Running from the Law: Growing Older But Not Up

Friday, January 11, 2013

Growing Older But Not Up

Today is my birthday.  


As I turn 29 for the fifth time, I have to laugh about how much has changed over the past year.  This time last year if you asked me what I wanted for my birthday, I would have been able to give you a three page single-spaced printed list of all things shiny, sparkly and/or Burberry.  Today, however, I have one thing on my list...sleep.  

Sleep.  Glorious uninterrupted cold-dark-room wonderful feels-like-I'm-dead sleep.  I want to go to bed at 6:30 p.m. and not wake up until noon the next day.  I want to sleep without two dogs pushing me out of bed, without a cat wrapped around my head, without a snoring husband next to me, without a baby monitor on my nightstand.  One night of amazing refreshing energizing fan-fucking-tastic sleep!


However, that would mean getting rid of the baby, the husband, the dogs and the cat for a night and quite frankly, that sounds terrible.  I don't want to spend my birthday without my family.  Birthdays are for celebrating and I want to be surrounded by the ones that matter most to me.  So, this year I can't think of a better way to spend my birthday than a nice evening at home, a glass of champagne in hand, a snuggly baby on my hip, listening to my husband go on and on about fishing, watching Duck Dynasty and trying not to trip over one of the dogs under my feet.  

Maybe this whole growing up thing isn't so bad after all.




(*I will still gladly accept anything sparkly or Burberry.)

29 comments:

  1. ahhh...Happy Birhtday sweet friend! I will be turning 29 for the 2nd time in a few weeks (which is actually the BIG one) and I'm thinking that sounds like the perfect way to celebrate for me as well...of course if there isn't something a little bit more special planned I can guarantee you that there will be some serious silent treatment being given out!

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  2. Happy Birthday! It sounds like its going to be amazing!

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  3. Ha. I second the want of sleep. I kicked the cats out of the room a few months ago because those furry monsters were literally shoving me out of my bed. Happy birthday & enjoy your champagne!

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  4. Happy Birthday!! I Hope you have a fantastic day.

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  5. Happy Birthday! Sounds like a great way to celebrate. Heck, I'll take an hour of extra sleep on the weekends when my husband takes the baby lol.

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  6. Happy Birthday!!!!
    I feel ya 150% on the sleep issue! I dont even beg for a full night just give me 8 solid hours

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  7. Happy birthday, friend! Hope it's the best one yet. :) (And we are totally ready for a play date any time! My schedule is undoubtedly less busy than yours, so just let me know when works for you and I'm sure we can make it happen.)

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  8. You crack me up Sara! Happy fifth-29th birthday!! In my opinion, it sounds like you have perfect plans for YOUR special day =)

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  9. Happy birthday! Hope you at least get an extra hour or two :)

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  10. Happy Birthday!!! It's amazing how much what we want changes so drastically as our families expand. I asked for four hour consecutive sleep for Christmas -- still have not received that from Santa. But 8hrs? 12hrs? I wouldn't know what to do.

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  11. Happy birthday!! I hope you get a good nights sleep soon. ;)

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  12. Happy Birthday Sara! I hope the fifth take of your 29th year is the best one yet! And if you want to spend your birthday with your family, perhaps a stay at a luxurious hotel and spa the day AFTER your birthday is called for? Just a thought Ryan... :) Enjoy your day, friend!

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  13. Happy Happy Birthday Sara.... I hope all your birthday wishes come true :)

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  14. HAPPY Birthday Sara!!! I forgot you were a fellow January baby. Sounds like Ryan should take care of the all the kids furry & human & you should sack out in bed after a few Tylenol PM's. :) Trust me those suckers work wonders. I mean, you'll have the weirdest-acid-trip-dreams ever!! But dayum if those "little blue happy pills" (as they're known in our house) don't work!

    Enjoy your day!!

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  15. You caved to DD!! Isn't it great?! Haha.
    Happy Birthday, beautiful Mama :)

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  16. Happy Birthday! Sounds like a perfect day!

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  17. Happy Birthday Mama! I hope you get that extra sleep and sweet time with your family. You deserve the best of both worlds!

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  18. Happy Birthday!!! I hope you do get some good sleep!! You deserve it supermom!!!

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  19. Happy birthday (one day late)! Hope you got at least a little extra sleep. :)

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  20. Happy birthday my love!! Do you know this is like the first time in two years I haven't been around for your pre or post birthday weekend? WHAT?! I am not ok with this.

    Anyways, I love you. I hope it was fabulous.

    xoxox

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  21. Ahhh Happy Birthday!!! So funny you mention sleep, b/c I would kill for that too! Hubby and I went to the city for a pre-birthday gift last month and I was SO excited to get a great night's sleep in. But of course, I ended up getting sick so I was vomiting half the night OH and I'm still nursing so the other half was spend pumping. All in a foreign hotel room. Did not go well. Eh! ;)

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  22. happy birthday! hope you had a wonderful day with your beautiful family.

    duck dynasty is hilarious.

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  23. Happy Birthday!!! I featured you today on my 13 Blogs to Read in 2013 post! Thanks for always keeping it real :)

    http://kaitybest.blogspot.com/2013/01/13-bloggers-to-read-in-2013-part-two.html

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  24. Happy belated birthday, love! I hope you're celebrating all week (or all month for that matter)! Here's to hoping 29 (5th time or not) is fabulous for you!! Love, love!

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  25. Happy belated birthday. Wish I could give you something sparkly but maybe I can buy you a drink when we meet up (hopefully soon!)!

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  26. Happy belated birthday. I such at keeping up with this stuff! Hope it was great!

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  27. Some how I missed this post- but happy belated birthday!!!! I hope you at least got maybe an extra hour of sleep!!

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