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Bring on the 40's

I am excited to turn 40.  I am excited to be done having kids and to be in a place where I can start giving back to the community.  For the last year or so I felt that I need to start getting into the community and start volunteering.  So I have been searching several websites to find the right place where I can help with out leaving my house.  So several weeks ago I found an agency that I have wanted to be involved with for a long time but, where they need help wasn't something I felt I could do.  A few weeks ago I found that they were looking for somebody to wash, dry and iron and that is something I can do from home. The agency is Days for Girls and it is something that I can really support.

Then tonight I was once again looking while I was at work and found that a national crisis text line who was looking for volunteers to answer texts two hours a week from persons in crisis.  Once again something I can do from home after the kids are in bed. 

I feel as though we have so much and that we should be giving back.   I would like to over Christmas Break to take the kids to cook dinner at the  Ronald McDonald House and hopefully start to make it a monthly thing. But not sure we are going to be able to make that work because I can not take the little boys.  Also I would like to start every payday  taking food to the local shelter. 

We are going to start funneling all extra money into debt and so I am not comfortable giving a lot money to charities at this time. But time I have. 

I know there are family members/church members who feel that I should be doing more family history but my heart is sending me a different direction.  My heart is with those people who are suffering now and those who are alive now.  I believe that is where God is calling me to be now.

In my 40's I am looking forward to less debt and less stress.  More real friendships and less fake ones.  More laughter. More running and more races.   In the next ten years we will have two kids out on their own and two still at home. 

I feel as though I am finally where I want to be career wise and really think I could be at this job for the next ten years.  Although that is a long time and I am not sure I will be here that long.

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