I started a bunch of different posts this week about turning thirty five. Yep, yesterday was my thirty-fifth birthday.
I started a post about how our society has a misplaced stigma against aging and how, instead of denying my age, I would prefer to celebrate it. It felt too full of myself.
I started a post about the fact that adults are really just children who owe money*. It felt too juvenile.
I started a post about the wisdom that comes with age and experience and how poignant this is when you're parenting a young adult of your own. It felt too "Young man, turn that music down!"
What I'm feeling right now is grateful. Grateful and content.
I am blessed with the most wonderful family of unique, lovable and challenging men.
I am married to my best friend and soul mate whom, I know, is as committed to making this family work as I am.
I am healthy and able bodied and am more comfortable in my skin than I was twenty years and three babies ago!
I am finding joy in the role of full time mother and an intellectual challenge as I've plunged into the world of blogging.
Quietly content and so very, very grateful. Wishing you a lovely weekend.
* This is not my work but rather one of many awesome lines from a brilliant film called "Peter's Friends" written by Rita Rudner and starring Stephen Fry, Kenneth Branagh and Emma Thompson. If you haven't seen it- Do! Soon!
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