Feeling like an old lady

So I turned the BIG 30 in December. My sweet sister made sure to make my day fun. She treated me to lunch and then watched the kids so Tyler and I could enjoy a date night. We enjoyed a sit-down restaurant with delicious Mexican food and then went to the mall to pick up my birthday cake. We took it back to Heidi's house and the cookie cake did not disappoint. Thank you, Tyler! :)

I didn't have my camera, but my sister fulfilled her familial duties by getting an action shot of me blowing out the candles. I bet that if I went through my mom's pictures back home, I could probably upload a "chipmunk-cheek-cross-eyed-blowing-out-the-candles" shot from every one of our birthdays. That is one classic shot the members of my family always seem to catch. :)

So lately I've been feeling my age (ha!) a bit. Even though I'm barely into the 30s, things just aren't what they used to be.

Here are a few things I've noticed:

1) Now on the exercise machines at the gym, my target heart-rate is at a lower range. Sad that the day before my birthday I still considered myself in the "20 year old" category. I guess I gotta be more gentle on my heart now that I'm in my older years.

2) I bought some "skinny jeans" the other day. Not that I consider myself skinny [to me, that word implies frail and wispy], but that's just the name of these kind of pants. So I heard they are in style or something, and I thought I'd try and be hip and fashionable.

Well, I brought them home and did a fashion show and the verdict was that I looked like I was trying to be a high school-er. Really, I felt so dumb. My 5'4" frame had these jeans all bunched up at the ankles, and they just weren't cute on my 30 year old mom body.

3) It's no secret to my local friends that very often I am caught around town without my makeup on. I usually take Whitney to school or get groceries without makeup and don't think twice about it. But lately while running those errands I have caught a glimpse of myself in the mirrors and nearly have a heart-attack when I see my non-makeup scary face! The circles under my eyes are darker, my eyes are beadier, the wrinkles are more defined, and my face is splotchy.

Don't you love this picture above? No, I haven't started growing hair on my chest since I turned 30. I did a google image search for "no makeup ugly" and this was one of the first images to pop up. I couldn't resist posting it to make my point that I can't NOT wear makeup around town anymore.

And story #4) Tyler got me a cute zip-up Hurley hoodie for Christmas. It was very thoughtful of him. However, he got me a size XL. It was super long in the arms and just not very flattering. Tyler couldn't believe it didn't fit! He explained that the "S" looked way too teeny, so he thought these were girls' sizes (like... for Whitney).

Anyway, so I went to PacSun to return the sweatshirt. When I brought it to the counter the girl said, "Is anything wrong with it?" I said, "No, it was a gift from my husband.......just the wrong size." She looked at the sweatshirt and then back at me and said, "Yeah, isn't this a little too young for you?" I about died. Come on, it's not like I'm a great-grandma or something!! I didn't even have the kids with me for her to know that I was a frumpy old mom! I think I was even wearing makeup too! Stinks to be 30!