{"id":8683,"date":"2015-02-03T05:00:55","date_gmt":"2015-02-03T11:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/?p=8683"},"modified":"2016-09-07T14:14:57","modified_gmt":"2016-09-07T19:14:57","slug":"35","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/?p=8683","title":{"rendered":"35"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"DSC_0015\"<\/a>Today I am 35. A good age, I think. What a privilege.<\/p>\n

The above photo is one of my favorites \u2014 my dad, who rarely made an appearance on the other side of the camera, holding a not-yet-one-year-old me on his shoulder. I think of my life so far and feel completely and utterly blown away by how lucky I have been. The people I have known and loved, the experiences and travel and challenges, the three beautiful healthy children I have brought into this world with the love of my life and best friend, the life we have built together. The joy I have found in writing and blogging and photography and more importantly, the gratitude I feel toward Andrew for the work he does to make my creative pursuits a possibility in the first place.<\/p>\n

I recently laid eyes upon the most fabulous older woman at a coffee shop I frequent. She had cropped straight silver hair with super short bangs, round glasses and flowing interesting clothes full of daring vibrant prints. She exuded an untouchable grace and confidence that made her many wrinkles enviable. It was obvious to me all at once that she had let herself age naturally (no stretched-tight skin anywhere) and the deep laugh lines at the corners of her eyes and mouth brought so much character to her face. She had lived a full life so far.\u00a0I will be like her some day,\u00a0<\/em>I thought to myself.<\/p>\n

Some of the most beautiful women I know are much older and glow from the inside out. It is happiness and confidence and experience. And that, above all else, I value in growing older. I am so happy to be here today, healthy, happy, and able to tell the people I love that very thing, that I love them. It’s a good thing, this life.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Today I am 35. A good age, I think. What a privilege. The above photo is one of my favorites \u2014 my dad, who rarely made an appearance on the other side of the camera, holding a not-yet-one-year-old me on his shoulder. I think of my life so far and feel completely and utterly blown … Continue reading “35”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8698,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[187],"tags":[70,95,48],"class_list":["post-8683","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-motherhood","tag-birthday","tag-lauren","tag-motherhood"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8683","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8683"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8683\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8685,"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8683\/revisions\/8685"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8698"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}