Age is just a number

Today I turn 36 and I'm having a little bit of a hard time realizing I'm closer to 40 than to 30. I always thought when I turned 30 I would have to lock myself away in a dark room and spend about a week crying but I had just gotten married weeks before so I was a happy newlywed and could have cared less that I had entered my 30's.
And then I thought when I turned 35. Yikes 35 .....that just sounds so old. But I was weeks away from having my precious baby and I could not have been happier.

And this year? Well - in my head I'm 25. I look in the mirror lately and I see wrinkles and gray hair and a face that isn't as young as it used to be (probably mostly to a LOT of laying out in my 20's) and I should be sad. But this year has been the BEST year I have ever had. I am so blessed I can barely understand it. Every dream I ever had has come true and MORE! I could not have dreamed the things that have happened to me this year. And I'm okay with 36.

When I was in my 20's - I was VERY insecure. I worried so much about how I looked or what people thought of me. I have found in my 30's I am worrying a lot more about what God thinks of me. I worry a lot more about what other people are going through than I do about how much the scale said this morning. I'm thankful God has changed my perspective. I'm thankful for each day I have.
And let's face it - I would rather be 36 than this awkward 13 year old EVER again!!! Can I get an amen? All I can say when I see this picture is "Bless your sweet heart 13 year old Kelly". Awkward was my middle name. (Still is).

If you want to see more horrid pictures of me and get a good laugh ......you can venture over to my mom's blog where there are some pictures only a mother could love. ha!

Your eyes saw my unformed body.
All the days ordained for me
were written in your book
before one of them came to be. Psalm 139:16

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