Star Pocket

I don't know if you are familiar with the term 'Star Pocket'. You are probably not, as it is something I only recently heard of and I am almost sure it is not out there. Yet.

So let me explain this obscure, but essential concept. Everyone has a Star Pocket, even if they don't know or call them something else. Simply put - it is where you keep all those amazing little and big moments in life when something extraordinarily miraculous happened to you - falling in love, meeting a good friend, having your baby, having your first kiss, enjoying the sun lying in a meadow on a summer day.

Yes, you got it - all the happy moments. And because we know life is never straightforward, we reach into the Star Pocket when we are in the midst of a slump, when life isn't going well for us. 

And all the good things in the Star Pocket just keep us going. Therefore, keep filling your Star Pocket - you never know when you will need it. Because you will. 

Hello, my forties

When I turned forty, I didn't see it as that big of a deal. It's not as if something clicked and things changed overnight just because I was now officially in that dreaded decade. And, might I add, I was told this is the beginning of the end.

No such thing. Best decade of my life so far: 

I appreciate myself so much more. 

Using lessons learned as I have never before. I know well who I am.

Raising my kids with a confidence I didn't have in my 30s.

Going through a midlife crisis, which I strongly recommend to everyone, if done right (need a separate story for that).