Tag: getting older

A Month of Gratitude 2024: Day 30

Two more sleeps until 2024 is over.  What a year it has been!  I am very excited to see what 2025 holds though. 

I got a call to say that my son has shingles this afternoon.  His poor grandparents were up with him most of last night, but thankfully, he is feeling a lot better already. I am so grateful that it wasn’t anything more serious. It’s always such a shock when he gets sick as he has an excellent immune system.  The doctors don’t know us that well because they hardly ever see us. 😂

I am also counting down to my fifty-second birthday on the seventh.   I sometimes sit and think about how old my mum seemed to feel once she hit her fifties.  That was the norm for her generation, though.  I am very very grateful that I get to enjoy my fifties inspired by the generation ahead of me.  Celebrities like Halle Berry and Viola Davis who are turning what it means to be getting older on it’s head.  I love that social media is filled with women who are over forty, who are embracing their age and looking fabulous.  Some are launching modelling careers in their fifties and sixties!  It is so cool to be older now.  I am blessed!

That’s it from me today.  Thanks for popping by. I hope you have had a great day.

Bye for now

Ageing Gracefully

At least that is what I tell myself😜. Today’s prompt requires that I write about my favourite part of myself. Well. Since I have done quite a bit of soul searching over the course of this month, I think I will stick to the physical today. In which case, my favourite part of myself right now is my grey hair!

Embracing my greys

I made a choice to embrace my greys about 2 months ago and I am so glad I did. It felt like a weight was taken off my shoulders. God decided that I would start sprouting greys in my twenties. I was having none of that. If He had blessed me with a ‘distinguished’ grey patch in the front like my mum had I might have considered it but noooo…He decided that mine would sprout up at random. So I made box colour my friend instead. (I don’t have the patience to sit in a salon every month and have my hair done). Such has been my life for the past 20 years.

In November my cousin became a gran for the 1st time. She is 4 months older than me. While my son is only 13, and will in all likelihood not make a gran for at least another 10 years (fingers crossed), it was a milestone that made me take a look in the mirror and ask myself who I was kidding. I am getting older (never old though, just older. There is a difference. 🤣) and I need to embrace it. With people dying at younger and younger ages thanks to covid, I decided it was a blessing to be the age I am and it’s time to embrace it. For me, the symbol of my ageing is my grey hair so I embraced it.

I don’t know about you but I find that once I make a decision to accept something, especially something that I have been dreading, I find that I actually like whatever it is. Does that happen to you too? It happened when I became a non-smoker. It happened when I began intermittent fasting and now when I chose to accept my hair. I no longer look at myself in the mirror in horror. Now I give myself a big broad grin every morning and blow myself a kiss because, gosh darn it, I deserve it. 🌷