I Feel Like I Am Doing Alot of Catching Up...

So, I originally started the blog as a way to keep a record, so that someday someone could look back on this and maybe think that I did some fun or cool things with my life. I think the only way that is actually going to happen is if I actually write on the blog.

The summer is almost 2/3 over and what have I done? A lot of nothing. Ha! Not really, but some days it feels like it.

I did turn 40. Yikes! Remember when your parents were 40? Well I remember thinking how OLD my parents were, and they were younger than me when I was 13. (In case you don't know, that's how old my girls are, at least for another three weeks or so.)

I am trying to embrace the fact that I have another decade under my belt. How about a look back at some of the highlights of my 30s?

• I became a vegetarian
• I participated in 3 3-Day Breast Cancer Walks
• I ran three marathons
• I ran ten half marathons
• I did four sprint triathlons
• I did one Olympic distance triathlon
• I had 2 knee surgeries
• I had Lasik eye surgery
• I had my appendix removed
• I fell two times while running
• I crashed my bike once, and fell over on my bike once
• I survived elementary and middle school with my girls
• I survived the loss of Lucy, our first four legged baby
• We gained two other four legged babies
• We bought a new house
• We tossed around the idea of having another baby (What were we thinking?)
• My girls decided they no longer wanted to share a bedroom
• We became debt free
• I discovered that indie rock is my music of choice and saw Wilco four times in concert
• I learned how to bake really good chocolate chip cookies
• I learned how to bake and decorate pretty fabulous sugar cookies
• I took a cake decorating class
• I discovered that I love Chicago
• We went on our first cruise
• I had my first, and only, tequila shot (30th birthday)
• Celebrated our 18th wedding anniversary

Well that I all I can think of right now. I don't think that is all I did in the last decade, I sure hope not. I do know that I am not the same person I was when I was 30 and I am proud of who I have become in the last ten years.

Here's to the new decade and all the adventures that are in store for it.