Thoughts on 30

I have officially been 30 for an entire day now!  I've had mixed thoughts about turning 30, but so far it's been pretty good to me.  Most of my friends are already 30, so I'll still always be younger :)  I don't think of my friends as older, so that must mean that I'm not getting older either!  Ray sent me flowers and a huge balloon boquet at work, so it was pretty obvious that it was my birthday.  Several of my classes of students sang to me, and I was pretty happy when most of them didn't question me when I told them I was turning 21! Ha!

  I don't "feel" 30, even though I don't really know what that means.  Maybe I thought I would feel older hitting this milestone, or maybe that was just because when I would think about being 30 it always seemed pretty far away.  And, in some ways I do "feel" 30.  I'm doing the things that I thought I would be doing, that I wanted to be doing at 30.  I have a job, a husband, a house, and a kid.  Considering that those were my main goals by 30, I know that I am very lucky. 

A few times recentlly, I've thought, "Am I too old for...." Like, am I too old to shop in the juniors section, or to rock out to teeny-bopper music?  I also feel kind of old when I talk about being in college OVER ten years ago, or reminiscing about my high school days. Wow, those years really creep up on you.

I also have thought about how much has changed in those 10 years, and how I am different now than I was at 20.  At 20, I was thinking about where I would get a job, when I would get married, and when I would have kids. I wonder about what life will be like in another 10, 20, or 30 years. 


I'm looking forward to celebrating this weekend, and I am hoping to do some serious picture up-loading!  Until then, here are a few of my favorites from a few weeks ago!