Happy Birthday to ME!!

Okay, so it's not my birthday, but its close enough to count!

This year I can honestly say for the first time that I feel older. (Probably look it too, but that's just a whole different post!)  But I think that the whole feeling older thing can be traced directly back to the lack of sleep discussed in my previous post.

Remember what it was like when Birthdays just rocked.  A whole day devoted to the wonderfulness of you!  Mom makes your favorite dinner, Dad assembles whatever 10,000 piece toy you simply had to have.  And you and your friends get to wreck havoc on the house for a full 24 hour period.  

Ahhhh those were the days!  (I say this from the perspective of the parent whose child is not yet old enough to wreck said havoc)

Back then, your birthday was something to look forward to.  Because it seemed that every birthday brought with it new and amazing privileges that were unthinkable the year before.  A little more freedom, a little more responsibility.  

think about it:

1st B-Day - You get to WALK.  Way cooler than waiting for someone to take you where you want to go.

5th B-Day - Ge to go to school! A huge goal of mine.  That is until I realized that I didn't get to go with my sister.

8th B-Day - Some

where around here I graduated to the front seat.  But that might have been because Jana went to college and not due to an age thing.

14 - Permit

16 - License

18 - Vote 

21 - Drink

24 - Rent a Car

and then.....well, nothing!

Now your just marking the years until you can apply for AARP.

It's really kind of anti-climatic.

So that's where I sit.  A twenty something with nothing better to do than watch the big 3-0 creep closer and closer with every passing year.  yea~!~

I did get a pretty great birthday present this year though, cause look who I got to spend it with!

I will say one thing though.  The older you get the better you get 

at making your birthday last as loooooooong as possible. At this point I have Adam convinced that I OWN the entire month of February.

He still only gets a day.  As he should.

I miss my Ambien!!!!

Well my friends tonight is a huge mile stone for my little family.  My wonderful beautiful sweet daughter is officially sleeping through her very first night.  And she is doing it with gusto!  You see I put this child to bed last evening at around 8:30 (two hours earlier than usual) and she is still powering through 8 hours later.  

Did you do the math yet?  

Yep, it's 4:30 in the morning right now.  Which means that even though my child is sleeping, I'M NOT!!!!

It seems that my body was so excited to get 6 straight hours that it woke up and can't be convinced that it's still way way dark outside.  

All I could do was lay there and listen to the quite contented breathing of my husband and child.  Really it's enough to make me want to punch him.  After all, why should he get to enjoy this while I can't?

But I resisted the urge and got up to do some work.  After all, there is nothing that induces a sleepy state like trying to hit a deadline.  Trust me, I can always think of things to do so that I don't have to sit down and actually WORK.

Like posting on my Blog at 4;42 AM.  

Ahhh, the life of a procrastinator is wonderful isn't it!

And Last but Not Least!

Well, when it comes to the rest of my oh so tech savvy buds, I think that I am a surprisingly late bloomer when it comes to the whole blogging thing. 

 But, never fear, I'm here now!  

And, though the curve might be steep, I think that I'm up to the challenge.  After all, I have some of the sweetest subject matter in the world to keep me inspired!

It's she cute!  

Yeah, I know I'm one of those sappy new moms that thinks their baby is just the greatest thing in the world.  

But see, the difference here is that she is, and you know it, so just learn to like it!