Aging

We just celebrated my husband's 59th birthday this weekend. Only one more year before my husband is in his 60's. WOW! That sounds old, even to me. I don't know how gracefully I will enter into my 60's. I have three years before that happens, but as I have said repeatedly, time passes so quickly, it will be here before I know it.

Just last night, we were talking about how old our dogs are. He said they are 15. Impossible. That would mean that we got them BEFORE we moved to Alabama for 10 years. We didn't get them in Virginia, we got them in Alabama. We moved to Alabama in 1994. We had a dog from the devil (Beagle Bailey--another story for another time) for 10 months and then we got Sophie the year Aubrey was born, and that same year, they got Maddie (our other dog--she used to belong to my daughter). Aubrey was born in 1995. I can't seem to get him to fathom that fact. It is quite annoying to me, it seems like it would be easier for him to remember that however old Aubrey is is how old those dogs are. He just doesn't seem to believe me. I know that I am right. That should be enough for me, but sometimes, it doesn't seem enough to just know that you are right.

Anyway, birthdays are fun when you are younger. Have you ever thought of this...When you are young, you always want people to think you are older than you are (I'm 4 and a half -- I'm almost 16 -- I'll be 21 in a few months)...When you are middle aged, you want people to think you look younger than you really are (Go ahead, guess how old I am -- No, really, I am 37, I have a 16 year old child. Yes, I am so a grandma -- I have 2 grandchildren.)...And, then, when you get really old, you want people to know how old you really are again (Guess how old I am -- No really, I will be 90 years old in 3 years). It is a cycle that never ends. It is when we realize that people believe we really are how old we are that it is not fun anymore. We just want to be younger looking than our age, act younger than we really are, have people mistake our age for being younger, and then live long enough to be able to say, "Do you have any idea how old I really am?" It is just funny to me.