This is what I look like today, on my 32nd birthday:
I have been feeling unusually introspective on this birthday. Maybe it’s because I’m pregnant, or maybe it’s because I’m getting older and realizing that this is my life, right here. It’s up to me to plan it, dream it, live it. Otherwise, the days will slip through my fingers and I will wonder where they all went, how I got this far and didn’t notice.
So, who do I want to be? What’s important to me? If I didn’t have this house, these kids, this husband, this job, would I still be the same person? What do I need to do before I die so that I can consider my life well lived? No one’s going to tell me the answers, and how I feel today may not be how I feel tomorrow.
My personal resolutions for this year are to birth another baby, play with Hannah a lot, and spend more time with my husband. And along the way, I’m going to search out some truth. I will never have another 32nd birthday, so there’s no better time to chart my course. There’s also no better time to have a second piece of birthday cake, and so that will be my first step. Cake, then personal enlightenment. It’s a great plan, don’t you think?
I like how you think Amber….cake is always a great kick start to enlightenment.
Many excellent things start with cake.