As I approach thirty I tend to look at things a lot differently than when I was approaching twenty or even twenty five. I feel like that’s probably pretty typical.

Ten years ago (insert wide eyed emoji) I was in college. Kind of. I mean I was enrolled in college but wasn’t the best at attending my 8:00am class. I didn’t know who I was, where I was going and I definitely didn’t know who I wanted to be. I nanny’d a lot, had lots of girls nights and had a puppy. I thought life was stressful, dating was stressful and really liked to sleep.

Five years ago I was a new mama. I was lucky enough to be at home with my sweet baby and loved every second of it. I had found my purpose, was happily married and just starting to learn how to love myself in my own skin. While I still didn’t know what I wanted to be when I grew up, I had definitely made progress in knowing what I did not want to be. I had a new love for iced coffee, losing weight and I still really liked to sleep – though it came much more infrequently. 😉

Now, well…. Now I’m just a couple of months away from turning thirty and I can’t wait. In the last five years we have added another sweet boy to our little family, I’m still at home with the boys, we bought our forever (unless someone comes along and offers us like lots of money) home, adopted some farm babies (a donkey, three goats, a pig, lots of chickens and several dogs), learned that money doesn’t grow on trees and that the less debt you have the better you sleep at night and JKM has started a little side business of trapping critters that we’ve all come to enjoy. Our world is about to change in such a fun way as we start our homeschooling journey and I’m so looking forward to where it’s going to take us.

For the first time in my life and I can truly say I am letting the Lord lead me whole heartedly. If you know me, you know I have a small (big) issue with control. Mostly little things like how the dishwasher should be loaded and the volume on the television. There may be a few others but I’ll spare you the details. 😉 What I’m trying to say is that it’s taken me a full thirty years to…

– Learn to fully lean on Jesus
– Not to sweat the small stuff
– Perfection is highly overrated
– When it comes to friendships quality beats quantity
– There’s an oil for everything
– My mama was right about EVERYTHING (except Bauer)
– You only have to take it one day at a time
– You’ll never regret an “I love you”

I can’t wait to see what the next five years will bring.