Yesterday, I turned 40. Forty. Vierzig. Quarante. Empat Puluh. Frankly, I don’t care if I turned 50 yesterday. I just love being myself, being a mom to a rambunctious 6 years old, being a wife to the coolest and genius husband, being a daughter to the world’s greatest mom/parents in-law, being a sister to wonderful siblings/cousins, being a sister-in-law to the in-laws, being a niece to understanding aunts/uncles, being an aunt to cute entertaining nephews/nieces and being a friend to beautiful people, regardless what my age is.

Here’s looking forward to more decades!

If you dread turning 40, don’t. Here are some quotes randomly picked from the internet for you to ponder and smile at:

At age 20, we worry about what others think of us. At 40, we don’t care what they think of us. At 60, we discover they haven’t been thinking of us at all. ~ Ann Landers

I’m not 40, I’m eighteen with 22 years experience. ~ Author Unknown

The first forty years of life give us the text: the next thirty supply the commentary. ~ Arthur Schopenhauer

At twenty years of age, the will reigns; at thirty, the wit; and at forty, the judgment. ~ Benjamin Franklin

Forty is the old age of youth; fifty is the youth of old age. ~ French Proverb

Life begins at forty. ~ W B Pitkin