Birthdays and New Goals...maybe??

So we are currently in the "Birthday Countdown" in my house.  Once Christmas is over, Hailey knows that her birthday is literally just around the corner.  And let me tell you, that "corner" is exactly 69 days long after Christmas and this year with it being a leap year...it's 70.  Constantly I hearing about what Hailey wants for her birthday and what she wants to do and then I'm figuring out in my head how I can make some kind of version that she wants to actually happen.  This year Hailey will be turning the big 6!  And around when I was 5 or 6 this is when I remember birthday parties at my house.  Cousins and the neighbor kids would come over for the afternoon of games and gifts and cake and seriously....they were the best birthdays ever!  Nowadays though, it seems like birthdays have become this HUGE thing and where doing "normal" party games and having cake/ice cream just isn't enough for some reason.  So I always really try to stay somewhere in the middle.  You will never catch me paying $300 to have a birthday party at some blowup house where you get the room for 30 minutes to open gifts and quickly eat cake and then the kids can play to their hearts content for a few hours.  I'll just take Hailey and a few of her friends for $7 each some Sunday afternoon.  Maybe Hailey is deprived but whatever....I'd say she's pretty darn lucky for what I'm able to provide for her as a single mom.  And guess what....she won't be getting a car for her birthday at 16 either!  AHH!  ha! 

So anyways....thinking about birthdays made me think of mine.  My birthday is in Aprl and I will be turning 29 this year.  And even though I do not feel 29 physically, mentally I would say I feel 32ish...bu the fact that in less than 1 1/2 years I'll be able to say I'm 3-0...it's like a milestone in my life.  I'm starting to feel like I need to reach some kind of goal by the time I get to that point in my life. 

Have my 20s been great...ehh...Hailey was the best thing about my 20s and the confidence and strength that I've found in myself has what I've found in my 20s and slowly digging myself out of the mistakes I've made in my 20s.  I want to live up my 30s.  Not exactly sure how or what I feel I need to do but I'm pondering it.  So we will see what happens.  I'm kind of thinking about making this blog about more than just Hailey and myself but also about myself in general, not just as Hailey's mom Sarah.  So who knows!  Stay tune...things could get interesting!  : )