My thoughts on turning 30

My husband waited at he top of the stairs. I asked why? He said he needed to say good-night(as we part ways so myself and the girls don't breath in the fresh smell of paint from the babies room). He continued, "because tomorrow you will never be he same again." Deep down that sounded like a dream come true-like tomorrow I will magically arrive in this life. But truthfully we both know that tomorrow will come and go and I will be the same old me, but instead of being 29, I will be 30! I looked at Ryan and said, can you believe you met me when I was 19? I can still clearly remember having my 20th birthday party after my college hockey game-dinner at the nearby steak house with my parents and boyfriend Ryan of three weeks. My mom and dad had bought me a nice watch-TIME! Wow-ten years-that goes fast, and yet a lot has happened in ten years. Many new experiences, fulfill dreams I still hadn't even dreamed at age 20, some things and many people have even came and left my life all in that 10 years. So I then said to Ryan "If those ten years came and left so fast, what about the next? Suddenly 40 doesn't seem so far away!" His response left me dead in my tracks, "just think Juleah will be a teenager in 10 years!" Now that is alarming! Maybe it is the everydayness of being a stay at home mom, hardly ever leaving her side-not knowing more than a few days without her constant presence in 4 years, I have accepted that she is old enough for Awana Cubbies and notice daily that she is growing like a weed, but the thought that my first baby I still remember holding the night she came home from the hospital might actually become a teenager-shocking! So it is starting to all make sense-why is it that my Grandma Larson can so quickly and easily say "This too shall pass." If I can hardly comprehend how life has so come and gone in ten years (not to mention 30) and I can only kinda anticipate what God willing the next ten might bring-then surely my 79 year old Grandma has experienced enough to confidently say in times of challenge and tribulation "This too shall pass." And right now that is what I need to tell myself-no-I won't sleep in the living room with my two girls forever, and the snow may eventually melt! This baby Lord willing will eventually come out of my body on the very minute God has already ordained. Someday I won't own two houses, and some day we will tell stories and laugh of having three car seats in the back seat of my 4 door car. Someday the decision to home school or not will be a life reality and not a question, and someday I will no longer produce babies or milk. Looking back at ten overall great years of my life, with a few life lessons under my belt. I can look forward and confidently remind myself these light and momentary afflictions will someday pass. Turning 30-scary? No-bring it on!