I'd like to introduce myself!

I've been kicking this idea around in my head for awhile now. Coming up with reasons not to do it. Feeling scared! All those things you face when you are about to jump into something that might be successful, or might not. BUT it's finally time I do this and get these ideas out there. Get them to where readers can see. Where they can chat and focus on those those Midlife demands, or the ever changing focus of our lives. I am a 38 year old mother of SIX! Who stays home most of the time, and runs a mini little photography business on the side. In my twenties I thought I could conquer the world. I had huge plans for my future, and eyes that didn't see what was ahead. I look back at that very young nieve girl and wonder what was she thinking. At one point I had a good friend tell me something that changed my perspective just a little. She was turning 30 years old. In your twenties 30 is like never going to happen. She told me something that really stuck with me and made growing up seem just a little less horrifying.

She told me, "I am so excited to be 30! I don't ever want to go back to being in my twenties again. I have learned so much over the last decade of my life. I had struggles through my twenties and ZERO money. Turning 30 is going to be the best year of my life."

I never thought for even two seconds how amazing it would be growing older??? You start to know stuff, and the things you did in your twenties, that weren't so great, you kinda learned to master. So 30 rolled around for me, and guess what I found that having that perspective made looking at getting old well FUN!

I've been in my thirties for 8 years now and ya know what I don't want to go back to my twenties. Even if my boobs looked better or I could run just a little farther. I've been through so much that has made me grow as a person. I've learned I'm resilient, and strong and can change things that I am not so great at. Even more importantly I have learned that I am not in charge. I have a Father in Heaven who knows what is best for me. He has thrown curves at me that seemed impossible to hit at times. But he never left me to figure it out on my own. He stood by me and gave the tools that I needed to learn, to adapt and to change. He humbled me over and over again. He brought me to my knees just so I could ask for help back up, and ya know what I got back up.

So here I am rapidly approaching 40. I have a few more wrinkles, a few more pounds but a whole lot more know how. I hope you'll stick around and glean a little inspiration from these pages. I hope to share them with new beautiful faces that will share their own insights on how the world has made them better at 40! I hope to share some crazy insight of the mess I make of mothering. And even a few life changing thoughts. Stick around, and follow along, My midlife crisis is slowly sharing its beautiful head..

Hello!! I'm Sarah!! It's nice to meet you!