Aging

It's really weird when you are in your 30's and you start to realize your age significants. I remember being in my teens and realizing how I was growing and so on, back then, mom and dad were the age I am now. What a trip to think about!

I seem to have it ok so far, as just the other night I was mistaken for being younger than the early 30 year olds. ((knocks on wood)) Hopefully they weren't just being nice! Once in a while I get carded, and I usually take that as an extreme compliment.

When I was younger I never thought I would not know the trendy styles, but as I've matured I realize now how insignificant that sort of thing really is, and how important it is to make my dollar stretch as far as possible. Until this past weekend, I hadn't owned a designer pair of jeans in probably 15 years, and it took my wonderful husband to buy them for me. My jeans are always whatever is on sale at Walmart or JC Penny's, if I'm lucky enough to find something that will fit from that store.

Me at age 3, at probably 34 - 35ish, and aged by the help of a neat little free app for IPhone called Age My Face.

I was hanging out with my sister-in-law the other day, (she's in her early 20's,) and I mentioned the song I woke up to on my Ihome that morning. It happened to be "Hangin' Tough" by the infamous NTKOB, (not a favorite of mine by the way either,) and she tells me, she's heard of them before, but didn't know who they were. *giggles* That made me feel the oldest I've ever felt in my whole almost 37 years. I immediately flashed back to when I was a kid asking my mom who is Donnie and Marie Osmond??

Things just seem to be changing so fast and time is flying by so quickly. I remember my grandparents always saying the same sort of things as I was growing up, and never really understanding them until now. Back in the day, I just thought they were old and needed to get with the times already. Perception matures with age, just as everything else.

Aging really has been a trip for me so far, especially when I think back to what I thought my life would end up like, compared to what it really is now. I'm not exactly where I thought I'd be by this age in life, but I'm learning to forgive myself for not living up to my own expectations. The important thing is I feel that I'm on the right track now and headed toward the life I've always been dreaming of living.