I turn another year older this week and instead of lamenting on the fact that it may be time for the dreaded reading glasses I have decided to look at the positive. You’ve Come A Long Way Baby…
There were a few things I could do in my 20’s that I can’t do now, but I think there are more things I can do now that I couldn’t (or didn’t want to) in my 20’s. So here we go……
1-Cook an awesome meal (and by awesome I mean not Ramen noodles)
2-Drink a cup of black coffee
3- Be upfront with people without the fear of rejection
4-Have a healthy relationship – (what was I thinking? was I thinking? good grief!)
5-understand GRACE (I LOVE this one!)
6-Go out without make up on
7-Go to the OB-GYN -and joke and laugh (kids have a way of taking care of that)
8-Go to a movie, out to eat or stay at home by myself (without the lights and the TV on all night)
9-Speak to a group of strangers
10-Buy better quality wine and much less of it.
11-Read a book from beginning to end (I still read the last chapter first)
12-Break into song and dance at the grocery store (oh wait I did that in my 20’s – just have the added enjoyment of embarrassing my kids)
13-Say “I love you” and understand what it means
14-Stand up for myself and be accountable to myself
15-Build a killer fire and bait my own hook
16.Accept a Compliment
17-Disassemble and clean my own gun (though the need for those reading glasses to do it is becoming more apparent)
18-Avoid the Drama (it has taken me 40 years to achieve this one and all I can say is GLORY, GLORY, GLORY-HALLELUJAH!)
19-Come to terms with the realization that I am not going to be Cher when I grow up. *I’m only a little disillusioned (gypsies, tramps and thieves….. *you didn’t think I could make it through an entire post without the LCD kicking in did you?)
20-ANSWER TO THE NAME: MOM (THE VERY BEST THING!)
“They say we’re young and we don’t know
We won’t find out until we grow
Well I don’t know if all that’s true
‘Cause you got me, and baby I got you ” ~ Sonny and Cher
A Blessed Life with A side of Real 