My 30

30 Lessons I have learned in 30 years......

1. To eat and drink on my own.

2. To use the bathroom. YAH me!!!

3. There are things you can only tell your best friend. I so remember all the nights spent with Erica talking till the wee hours of the night about our deepest darkest thoughts and secrets.........while thinking the ceiling fan in the hallway was a witch.

What I wouldn't give for 1 of those nights.

4. All those people that I tried so hard to impress in school don't mean a thing to me now.

5. Boys......I wish that I had spent more time with my girlfriends then fretting about stupid boys who never mattered. I should have listened to my mother.

6. High school is meant to be spent with friends and not on boys. I have rarely seen a high school romance blossom into lasting love. (My relationship with my husband is definitely not the norm.)Girls.....don't waste your time.....spend it with your girlfriends. You will never regret that. True love will hit you when you least expect it.

7. Seek to know Christ above all else. Not to just know his name, but to know who he is.

8. When looking for a husband, search for a man that seeks Christ above all else.

9. Wait for the man who melts your heart, and makes you weak in the knees. One that treats you right and will love you through thick and thin. Because those days will come.

10. Know that LoVe, the good kind of LoVe is a choice. Those happy, heart melting feelings will fade. You have to choose to love them daily. Some days are easier then others.

11. Listen when the Holy Spirit speaks to you.

12. The decision to have kids shouldn't be made on the feelings of wanting a baby. Babies grow into kids. Kids are hard. Decisions for kids are tough ones to make. But trust that the Lord will lead you to make the right decisions.

13. Enjoy your babies. Even though you have hard....really hard days, know that those days pass so quickly. You will blink and they will have grown. I should have listened to my MIL.

14. Love your Husband. Let him know that you appreciate all that he does for you. Even the smallest most insignificant thing is appreciated.

15. Love your children. Let them know how much you love them.

LoVe = TiMe

Giving your time is hard.

16. Put your family 1st. This one can be hard. Really hard at times. Put its worth it in the end.

17. Spend time in God's word daily. This is a choice you make every single day. But the word of God is the breath of life.

18. Hard times will come. It's not because we are being punished for something, they just come because that's life. If you stay in the word of God, the hard times seem less......hard.

19. In-laws......I think I am still learning this 1.

20. Friends. You need them. They will let you know when you are normal and when you are nuts.

21. Friends will change through the years. Find the ones that will last through the hard times, and keep them.

They will be the ones to know when you need them to sit with you into the wee hours of the early morning when your baby is laying in a hospital bed. They won't ask, they will just do.

22. Make time for those friends.

23. Find what you love to do and do it with all your heart.

24. Happiness is determined by your happenings. Search for joy, not happiness. True Joy comes from Christ. And will last through the hard times.

25. Parenting is hard. Our mothers aren't perfect and neither are we. Try to do your best and the leave the rest up to God.

26. Taming the tongue is a lot harder to do then it sounds. But never give up on it.

27. Never put yourself above others.

28. Don't be fake or judgemental. People will be able to tell and won't like you.

29. What goes around comes around. The sooner you learn this the better. This will make treating others well easier.

30. Life goes so much smoother when you realize that God is in control of all. Even when you are in a terrible accident or your house has been broken into 4 times. He is your protector and nothing happens without him knowing.

Here's and extra 1.

31. God's timing is perfect. There is a time for everything. For life and for death. Trust him.

1 more just for fun....

32. What you wear doesn't matter as much as what is in your heart. Get your heart right with God and the rest will follow. It's all between you and God not between you and men, or in most cases.....judgemental women.