...and just like that I turn 40 years old. I really can't believe at times that 40 years of "Leslie" has already whizzed by! How did it happen? I can still remember me as a 10 year old excited to be going away to camp in the summer. At 13 I remember vividly waiting for the school bus to take me off to highschool and a big old bird pooping on my favourite new leather jacket! It seems like just yesterday we were camping May 2-4's away at Marble Lake to the music of Steve Miller. Can it really be 20+ years since I graduated highschool and moved away from home to go to college all on my own?
Its funny how time can pass so swiftly - here I am at what I used to consider "old" and I feel anything but old. I feel lucky. I feel inspired. I feel brave. I feel loved. I feel like me, only better - life and experience and AGE make us better. Yes, there are new wrinkles popping up and the grey hairs require a little bit of "coverage" from my fabulous hairdresser, but I still feel like I am evolving and growing up still. I am not perfect and I never will be. That isn't what I'm striving for. I just want to keep living my life with the recognition that each day is a gift. I have many gifts and I don't take any of them for granted. My family is my most prized possession and I cherish my children, my husband and my immediate family more than anything else on earth. I look at them and 40 really feels fabulous. I'm not looking back - I'm looking forward.
Thankful for 40.
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