Mom's 40th birthday

 It's 4-0.

On Nov. 3 2020.

Turning 40. Nov 3, election year, in the year 2020. If the world doesn't end today, I will be eternally grateful, I survived this year.

If the world does end today, please know I loved you more than you know. I kid. Kinda.

But in all seriousness, your dad said that we would just pretend I am not turning 40 today and remain 39 to celebrate it next year, when our world maybe, (hopefully) isn't in quite a tailspin. I think that's a golden idea. I can totally do 39 again! And I truly believe we all deserve a good do-over year after this one.

No, but really. I have so much to be thankful for. When I was 17 and preparing to graduate from High School I wrote that my "future plans were marriage, one child, and to be a successful teacher, travel, and live a happy life."

At 39, I have accomplished all of these things and on levels that at my then age 17, had no idea what was in store. I was married at age 20 to my sweetheart since I was 16, we joined the military and traveled the world, we had you (now age 12) and I became a successful teacher of yoga, and I most certainly am filled with gratitude each day of this beautiful life and for all the amazing souls that have enriched my journey. I have traveled to somewhere between 30-40 countries (I've lost count). I have seen countless cultures and experienced things that should be written in a book (and maybe one day they will be... probably this one;). Happy is an understatement to this life.

I wonder what you will say when you are 17?  I wonder what you will be thinking when you turn 40?  

This year, no matter what happens today, or in the future; remember you are the maker of your own creation. You are worthy of a joyful life. But is in your own heart where happiness truly lies. When you exude happiness, happiness finds you.

Destin FL