Age

I've never been one to worry about my age. My mom has always said that birthdays and being one year older is better than the alternative. Such great advice. My mom and dad have never had "age" issues either. I thank them for passing that down. I have been thinking a little more about age lately though...

Daniel and I haven't had a real serious discussion about having more kids. We know we want at least one more baby, but we are in no hurry to have another one anytime soon. My personal time line was something like when Kayla turns 3, we'll start thinking about another baby. Well, after hearing about a few pregnancies lately I asked Daniel when we would try again. Of course, Daniel doesn't think that far into the future and says, "that's for future Daniel and future Melana to figure out!" (gotta love How I Met Your Mother.) So I was doing some figuring and very suddenly realized that I'm 32 already. I SWEAR I thought I was 31 and turning 32 in January 2011. That's the most odd and disappointing feeling in the world! I think we may need to up my time line by a year. During my pregnancy with Kayla my doctor said more than once that she likes her patients to have babies before they turn 35 because once they hit 35 they're automatically categorized as "high risk". I don't need that stress added to my next pregnancy. I've never been disappointed in my age before, until now. Even so, it's not that I'm closer to 33 than 32, but that my biological clock seems to be ticking a little louder. Ugh! Once again I wish Daniel and I had met at least 2 years earlier, but Daniel reminds me that I didn't want to know him 2 years earlier. I'll take his word for it! :)

Age has also been front and center in our finances. Daniel and I took Financial Peace University by Dave Ramsey this spring and are on the road to being debt free. (Once again, I wish we would have figured this stuff out a few years earlier!) As I was doing some figuring though, I realized that by the time we are completely debt free and have our big emergency fund funded, I'll be 37, almost 38! That's odd! 38 is not old at all, but somehow when I still feel like I'm 25, 38 seems old. Do you know what I mean? It will seem even younger once I'm there, I'm sure!

So, age is a funny thing. It is truly something I've never put much thought into, but it sneaks up on a person, in thought and in reality!