Oh 30, we finally meet!

I would like to say the thought of turning 30 was painful and hard to fathom.  In some ways it was and some ways it wasn't.  I look back over the last 30 years of my life and ecspecially the last 3 years and realize how lucky I am to see thirty.  They have not been easy.  They've been full of up's and down's, decisions that would affect the rest of my life.  Decisions that will affect the person that I eventually marry and whether or not they will want to marry me.  The last 2 years of my twenties involved the excitement over my sister’s 1st pregnancy, the loss of my sister and brother-in-law's first child, the death of a Papa 7 weeks later, the announcment of my sisters 2nd pregnancy, and 7 weeks later finding out that a hysterectomy was in my near future.  At the end of October 2010 I gave up a very vital part of me on an operating table and it's taken the end of 2010 and the majority of 2011 to find healing from that. 

To say that God has made life a little rocky would be an understatement but those obstacles of life he has lead me through are what have made me the person I am today.  I give with all I have and love with all I have even more.  I'll always been drawn to those in need and less fortunate.  I don’t think I’ll ever learn the word no and I would take in every orphan that has been brought across my path if I could.  God has made me "me" and love him with all my being. 

I can't wait to see what the next era of my life brings.  I gladly close the door on my 20's to welcome what my 30's hold for me.  Celebrating my birthday in Chicao with my 2 best friends definitly made it a little easier.  Nothing like a little Ghiradelli Cookie Bottom Sundae at midnight to close

out another year of life!

Time and tide wait for no man, but time always stands still for a woman of thirty.

- Robert Frost

 

The only time you really live fully is from thirty to sixty. The young are slaves to dreams; the old servants of regrets. Only the middle-aged have all their five senses in the keeping of their wits.

- Hervey Allen

 

At twenty years of age, the will reigns; at thirty, the wit; and at forty, the judgment.

- Benjamin Franklin