Today I turned 32. If you happen to follow me on Instagram, you’ll know that my day (and mine and Matt’s birthday week in general) did not go exactly as we’d hoped. But rather than talk about all that went laughably not-great this week, let’s talk about how now, at 32, I actually kinda sorta …
As I’ve mentioned before, motherhood has been both everything and nothing like what I thought it would be. Three years ago, literally at the same moment the sun crested the mountains visible through our hospital room window, my daughter came into the world, healthy and pink and with the cutest little cry I’d ever heard …
I’ll admit that most of my birthdays as an adult (with the exception of last year’s big milestone birthday) have been pretty low-key. But even while we didn’t often do much to celebrate the actual day of, it still always FELT like my birthday, or at least like I had gotten another year older. Not …
Today on the 29th, I am 29 years old, making this my “golden birthday.” I am baffled to think that I am almost 30 years old—that just sounds so…mature. *Gulp.* Lately I’ve sometimes been plagued with thoughts that I’m not where I want to be and that because everything is not as I wish it …
Well folks, I’m 28 big ones today. You wanna know how I celebrated? By having to work over 12 hours due to parent-teacher conferences while running on way less sleep than normal. Luckily, although Matt nor I celebrated much for our birthdays this year (his was last week), we have an awesome trip …
I always thought by 27 I’d be totally sophisticated—I’d be a published writer, I would have fully learned to appreciate jazz music, and I’d definitely have learned how to stop leaving my shoes by the front door. While I’m not exactly as chic as I thought I’d be, I figured that for my birthday, I …
When you start to get further into adulthood, one thing becomes painfully clear: Birthdays are not what they once were. Sure, you still do your best to make them special: you wake up early to make a peach tart for your spouse, you litter the bed with chocolates while he’s in the shower, you bake him …
