In This Skin

Since I only have today and tomorrow before we leave on vacation (yea!) I just don't have time to really post - but this one does get my thoughts going!! So I'll take just a few minutes!

I have a little sign near my sink that says, "If you haven't grown up by age 50 you don't have to". It's here on my blog too. I take this as state of mind not a level of maturity!! I do hope that as I breezed past 50 and am knocking on 60's gate that I have a certain maturity that leaves me a little wiser! But there is that other side - the side that has folks wondering if you were ever young! I don't want anyone to wonder that about me!! The inside of me sometimes is taken back by the face in the mirror - a few wrinkles, not such a tight jaw line any more - and we won't even talk about thighs or fanny!! I do not wear bikinis any more. But I still only feel about 30 on the inside! Sometimes I look at some ladies that are my age and up, and I wonder if I look as old to you as they look to me!!

I love to sit on the floor and play with my granddaughter and my granddog! I love ice cream cones and water balloons and taking a hike or riding a bike. I love tennys and jeans and letting the wind mess up my hair. I love to walk fast and swing on the swings at the park. I love to skip. I love to ski and travel, and I don't want to ever hear me say, "Oh, I'm too old for that", unless I am referring to low cut mini skirts and midrift baring tops!! HA!! I want to be one of those folks who has friends in all different age groups and the younger ones won't think of me as OLD!! I love to have FUN!!

We are about to leave on a cruise that will stop in Costa Rica and Hubby and I are going to do a zip-line tour of the rain forest - - and folks, my 82-year old mom wants to do it too!!! You have to climb some stairs and wear a harness that hooks to a cable and you slide along the cable from one platform to the other as you work your way through the tree-tops. I am afraid of heights - but I really don't want to miss this!! She feels the same way - after all, when will this opportunity come again!! So we are doing it with a few other adventureous members of our group. The rest are taking a little less breathless ground tour!

So I use my Mary Kay (It is really good stuff even if you don't care for "the Ladies"!) and watch my weight and excercise and take my vitamins and hopefully when I am 82 I will still be doing all the fun things I want to do too - just like my mom!