What Real Life 40 Actually Looks Like!

Man…Today was my HILL moment! And it just seemed far too plain and lovely. I didn’t feel the climb at all. So that must mean that I am in better 4-0 year old shape than I originally thought, eh?

No. Really. Today was the day that I was having a super hard time approaching. I know—many are in the club. Many say it’s the best time in life. Many have many things to say.

But this day for me was a VERY reflective day.

My life. It’s halfway. I am at the marker.

Yes. Technically with the genes that run in my family, I may live to be 100. God willing. But I may not. And, so, as I approached this day, I did so with great reflection of every day—every year—and every moment that led up to this moment. The first half of my life…

It’s a big deal to know that you have accomplished a milestone such as the First Half of Your Life.

My daughter asked me if I felt any older today. I said, “No. I still feel 18.”

And she laughed and said when she turned a decade (this is how old she calls herself) she still, also, felt only 9.

That’s the thing. I don’t feel the 4-0. When I was pregnant just a couple years ago…I felt the 9-0—but, not pregnant, I feel rather GREAT. And yet I still must pause and actually realize that I am at a HUGE point in my life. A point that says, “You have completed half of your life…Now, the question is, what are you going to do with the rest of it?”

It’s making me REALLY think hard!

Yes. A four-door-jeep would be my mid-life crisis car…So I hope to have one of those one day.

I am not a cougar—nor do I ever want to “TRAIN” another husband. Therefore, I’ll keep the hottie that is the better half of this blog’s title 😉 (Oh—and I believe in God’s gift of marriage—therefore, I shall stick with working it out with the one that I got 😉 😉 😉 ).

We are finally in the process of owning our very own FIRST home in our married life. 15 years in. That is a huge woot-woot from our side of the world.

And I am tied up and not expecting any more storks to come by—so my first half of life completed any NEW life that might pop right out of me.

So where do I go from here?

My friends…up!

Looking up.

You know—although I am a bit freaked about forty (no matter how great you tell me it is), I pray with my entire heart that as I travel through each new day on my new side of the mountain, that I will always look up.

God has carried me, dragged me, and walked next to me for the first 40—and I am so thankful. I can’t imagine the new path without my same hiking companion.

So, where do I go from here?????

Anywhere He directs me to go.

And I look forward to that adventure!

God bless your side of the mountain, no matter which side that may be.

Always,

Oh, yeah…Enjoy my REAL day of 40 with my messy kids and lumberjack husband that built me just the BEST 40th birthday present a girl could hope for—a tennis wall!

Breakfast and Coffee…my husband knows the way to my heart!!!

His day off is Tuesday every week. Happy for me that my birthday fell on a Tuesday this year! He spent the entire day making my tennis wall outside. I love my lumberjack—he knows me so well!!!!

4-0 year old me!

Messy kids running around in underwear holding signs that say “Lordy Lordy Brookie Cookie’s 40!”

Max orchestrated the entire cake: not owie, Barbie mermaid, yummy pink frosting, and taste testing throughout!

This is what a 3-yr-old’s Barbie cake looks like for his mommy’s birthday!

Get it? 40!

My 5-Star birthday dinner by my hubs! Including homemade stuffed mushrooms with Brie cheese!

This love missed the entire party. But she is so cute it doesn’t matter!

And this love insisted on taking his Daddy shopping so I could have a special robot present for my big day. Needless to say, I have not been able to play with it much 😉