Thirty-Two

That's how old I am folks.  Heading right on into my mid-30's and I'm not even upset about it.  I wanted to be 30 for so long.  I got married young and started having babies youngish so for a long time I felt a lot older than I was.  Most of my friends who are Mom's are all older than me by about 5-6 years and so when I had 3 kids by the age of 28, everyone who met me seemed shocked. People who graduated High School with me are just now starting to have their kids. I definitely grew up a little faster than all of them and I couldn't wait to finally be in the "30's" club.  Now I still feel a lot younger than most of the Mom's at the girls' school, but at least I'm not in my 20's anymore!  The only downside to being a young Mom, is that kids age you very quickly! My 32 year old childless friends have time to worry about their skin, they get to sleep longer, they don't have to rely on goldfish and chicken nuggets in their diets, and their stress levels are exponentially lower.  That means they look 25 while I look 45.  The upside is, when Sully graduates High School, I will only be 47.  When their youngest children graduate High School, they'll all be in their mid-to-upper-50's.  I'd way rather be a young empty-nester than an old one, hahaha!  Shawn and I didn't get much time together before we had Lucy, so it will be nice to have "our time" to travel and live alone while we are still young enough to enjoy it, and not old and crippled!

Cheers to THIRTY TWO!

It was a good, relaxing, stormy birthday. I love a good thunderstorm and that’s what was delivered!⛈I’m also generally not a fan of dessert, but Shawn found 2 tiny slices of cheesecake at the store, just so the kids could help me blow out a few candles🍰😊And last but not least, I got my annual crab with the “secret sauce” so I went to bed one happy lady🦀 We finished the day off snuggling on the couch and watching TV. All of my favorite things wrapped into one day. I’m pretty lucky. Thanks for making me feel like a million bucks everyone. You’re all so kind to me💕💕

Shawn is branching out a bit! He made me the MOST delicious Egg's Benedict for my birthday breakfast! It was SO yummy that I even ate seconds of it for lunch!

 Some women might want diamonds, but this is the kind of the jewelry that makes me heart smile.

 

Lucy was in charge of "taking pictures" of me blowing out my candles.  She really zoomed in there and made sure she literally took the pictures of me blowing out the candles, hahahaha!

Also, Spring Break came and went.  We had beautiful weather and played outside almost every day! As part of my birthday present, I asked for a Dome that the kids could play on.  They spent HOURS on it! Shawn doesn't like how hard it's gonna be to mow the lawn (oops)o, but the kids absolutely love that thing.  It was money well spent!

We also went to a couple of different parks, fed the ducks in our neighborhood (they were even letting Sully pet them!) and did some crafts on the 1 rainy day we had. I am so happy that we had such great weather almost all week! Made for an easy, breezy, relaxing spring break! Best of all, Shawn and I got to sleep in every single day! (Well, the days he was home and not out of town!)

Now we only have 40 days of school left so the countdown has begun!