40 is okay if you still feel and live young (doesn’t seem to be a problem for you at the moment). I reckon Zac turning 18 is going to be a LOT more traumatic for you than turning 40. Luckily you have a few years to prepare for that 🙂 Even more luckily for me, I don’t have any kids 🙂

Turning 40 is going to be major second child panic stations for me, I know. But, yes, I can imagine 41 being the weirder one. Because you brace for 40. And you don’t brace for 41.

I actually felt that turning 40 was pretty cool but I suspect that 41 is really going to sting when that comes around in a couple of months.

It’s weird how 40’s such a psychological turning point, isn’t it? I remember 30 being a bit of a big deal at the time, but, once you start with a 4, you’re definitely into “I could be your mother age”…

Yes, thank you for those well meant but crushing words.
Need to catch up with your next installment now 🙂

You’ll love what he says to me in the morning, then, cousin. So glad this is playing well among family — *coughs*. Though it does raise rather a high bar for Harbin.

And it is awesome that you felt that way! I too have absolutely no desire to be 21!

It was odd. In that, having spent the odd moment being neurotic about my age earlier, confronted with “You could be my mother”, I actually felt really glad to be my age, to have had an interesting life, to be having an interesting life, and absolutely zero desire to be 21 again. Which is ass backwards and would have taken some explaining, so I kind of left it out of the post….