Yes, this was my birthday week! And yes, I turned 40! I remember my Mom being 40 and I thought she was old! I don't know what happened, but I don't feel old!
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Anyways, despite my protests that I just wanted it to be quiet, I landed up having three parties and three cakes. That definately doesn't happen every year, so heh, I guess you just need to embrace it and go with the flow. My husband was really wonderful about ensuring that he made a big deal about it. We won't tell anyone that 2 years ago he positively forgot about it altogether and even invited out of town friends over and guess who was the one who served them then!
Ahem! I digress!
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Thoughts about 40? Hmm they might be too many!
30 years ago I was in grade 5 and had a crush on Tommy! It was my first year in a new school called Neil Campbell. I never kissed him but wanted too. I kissed my first boy in grade 4 but didn't like him or the kiss. Just wanted to know what all the hype was about. The Bee Gees have several #1 hits in 1979.
25 years ago I was entering grade 10 at huge public high school. It was a huge shock with over 1200 students. I think those were survival years. Really, who goes through high school unaffected? It was 1984 and Michael Jackson was making waves.
20 years ago I was 20 and in a bible college in the middle of the prairies. I went for 4 years and received a Bachelor of Christian Education. Madonna and Sean Penn divorce in 1989.
15 years ago I was 25! I was engaged, finished college, working as a nanny and planning a wedding for March of '95.
10 years ago I was 30. My husband and I had moved 2700 kms 3 years previously. I was working at a small local airline. I did various jobs from reception to inventory to AP and AR. I was pregnant for most of 30th year with our first girl. It was 1999 and tons of people were worried about Y2K.
5 years ago! Wow that doesn't seem very long ago! I turn 35 and am 4 months pregnant with our youngest daughter. We move to a new house when I am 6 months. It was my husband's busy season and I single-handedly packed the entire house and garage. By the time I have unpacked the new house I have a baby girl! Lance Armstrong wins his 6th Tour de France.
4 years ago (2005) my oldest started kindergarden and the company my husband was working for closes it doors. We start our own business. I get a job doing payables and receivables.
3 years ago (2006) I have one child in grade one, one in preschool and a toddler. Life is busy! My parents come for Christmas and I am re-introduced to knitting.
2 years ago (2007) I start kickboxing and homeschooling. Really there is no coorelation! No more diapers or cribs. Someone falls through our cieling while shingling the roof (no joke his feet were hanging in the family room!)
Last year (2008) We travel to Hawaii for holidays, two nephews work for us in the same year, my brother and his daughter come for their very first visit! I start this blog!
2009 my brain is tired from remembering! I think that I want to live life less worrying about others and more being true to myself and who God made me to be. I want to enjoy the small moments of joy that children bring, the things that would be past over if they didn't make us stop and really see.
Who can resist dressing up a little girl? I sure can't! Life doesn't get much more fun than that...being transported into another play world for just a few hours.
No worries at all, not a single solitary one.
Okay on second thought, she was quite excited about the possibility of goody bags!
