy got me a beautiful sapphire and diamond necklace and my mom got me a somewhat matching sapphire and diamond ring that I can’t wait to get re sized and start wearing. I also have 2 beautiful yellow mum plants that I was surprised with from some $$ that Grandma Nancy sent in from CO.
Nate took me out to dinner Saturday night to a nice restaurant…. (The funny part of the evening was that we were kinda rushed through the meal and wanted to take advantage of Grandma Melody, so we had over an hour to kill before we got home in plenty of time to put Max to bed…. So we did some birthday party shopping and got Max the cutest dragon Halloween costume. All dressed up, stuffed from dinner- and errand running, which goes much smoother just the 2 of us!). Sunday my mom made a great birthday dinner for us all. And then for my birthday the boys made me French toast for breakfast and then chicken parm for dinner! Apparently I have another gift from them on its way too….. so it was a VERY nice birthday!

But now I’m just old…no longer a “kid”, “girl”, or “miss”. I’m not sure why it bothers me since I’m probably the oldest 30 year old that I know, but there’s just something about that number. Even 40 doesn’t seem bad (I think of the 30's and 40's about the same for some reason). But all in all, God has been very good these 30 years. I have wonderful family and friends, a good part time job in my field, a beautiful home, loving husband, most adorable son ever and of course and you can’t forget the mini van…. While I sometimes I wish I wasn’t so, I think my practicality really has paid off or I don’t think I’d be where I am. I know the next 30 years will probably be just as different and exciting as the first 30 and I do look forward them and just hope that I always remember to take time to enjoy the moment. God only put us on this earth for such a short time so all we can do is live for Him and live each day to the fullest.