My Birthday

Happy 30th Birthday to me!! At first I was really depressed about turning 30, because man let's face it--that's old! I have a lot of great memories from being in my twenties. I met the love of my life (David) and was lucky enough to have married him. I finished graduate school. I started my "first" out of college job as an Extension Educator. Our son was born in 2005 and we were blessed with our daughter in 2007. I have enjoyed being in my twenties as the memories are great. I kept telling myself, family, and friends that I would actually be celebrating my first anniversary of turning 29 (see I didn't actually have to say 30!). But the more I thought about things, why would I want to stay 29? I went through a lot this past year. In January, I had surgery to remove my gallbladder. In May, I suffered and survived kidney stones (passing those nasty stones a few days before I would have had surgery to remove them and the surgery they suggested did not sound pleasant). And in November, I suffered a miscarriage and lost our baby. So I plan on holding my head up and embrace being 30 and hope that many, many good things come my direction. I thought I would share a picture of how I am handling being "30". It's my blog so just roll with it!

Dave and the kids surprised me with a dozen beautiful carnations sitting in a vase on our kitchen table when I came home from work. They also gave me a beautiful string of chocolate pearls with matching earrings! But the sweetest thing they left me was a note.

By the way, Benjamin kept telling me that it was not my birthday. I asked how come it was not my birthday and he told me that he took it away!