Aging Sucks
My Mum and stepfather came by today. It had been a few weeks since they'd last seen Jake and Abby and I think that my Mum was going through withdrawl. She can't stand not seeing them and makes it pretty obvious when she calls that it's them that she's coming to see.
"I was thinking about coming over on Sunday to see the kids," she says.
"Sure. No problem. We'll be here." Then I ask in a half-jokey kind of way: "But I'm your daughter. Don't you want to see me too?"
"Oh, of course," she says. Yeah right! It's the grandkids all the way.
With my 35th birthday only 5 days away, I had a feeling that my Mum would show up with something for me. She never forgets and she's always very generous. As with previous years, she did not disappoint. She brought me a new shirt and a wad of cash. I'll have to think about what to get with it. How exciting!
But as she was leaving, she gave me a hug and wished me a happy birthday. Then she commented about how she couldn't believe that she had a daughter of 35 and how it made her feel old. And that was when it struck me: I'll be 35 years old. Time flies and I'm nearing 40 a little bit faster than I'd like to. Isn't there some way of slowing this train down!?? I felt a momentary panic and quickly pushed it out of my head.
My motto in life has always been "Don't worry about the things you can't change" and it is definitely apt when it comes to aging. We all do it and the best we can do to slow it is to invest in a good moisturizer.
