30 Day Blog Challenge - Day 1

I found this challenge online...it is 30 topics.  I will take one topic each day for the next 30 days!  Should be an easy way for me to get into the blogging tradition:

Day 1 - my current relationship

SINGLE...

It's taken me quite a few years to accept that I am single.  Accept and enjoy that I am single...  

Back in high school, I had these grand plans to be married by the time I was 25, and 2 kids before I turned 30....

Well, life has other plans for me.  Here I am 30 year's old and not a single prospect on the horizon...

For years, after receiving many wedding invitations and baby shower invites, I would spend hours crying over when I would get my chance.  I was miserable.  I hated being single.

Always a bridesmaid, never a bride...

It seemed like everyone was getting married and/or having babies, and I was just stuck...stuck in my boring life.  But then with one concert, my life changed...After attending a New Kids on the Block concert in June 2009, I began to meet some of the most incredible women.  After 4 years full of adventures, I am in a good place.

I am happy.  I don't need a man to make me happy.  I don't have a relationship from holding me back.  I have the freedom to attend as many concerts as I can rightly afford.  I can do whatever I want, as often as I want...without feeling as though I am leaving someone behind.

I love my life, single and all!  I am an auntie to 3 wonderful children, who are the light of my life.  I am living with my best friend.  We've had 5 years of single fun together!  I have an AMAZING group of friends, from all corners of the world!  I have met celebrities and been to places I probably would not have ever gone had it not been for the "family" that I am a part of now.

Do I want to get married and have children?  Sure...but I'm not going to let "looking for a man" run my life.  If/when I am destined to meet a man, I will.  Until then, being single is pretty great, and I am pretty darn happy with my life!

My Flipagram video from 2013...