Holy Mother Of Pearl!!!! According to my countdown app...only 42 more days until I turn 50! How did this happen??? How did I go from a teenage girl who thought she was all that, to a woman about to turn 50?
Fifty is stressful...first thing they want you to do is make you get a colonoscopy, swish your boobs and tell you how fat you are. I even scheduled my physical for the morning of my birthday. I can't wait to see how that goes...ugh. Not that I have a feeling of doom, more the feeling of my life is likely more than half over...how can that be? I have not done all the things I wanted to do in my life yet!
It makes me reflect on all I have done too...I have raised two wonderful young men, by the time my birthday gets here I will be Grammy to three grandbabies, I have been married almost 27 years to a man I still adore, I survived losing my mom and continue to have a special relationship with my dad.
Writing that statement above just made me pause...I keep thinking about what I want to do...own a home, travel, see orca in their own environment. When, instead I should be thinking about what I have done...home is wherever Lee is, I have camped steps away from bear poop, and I did not see orca on a recent whale watching trip, but I did see a humpback calf rise itself out of the water and breach!
I want to take the year ahead and fill it with 50 special moments...starting with this one. I am writing this entry from a pullout on the side of the road...on one of my favorite drives...it's the one I drive every Monday to pick up MJ and Ros. It's a spot I think is beautiful no matter the weather. I am gonna share my moment with you...
Here we go...bring it on 50!!! I am not afraid!
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