On a Personal Note : Happy May!

It’s officially May! My birthday is tomorrow and I turn 45 tomorrow. In so many ways, I don’t feel 45 at all. In my brain, I feel mid-20s or early 30s. In my body, I feel, well, closer to 45. I look at pictures of myself around 2020, and even into 2021, and I can’t decide if the pandemic sped up the aging process for me, or if it’s just the way it goes after 40. I went to a wine event with two of my friends yesterday, and will be celebrating with my family this week.

Unfortunately, this week is beyond busy as is this season of life for me. Tomorrow is my oldest son’s district golf tournament and I’m sad to report I have a work meeting at noon that I can’t get out of? Or maybe I could have? I don’t know, I feel so overwhelmed with everything, and everything is in flux at all times, so I am living minute to minute and struggling to plan anything too far in advance.

We are prepping to have family in town next month for his graduation party, and I’m overwhelmed with getting the house ready. It is NOT the largest house and we do a lot of living in a small amount of space, which makes it hard for me to keep clean and clutter free. Plus, we have been trying to move the remainder of our things from Arkansas, so it’s a constant state of organizing and re-organizing.

Thankfully, we are close to selling our previous home (we’ve owned two since 2021), and I’m starting to feel hopeful we might soon only own one home. I don’t think myself or my partner realized how much owning that house was weighing on us, but with it going on the market next week, I am feeling hopeful it will sell quick and we can release that part of our life. (Just in time to start paying for college?? lol)

I would like to blog a little more specifically about my family and children, but am trying to figure out how to balance that with maintaining their privacy! While I am figuring that out, thank you for reading, and I shall post about planning a golf-themed grad party soon. In other news, my daughter won a trophy at her mathlete competition AND decided to have her first tentative relationship, and my third grader presented a stellar science fair project on his bearded dragon’s food preferences. Midlife is wild.