MY Birthday!! (a few days late)

When I was a little girl, I thought I knew how things worked (I'm laughing at such juvenille thoughts as I type), girls grew up and married boys, their fathers walked their daughters down the church aisle...and there was an order to things, first came love, then came marriage, and then came an overpriced rediculously complicated baby carriage.

But when I grew up I realized that is not necessarily how things worked. Girls can marry girls, boys can marry boys, people can get married in the Bahamas, and kids can come before love and marriage.

It took me 27 years to figure out who I wanted to be...and what I've learned is it's a choice that you make EVERYDAY about who you want to be and who you want to be it with. I had to learn to appreciate what has happened in my life to bring me to this point and let go of it. And it means to be willing to comit with no guarantees. It means by knowing and accepting my reality, I got that fantasy I had always dreamed of :)

I like this place in our lives. It's nice to have something to be so proud of, and for people to be proud of what I've accomplished.

Thanks for all of the Birthday wishes, it means a lot to know you still remember :)

Love, Love, Love
Paige