Forty by 40
A week ago, I celebrated my 39th birthday. Some days I look back on the life I have lived and feel very blessed and complete. Many days (like today when I spent the whole day cleaning out my pantry while jamming to 90s music and getting way too excited over my label-maker...), I feel like I'm hurtling toward middle age and the peak of my millennial mom moments. Most days, I feel like my life is only just beginning, and that I can't possibly be an adult with a real grown-up job and the responsibility for others' lives. I suppose that's where many of us fall as we near our 5th decade in life. Although I am grateful for where my life has taken me up to this point, I wanted to take this year before I turn forty to evaluate my goals and stop sitting passively while I let life pass by, thinking I'll have time to accomplish my goals "later." Life is happening now, and to celebrate that fact, I have created a list of things I hope to accomplish in the next ...