My Birthday Ramblings.

Today. Is. My. 34th. Birthday. In honor of this day, I will do a birthday rambling instead of a mom rambling.

1. It's kind of a bittersweet day. It often gets lost with the start of fall and the first days of school. It also gets lost because my fantastic first born has a birthday the day after. Which makes labor day ever single year a fun time for us!


2. I don't love getting older, but I've learned to embrace my age. I actually never want to be much younger. Well, maybe I want the body of younger...not younger me though! Younger someone that had a better body than me! Because I'm actually happy with the body I have now. It's better than the younger me body. Stronger. It's been through more. It knows what it can do. (I mean, I did birth three children. Two sans drugs! What can I say, I'm proud of that!) 

3. I'm learning to love my crow's feet (they are there!) and the wrinkle between my eye brows. And I'm learning to pluck my gray hairs (or cover them, whatev). I'm embracing my old lady hand veins. (They look just like my mom's did!)

4. I'm also learning that with age I have no patience for ignorance and I'm starting to actually take a stand on issues instead of sitting on the fence through life.


5. I listen to NPR. Holy crap.

6. I read Reader's Digest. Holy crap.


7. I wear tennis shoes with jeans.

8. I still get pimples. (I'm NOT okay with that!)


9. I have a little pouch that won't go away no matter how much I run and only gets bigger when I eat a whole jar of cake frosting (Not that I do that.)


10.I say "I want" and "I need" a lot. That's annoying.


11. I'm trying to simplify what we have. And teach my boys the difference between wanting things, and needing things. Ha. I'm trying to teach myself as well.


12. I wish it would rain.


13. I want another baby.


14. I need to wash my hair.


15. I'm back running and it feels good. Can't wait to train for something again.

16. Tom keeps asking me what I'm going to do when the kids go to school all day. I keep thinking, "holy crap - what AM I going to do?" I have no idea. Take a shower, I guess.


17. I wish I had more to say.


18. This is what my living room looks like right now:

Are you kidding me?! Get a maid!

19. I wish I had a maid.


20. And a chef. To cook me only healthy meals. And cookies. And pie. And cake. 


21. I never want to be 21 again.


22. I loved being 22. 


23. I'm done. Thank you all for reading and following and being my "blogging friends". Keep laughing with me or at me, either one. Keep crying with me. And I'll just try and keep up.