heyMamas: Age ain't nothing but a number

Sometimes when I stop and think about it, I can't even believe that I am closer to forty than thirty. Where does the time go?

As I mentioned on my birthday, although I genuinely enjoy aging there are some physical manifestations that are not easy to embrace.

What I do like and embrace with ease is the confidence that comes with the passing of another year. The not caring what other people think. Knowing and actually believing that everything happens for a reason and what happens usually ends up being better than you expected. Learning to let go of pleasing others and focusing on pleasing yourself and your family.

But there are also those moments of aging that just really suck. Like when you can't sit indian style on the floor and play with your kids for more than five minutes if you are not a yogi and you would like to be able to walk for the rest of the day. Or if you do brave sitting indian style on the floor for an extended period of time, the fact that you may need a hand to lift you up so you don't have to rock back and forth to gain a little momentum to get up on your own. Or perhaps figuring out the hard way that you can not work out and then ON TOP of that play a game of tennis or do a cartwheel while trying to teach your kids gymnastics without throwing your back out.

Those are the parts that are hard to accept.

My greatest hope as I continue to move forward in life is that I don't turn into someone who can't take loud music, or kids yelling and having fun.

Oh wait, sort of already there.

I suppose I will have to settle for not turning into someone who doesn't like cool music or who starts to dress the same way as my husband does on the weekends.

When I look ahead at what I would like to become, the things that flood my mind are to be a strong powerful women for my girls to look at and be proud that I am their Mother, to be a patient and understanding wife {which I TOTALLY ALREADY AM}, but most of all, I want to laugh.

One hearty belly laugh, every. single. day. for the rest of my birthday's.

That's all I really want.

And I think I know just the three people who can deliver that in spades....