What Now????????

Wow turning 40 wasn't so bad....surprise visits from too long of a distance best friends, parties, bonfires, incredible gifts......but now what?

It's like Monday arrived and everyone forgot that I am the center of the universe!!

It's back to "Mom, I need three dollars for more clay for my Egyptian pyramid." "Didn't they already take care of building the pyramid? ..Do I look like Pharaoh?"

"Mom I have to be at the gym by 4:00 for practice...I am supposed to bring five dollars for the coaches gift"....gift for what?....... Seeing to it that I haven't seen my 14 year old daughter for more than hour a day, unless I'm paying admission to watch her play?

"Mom I can't find my backpack.... why didn't you sign my weekly informer"....I'm like I didn't sign it because I haven't seen it.....where is it? "MooooooooooooM it's in my backpack, that's why I need you to find it!" "Well, Honey why isn't it hanging on your hook where it belongs?" "I just didn't have time with all your birthday stuff this weekend to hang it there!!"

This was just a very tiny sampling of what I mean about being booted from the center ring! I have no clue where to go from here?

I think this whole forty thing has been completely blown out of proportion!! I look in the mirror and nothing has changed!! I am still driving a mini van...no red sports car for me! I am still totally ADD....no new and improved works like it is supposed to brain! I am still working...no note from my boss letting me know that I was so dynamic as an employee in my thirties, I won't have to work anymore they will just send me checks anyway! I am still a taxi service....not one brilliant techy has figured out that whole "beam me up Scotty thing" outside the tv.

But what is even scarier than all of those things........I am so struggling with this mid-life crisis thing!! I mean I am not sure how to do it!! I still wake up totally mesmerized every day at the amazing way God works in our lives!! I still love being a wife and mom!! I love sitting around the very large dinner table with the eight of us and whoever happens to be over and hear about every ones day! I love throwing the football with the guys in the yard, I love dancing around singing (very badly..that didn't change either) with my little ones! I love the quiet of night before bed when everyone is slowing down and we can just be!

I know to be true to all the 40 year olds out there....... I am supposed to feel old and miserable.... but other than the fact that my weekend of leisure is over... I am very happy with my relatively crazy life!

Keep Smiling :)