52 Weeks: Week 48

Me with my two favorite magazines: More and O. Both have great advice and inspirational stories for women over 40. Both motivate me to "be all I can be" and to make my second adulthood as much fun as my first one. Both inspire me to dream big, to want more out of life, and to "go for it." I love being part of this new generation of women! :)


As my 41st birthday approaches, I want to look back over my first year of my forties and see if it was everything I had hoped it would be. In some ways it was, and in some ways it fell a bit short of my expectations. A quick synopsis: lost weight/gained some back/lost again/gained again/trying to lose again and truly maintain!; graduated with my Masters Degree/ready to begin career/not yet successful with job-hunting; visited Florida and made plans to move/prepared house to sell and put it on the market/made arrangements for our life in Florida/haven't sold the house and haven't moved to Florida yet; achieved all of my old goals and made new ones/began working toward achieving my new goals/made some progress and had some success/didn't complete some goals within the planned time period. All in all, I feel good about what I have accomplished this year. I am proud of myself! On the other hand, I am not exactly where I thought I'd be at this point in my life. I'm close, but not there yet. I won't truly feel successful until I have completed the transition and am living my new life the way I had planned. So I feel good about what I DID do, disappointed about what I didn't do (yet), and excited about what I plan to do in the near future. Soon I will be 41, and I will have 9 more years to make my 40s everything I want them to be. I KNOW I can do it! I am so ready! :)