I Had a Moment

So I had one of those moments in my life where I couldn't believe what I was saying and what it meant. I have talked about the revelation in my life late at night when I couldn't believe that I was a mom of two kids. This was one of those moments.

Last week I bamboozled my Dad into having dinner at Red Lobster. If you know my Dad very well, you know this is not his favorite place to eat. He tolerates it, but he would prefer to eat somewhere else. I achieved this task by asking him what he was doing on Saturday night. He said nothing but watching the KU game. I then told him to clear his calendar because I wanted to go out and eat on my birthday. He said that was great, and then he said, "Where are we going?" I then had to inform him that we were indeed headed to Red Lobster. Since it was my birthday dinner, he didn't say a word about preferring to go else where.

We were all not feeling well and tired on Saturday, so we went on Sunday. On the way back I told him how I thought it was funny that no more that 10 years ago, I thought it was just crazy to even think about being almost 30. I couldn't believe how fast time had gone, and I sure couldn't believe that I was about to reach 30.

Then it hit me. I'm really almost 30. I don't think I feel like I thought I would. I don't know exactly what that feeling was, but I just knew something would be different...I'd be old. Now I am going to change "old" to something more like 80 :p I wanted to go high because I don't want to keep changing it. However, how can I be 30 already. I have been living for 30 years? Even as I am typing this, I can't believe it. It seems like so much time (30 years), and yet I feel like life has flown by.

I can now say that anyone that is around the same age is NOT old. I asked my sister if we could changed the standard of old to another age. She told me no. My guess is that she will say no, call me next year and tell me how old I am, and the next September she will change the age.

There have been so many times this year that I have had these revelations. I did once with the kids, for my birthday, and then because this summer will be 10 years out of high school. I've been out for 10 years? Only old people go to their 10 year reunion. :)