{"id":28491,"date":"2017-09-19T01:58:36","date_gmt":"2017-09-19T01:58:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wonderoak.com\/?p=28491"},"modified":"2018-03-26T20:58:00","modified_gmt":"2018-03-26T20:58:00","slug":"so-this-is-my-thirties","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wonderoak.com\/2017\/09\/19\/so-this-is-my-thirties\/","title":{"rendered":"So this is my thirties"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last night, I was tucking the girls in and my four year old reached up and touched my face, &#8220;You are young,&#8221; she said, &#8220;but you do have those lines by your eyes.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>This is my thirties.<\/p>\n<p>I am still young-ish, but I do have the lines around my eyes. Dammit.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll tell you what else I have&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><strong>Hair.<\/strong> Hair is sprouting everywhere you guys. I&#8217;m getting a new chin hair per month. Pretty soon I&#8217;m going to have a better beard than my husband. What once was a small crop of pube-overgrowth has turned into a wooly mammoth situation. I have to shave my thighs now. AS IF I DIDN&#8217;T ALREADY HAVE ENOUGH GOING ON IN MY LIFE.<\/p>\n<p><strong>A hangover after one Mike&#8217;s.<\/strong> Dear young ones, yes, this is a thing. Groggy, headache, zero motivation&#8230;the results of a lot less poor choices than you might think. Nope. Just one, singular, alcohol flavored Koolaid I found at the bottom of my parents&#8217; ice chest.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Saggy boobs.<\/strong> I am guessing that this is because I grew behemoth nursing breasts. Normally I am a size A on a good day, so a DDD was a lot for the little ladies to handle. Now we have a deflated birthday balloon situation. It is every bit as sad as it sounds. My body is a memorial of \u00a0better times and wasted dreams. Luckily my months of boob-glory also included crying infants, bras that smelled of spoiled milk, and mastitis&#8230;just to balance out my overwhelming sex appeal.<\/p>\n<p>My friends and I are looking for a Groupon for boob jobs; let me know if you hear of anything.<\/p>\n<p><b>I am forced to make healthy\u00a0choices.<\/b>\u00a0Sometimes it is truly a tragedy. For example, this gluten-free, dairy-free, egg-free bar thing. I bought this out of a case full of croissants. I try to tell myself it tastes good, but it doesn&#8217;t. It tastes like glue with raisins in it. The reason I do this is because my body is weird now. I am old enough to get heartburn like my Grandpa you guys; we both have to sit up in our recliners for awhile after a spicy meal.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"28680\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/wonderoak.com\/img_3663\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/wonderoak.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/IMG_3663.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"1224,1033\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;2.2&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;iPhone 6&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1505737426&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;4.15&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;400&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.066666666666667&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"IMG_3663\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/wonderoak.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/IMG_3663-300x253.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/wonderoak.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/IMG_3663-1024x864.jpg\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-28680\" src=\"https:\/\/wonderoak.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/IMG_3663.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_3663.jpg\" width=\"1224\" height=\"1033\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wonderoak.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/IMG_3663.jpg 1224w, https:\/\/wonderoak.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/IMG_3663-600x506.jpg 600w, https:\/\/wonderoak.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/IMG_3663-300x253.jpg 300w, https:\/\/wonderoak.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/IMG_3663-768x648.jpg 768w, https:\/\/wonderoak.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/IMG_3663-1024x864.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/wonderoak.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/IMG_3663-592x500.jpg 592w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1224px) 100vw, 1224px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Pee in my pants.\u00a0<\/strong>Kids, that was a great game of Crack the Egg on the trampoline, but mom has to go inside now.<\/p>\n<p>MOM PEED HER PANTS OKAY LET IT GO.<\/p>\n<p><strong>I&#8217;m too old to go to the Olympics for anything<\/strong>, unless maybe I become a phenomenal marksman. The other day I saw my high school career teacher. We reminisced about the good old days when I took a &#8220;job test&#8221; in her class. The test said I should be an FBI agent. We nodded in solidarity as we realized together that this was never going to happen for me. She said I&#8217;d probably be good at catching my kids doing bad things in high school though. So there&#8217;s that.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Being called Ma&#8217;am<\/strong> by the 16-year-old cashier makes me want to ask if it&#8217;s okay to call them Satan.<\/p>\n<p>Nothing compares to the time I went to get froyo with my friends (two of whom were visibly pregnant) and the boy at the counter kept referring to them as &#8220;my girls&#8221;. Finally I was like, &#8220;Um. Do you think they&#8217;re my daughters?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Yes. Is that offensive?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>No, but I am going to go home and swim away in a river of tears, right after I burn this dress that I&#8217;m wearing.<\/p>\n<p><strong>I realized what high school math was for<\/strong>.\u00a0My third grader&#8217;s homework, that&#8217;s what. Life has come back to laugh in my face because it only gets worse from here. I became a mother and a writer SPECIFICALLY TO PROVE TO MY CHEMISTRY TEACHER THAT I DIDN&#8217;T NEED TO KNOW PERIODIC TABLES.<\/p>\n<p>Touche&#8217; Mr. E., Touche&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sleeping on a crappy mattress<\/strong>\u00a0does the exact same thing to my body as what one might expect from falling down several staircases or participating in the Cross Fit Games.<\/p>\n<p><strong>I will do and wear whatever I want.<\/strong>\u00a0Do you guys remember when that article came out about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rantnow.com\/2014\/10\/24\/20-things-women-should-stop-wearing-after-age-30\/#slide_2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">what not to wear after 30<\/a>? I will wear sparkly pants, with big sunglasses, AND, a graphic tee IF I WANT TO. That is probably NOT what I want to do though, in case you were wondering. Probably I just want to keep wearing these yoga pants&#8230;the point is, I&#8217;m in my thirties and I do what I want.<\/p>\n<p>I do have the lines around my eyes&#8230;but I do what I want.<\/p>\n<p>For more like this you can follow me here, on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/wonderoak\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Facebook<\/a>, and on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/wonderoakblog\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Instagram<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>*<\/p>\n<p>Feature photo by\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbowden.com\/about\/\">C. Bowden Photography<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last night, I was tucking the girls in and my four year old reached up and touched my face, &#8220;You are young,&#8221; she said, &#8220;but you do have those lines by your eyes.&#8221; This is my thirties. I am still young-ish, but I do have the lines around my eyes. Dammit. 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