Time

It's lilac time again. It's amazing how quickly time seems to go these days, I know I always heard how time seems to fly by faster the older you get, but sometimes it seems ridiculously fast. How can it almost be May already? My birth month. Here I am just shy of 40 and it just doesn't seem possible. Where did the years go?

I guess I'm finally starting to look my age...or actually even older. We had to do our monthly shopping yesterday and I had a bottle of wine on my list, something I don't buy all that often because it usually takes several months to get through a bottle, but I've been trying to keep one ahead, so we have one to put in the fridge, when we finish a bottle...and we had just finished one this last month, so it was time to buy another. I got up to the register and happened to notice when she scanned the bottle, in between all the other items I was buying, that it popped up a question asking if I was over 40...she punched in a few things on her keyboard and went on...didn't ask me if I was or anything, so she must have told it yes. *giggle* I'm not actually, I'll be 39 on the 19th of May, so I still have another year+ before I reach that magic number, but I guess I'm looking older now.

For the longest time people thought I was quite a few years younger than I was. I remember when I was 21 and DH and I were engaged we went to Worlds of Fun and had someone guess my age, and they were way off...think they guessed 16 or so. Granted they could have been doing that thinking it would make me feel good, but everyone always thought I was younger...and frankly I've never had a problem with being whatever age I am, saying I'm younger just isn't something I ever cared to do. One time a few years ago, I was in my lower 30's, we were out on a window job when the lady who's house we were working on asked if DH was my father...*cough* *sputter* "ummm no he's my husband." *giggle* I was a little embarrassed for her, cause I didn't think DH looked old enough to be my Dad, and I've never thought I looked young enough to be his daughter...he is only 8 years older than I am. Needless to say, I was getting kinda tired of everyone thinking I was so much younger.

So a few years ago, when the first gray hair appeared, I didn't really care...I thought to myself that maybe, just maybe I'll stop being thought of as several years younger than I really was. This past year the gray hair has been moving in fast, not sure just why, maybe that year of high stress is finally catching up with me, or maybe it's just time for it too. Whatever the reason it's no longer something you have to hunt for, it's out there making it's self known to all who see me. Again, I don't really care, I joke about dying my hair, DH says I should go red, I'd love to be blond again (as I got older my hair darkened...except for the hair that has turned gray of course, so now it's hardly blond anymore) but am open to having red hair. However I'm never really serious, dying my hair is just not something I ever really wanted to do, who cares if I am gray, that's just part of life. My Mom says she had gray hair in high school...so having gray hair in my 30's isn't bad at all.

All in all, I'd say the gray hair is working...now I must look my age (or older) because without hesitation the checker must have punched in yes on her keyboard when I was buying that bottle of (cheap) wine yesterday. So I guess it's (the gray hair) a keeper, no more older ladies thinking DH is my Dad, or being told there is no way you can be *whatever age*. Yep I think I can work with it. I wonder how soon I can be mistaken for being old enough for a Senior Citizens Discount, like DH has been!!! *giggle*

I was going to post May's Challenge on Blush ~n~ Dusty today (a day early) but then decided to just ramble instead (lucky you ROFL). I wanted a chance to do a 2nd LO to go beside the one I did for the challenge, so if I do get it done it can be in the same post...so tomorrow I'll post the challenge and LO...LO's if I get a 2nd one finished this evening. :)

Enjoy Digital Scrapbooking day and all the sales! Sorry I won't be having one, however I do plan a small one day one on my birthday so check back! :)

I hope you are all having a good week, we have been busy here, with a funeral on Tuesday and Dr appointments & shopping yesterday. It breaks up my week and makes it hard to get everything done...I didn't even remember it was Thursday today, laundry day...DH had to remind me. (He knows I hate it when I forget.) *giggle* He is so wonderful to me, I don't know how I got to be so lucky as to be given to him as his wife, God is good!

I'll leave you with a spring evening on our farm. Light enough to see the new green leaves just bursting forth, but with the sun going down so the sky is a rosy hue. I walked up to the top of our hill to get this one, so I could get the tops of the trees in our west creek and the rolling hills beyond.