Happy Birthday to Me!

So today is my 28th birthday! I am thanking God that I am yet to yank the dreaded gray hair from my head! I don't feel any older, but am amazed that I am a mom of three, a wife, and a grown up.... a true grown up!

It's funny how birthdays change the older you get. I remember being a kid, and all I could think of was what kind of cake I wanted, what an AWESOME slumber party I would have, and the birthday gift list was miles long. Then came the milestones. Getting my drivers license, and scaring the ever loving poo poo out of my parents as I drove off for the first time alone. Then there is the infamous 21st birthday... need I say more. At 25 I got a break in my car insurance rates, that was nice. Now here I am, 28 years old. My greatest accomplishment is raising my three girls thus far, and keeping them alive, healthy and happy! They are my gifts. They beat all of the milestones of years past, and now my greatest joy is in watching them reach there own milestones. Every day that God blesses me and lets me hang on and enjoy my girls is the greatest present that I could have or ever ask for. The icing on my big birthday cake, is that I get to do this all with the best guy a girl could ask for.

The moral of this 28th Birthday story is, even though I am spending the day cleaning house, folding laundry, changing diapers and all of the usual... I am doing it with a happier heart. God has given me another year to love on my babies, Seth, and enjoy his plans for our little family.... and what great plans he has.