Turning 31

It just occurred to me that i will be turning 31 very soon. It seems like time has come and gone in warp speed. There are no set milestones at 31, just another number. The sand in the hour glass doesn't slow down as you hoped it would. So i reflect back on all the "big milestones", regardless of how ridiculous they may seem.

At 15, I was so excited to be having my Quinceanera. It's a rite of passage from childhood to womanhood in the Latin culture. I didn't care what significance it had, just happy to be with friends and family, any excuse to party.

At 18, I thought I knew it all, i was suddenly given the right to vote, serve my country, and the privilege to purchase both pornographic material and tobacco products. Yet there is not set age to be a mommy. Age limit or not, that was me 18 and head of a household.

At 21, there are two more privileges bestowed upon us. Those privileges are the right to purchase and consume alcohol in a public setting and the right to legally gamble wherever it is allowed. While i couldn't partake in consumption of alcohol since i was pregnant yet again with baby #2, I can tell you that i did my part with the lottery. LOL

When i turned 25, I was already married for a few years (5) to be exact.. But it felt like a lifetime and finally finished with the baby making factory. Lol, I definitely knew it all by now. I took full advantage of everything I thought I was entitled to. I thought I won the jackpot when all of a sudden; rental car companies had a burst of new confidence in my ability to drive their cars. I could drive a rental car without having to pay a larger amount of the money due to being under twenty five. What Crock?

From the time I turned twenty-one right up until I actually turned thirty. I was in crisis mode, not sure what to expect. I was expecting something like the Y2K bug. Everything would just fall apart. When that obviously didn't happen, dinner and drinks with the family was a great way to spend it and i wouldn't change a thing.

So here I am not quite sure how i feel about turning 31. I'm not upset nor am i looking forward to it. I really do feel like I'm getting better with age. I have a better sense of who I am and what I want out of life than I did in my 20's. I think our 30's are when we get to sort out all the hard lessons learned in our 20's and apply them. All the good stuff i suppose.

Happy Birthday to me..