why yes you can see my ID

So earlier this weekend I was baking cupcakes for my son’s party and listening to the Buc’s game with my husband (because I’m an awesome wife… and I have my own fantasy football team) when the guest commentator, who happened to be Urban Meyer said something that I just couldn’t stop thinking about. He was talking about the rookie players, since that’s what pre-season games are all about, and he said that he had a different mindset at 25 then at 40, and even a different one from 40 to 51 (which was his current age). Now I get that he was talking about injuries and perception of being invincible when you are young… but to me that seems like a no brainer. Of course you have a different mindset from your 20’s… you aren’t even the same person!

I often tell my husband despite of all flaws that he might like to pinpoint in me, he still married me and he knew what I was like… but I wonder if that’s really a fair statement. He married the almost 23 year old girl that still had Converse left over from high school (still do actually) and used to love nothing more than to hang with friends and shop, watch movies and lay out by the pool… today he is married to a 30 year old woman who is obsessed with eye cream and now only gets to hang with friends when they bring their kids and then mine are distracted enough to let me have a few minutes of adult time. That 23 year old is still there (she’s just buried under stretch marks) but my priorities have changed and so have I… so you would think he would cut me some freaking slack on the eye cream! Even as flattering as it is to be carded out in public sometimes (or at Target even though they make everyone) sometimes in the back of my mind makes me wonder if I acted a certain way to make someone think I was that young… but most of the time I just tell myself the eye cream is doing it’s job and move on. I have no desire to act, dress or pretend to be an age I’m not. I’ve learned my lessons this far and I wouldn’t change any of them good or bad, they make up who I am today. I hope by the time I’m 51 I’ll look back on my 30’s and still be happy with the lessons I’ve learned and the person I have become… and I REALLY hope my husband comes to terms with my awesomeness because I’m pretty sure that like a fine wine I’m only going to get better with age… and he is in for it J