I have less than a month until I turn the big 40! I've decided to embrace this new decade of life. My dh has been asking for awhile if I wanted to have a small party with family and friends and for a long time I wasn't too sure I wanted to face this birthday. I'm not much of a party for me type of gal. But since I've come to terms with 40....we are going to have a party and I'm going to look forward to what the fabulous 40's is going to bring! I feel having friends and family around to celebrate bringing in this new decade of life will be nice. My dh is sooooo sweet! I can't love him enough.
The one change I am looking forward to in my 40's is my new career as an earl.y child.hood teacher(my dh did encourage this). I'm still in awe that I am finishing one class tonight and in August I'm finishing my very last class. It's a good feeling to be so close to be being done. I've been getting a little anxious about the studen.t teachin.g but I know in my heart it will all be good (I'm officially registered!). This is God's plan and when you follow His plan...all will be good. God is good!
If somewhere along the way God lets me know plans have changed....so be it. I'm okay with that. But for now..full speed ahead on plan A.
Looking back...when I turned 30...I was a crying mess. I was dating my dh at the time. He gave me a beautiful pair of earrings for my bday and my parents sent us on a lunch cruise on Lake Michigan. It was so awesome to spend the day with my now dh downtown Ch.icago...it was a very windy day so the lunch cruise was okay...I do get motion sickness. We enjoyed the day anyways. Little did I know that soon after my 30th bday...my dh decided he wanted to marry me and he put a down payment on my engagement ring. It was all paid off by Christmas when he officially proposed. I didn't embrace 30. I look back and feel the decade brought about a lot of good things(marrying my dh) but I also had to deal with IF and the growing fear I wasn't going to be a mother as I had planned. Boy, there was a lot of pain. I may still carry some of that fear into my 40's. It is what it is. But through IF, my dh and I got closer to God..our faith...and each other...we opened up to adoption....I decided to go back to school to become a teacher....and many other things...so it was good. God has given me/us strength.
So...onto the next decade....and more possibilities! I'm going to work on my fears....and I'm going to keep looking forward!
Many blessings to you all!!!!
Great attitude. I hope 40 is the beginning of some good things!!
ReplyDeleteWelcome to the club! Forty is fabulous!
ReplyDeleteI hear 40 is the new 30!!!
ReplyDeleteI know what you mean. I turned 30 in March and it was hard. It was a mile-marker for me with the infertility.
ReplyDeleteHappy early birth-month!!!
Wonderful attitude. I hope your 40s are blessed.
ReplyDeleteForty is great, and forty-three ain't bad, either. ;) I love your attitude!
ReplyDeleteI hope your 40's are Awesome! :)
ReplyDeleteEmbrace the new decade, Lady!
ReplyDeleteI was talking to my friend, M (early 40s, single, no kids). I was such a big baby when I turned 30 and she was talking about that. She said 30 was bad for her too because she wasn’t where she thought she would be, but after that she threw out the rules and her “timeline.” Her 40th was such a freeing b’day for her. She just got a stronger voice, felt more confident in herself, was proud of the changes (career and volunteering) she had taken on just before. I just loved her attitude and I love yours.
Thanks for all the sweet and uplifting comments. I'm going to work hard at looking forward and being positive! God is so good! I trust in Him!!!
ReplyDelete40 is the new 30, or so I've been told! I'm certain that the new decade will bring you many blessings!
ReplyDeleteSorry, kind of late to the party...but let me say - YOU GO GIRL! I love the attitude and have been trying to focus more on what I have vs. what I don't. This is a great reminder! Have a great last month of you 30s, but I am EXCITED about this next generation as well!
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