Well, today is my birthday. It is funny how birthdays change as you get older. As a child, I used to love my birthday and couldn't wait to be one year older, now, I dread my birthday and I wish I could be one year younger!! I think that as I've gotten older my birthday is just another reminder that another year has passed and I am getting older. I don't feel older though, in fact I still feel like a kid sometimes. I still find myself thinking about what I am going to be when I grow up. Some days I just don't feel old enough to have a 10 year old son and three other munchkins younger than him. It seems like it was just yesterday that I was babysitting someonelse's children and now I am taking care of four of my own! Where has the time gone?
Life seems so much faster and more complicated now than it did ten years ago. I think the whole adult and parent responsibility thing sneaks up on you. One day your free and life is at your feet and then suddenly your old and you have four kids and you are responsible for them.
Don't get me wrong though, I wouldn't change a thing. I think that there are very few people in this world who can honestly say that where they are in life now is where they thought that they would be when they were a child. When I was a child I thought that I would be a doctor by the time I was 30. I thought that I would have two children a boy and a girl and have the house with the white picket fence. But instead, I have four wild boys and a small white house with no picket fence. But that is okay because I love my simple life and my goofy boys. Plus, not only am I another year older, I should be another year wiser, too. Right!?
