It's your Birthday? Your Older- Don't Cry!

It was April 7th 2000 and I was celebrating my birthday, a day late with my family.  As I was blowing out my candles, I felt what I thought to be a labor pain!  My family laughed, your not due for another three weeks!  But then an hour later there was another one, they continued every hour until 3am, I insisted on going to the hospital!  My sister held my hand through the painful contractions, I swore if I lived through it, I would name my first born after her! 

After all that, around 10am my doctor said the contractions stopped, they were just false contractions and I could go home!  "What! These were not false contractions! I am not going home! I know I am having this baby today!"  He said "Your not having this baby for a long time."

As my husband and in-laws walked me back to the car, my water broke!  I went back upstairs, and had my daughter an hour later!  False labor pains, my a**!

Happy Birthday to my beautiful baby girl!  She is now 11 years old and alot has changed.  It is hard to believe so much time has gone bye! I wish sometimes life could just slow down for a minute! What makes things even harder is I am getting older too! 

I just celebrated my birthday also and I am now approaching my mid-forties! Yikes!  I don't mind as much as society does!  Everywhere I look, everytime I turn on my computer, T.V. or look at a magazine, advertisements for wrinkle cream, botox. liposuction! Why can't wrinkles be beautiful!  Why do we live in such a youth obssessed society!  Why does  every women I know feel bad about getting older and talk about their recent trip to the doctor for botox! It is so ridiculous how much this society puts on looks and so little importance on a persons character! 

For all of us women who are getting a little older, our looks might fade, but our intelligence, experience, and inner beauty gets more beautiful as we age! I feel more beautiful today than I ever did in my 20's, I wish society could see that I am more beautiful now then I was then.  We need as a society to start finding experience, age, wrinkles, as a sign of beauty also and stop fearing getting older! It's inevitable!  We are all going to get old!  If we are lucky!!!

Steph