The Last Day of My 30's

So, I am turning 40 tomorrow.  I've been thinking about this for several months now and I have been totally fine with it.... all the way up until I realized that today was the last day of my 30's.  Wow... another decade of my life is gone.  That kinda freaked me out a bit.  But, then I got thinking about my life and where I am at and what is important to me.  I am happy, healthy and beyond blessed.  Age is just a number, so BRING IT ON!!!

My wonderful kids and hubby have been spoiling me all day.  Apparently, when you have a birthday on a weekend, you get to celebrate for more than one day.  I'm cool with that idea!  We went out for lunch and then Josh, Jeff and I saw a movie while Alex and Mattea chilled at home.  After the movie, we picked up Alex and Mattea to go to Mattea's indoor soccer game.  I ended up having to step in for the coach for most of the game which was a learning experience for me, but it turned out well.  The Stars won 4-3 and Mattea had two of the goals!  Woohoo!!!  We heated up some leftover pizza when we got home and then had a cupcake tasting party.  I bought some fancy cupcakes at Bliss since my Mom wasn't here to bake me a cherry chip cake like she did when I was a kid.  Ahhhhh... the memories!  After that, we had a three hour Kinect dance party.  It was SUCH a blast!  Just Dance 3 is a really fun game.  It was so dance with the kids and even more fun to watch the kids dance!  Mattea was having so much fun that she would giggle constantly.  It was hard to take the video since she made me giggle, too.  What a great way to end my 30's!

Letting Go of the Guilt

It's a new year and typically the time to make resolutions, organize, get on a health kick and all that jazz.  Well, I didn't make any resolutions for this year.  I have done some organizing and exercising and that's all good, however, I am taking a different approach to 2012.  As many people in the blogging world are doing, I am going to pick one word for 2012... one thing to focus on and make improvements.  My word for 2012 is GUILT.  I have been feeling rather unsettled lately.  I'm unsettled about many things that I won't go into here, but I finally figured out what to do about it.  I'm going to try to let go of the guilt!  Many of the things that make me feel unsettled are brought on because of guilt.  It's not going to be easy to let it go, but if I can let go even a little bit, it will make me a happier person and much easier to live with!!!

One thing that makes me feel guilty is not posting regularly to the blog.  No one makes me feel guilty about it or teases me about my irregular posting, but I know that some of you look at the blog on a daily basis and it must get annoying when I don't post regularly.  So, that is something that will change for 2012.  I'm going to post more regularly in addition to the weekly pictures I posted for 2011.  I do plan to keep posting pictures regularly (or sporadically as the case may be!), but I have found that putting together those weekly posts takes time and thought and then sometimes when I don't feel like I can get it all done, I don't do it at all.  There are also daily things that happen around here that I would love to share.  That's the kind of stuff I am going to do more regularly.  It's so much easier to just jot down a funny story or something great one of the kids did at school and I'm pretty sure that is the kind of stuff y'all want to hear anyway.  So, I am not going to feel guilty if I fall behind on weekly pictures.  It will help me knowing that I will also be enlightening and humoring you with stories from our crazy life.  : )
Also, I am done feeling guilty about not accomplishing much on my "39 things to do before I turn 40" list.  I am going to acknowledge what I did do and work on what I didn't.  No big deal and no guilt!  Below is a picture of the gallery wall (#6 on my list) that I finally finished.  It's right outside our bedroom and although some of the pictures ended up a little close together (let it go, let it go), I am super happy with the results.  Jeff loves it so much that he picked another wall in the house for me to do another gallery wall!  YAY!  Please note... several of the frames still need pictures added or updated.
Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh... I feel better now.  Thanks for listening!