We are one week shy of Scott’s 30th birthday.


Which means we are then shy of my 30th by 4 months and 1 day.

So, let it be known that you heard it here first – we are turning 30, version 3.0. 

It’s a term I have dubbed for the next version of ourselves. You know, the smarter, wiser, savvier version of the 2.0. My twenties were undoubtedly the most tumultuous of my life, and I am looking to my 30s for peace, clarity, and the beginning of a bunch of wonderful.

With that being said, Scott is living the last week of version 2.9, and the grand launch of 3.0 will happen on December 1st.

We’ll be home for his birthday, which I am both glad and bummed out about. Being home, Scott has the opportunity to celebrate this milestone with the people who gave him life, but also taught him to enjoy it. I am fortunate that Scott’s family is one of the greatest families I know, and celebrating with them is a welcomed event.

Bummed I am, however, that this birthday will not be one I get to design from the bottom up. I am a birthday enthusiast, and will bend over backwards to create a fantasy for the birthday person. Being at home, Scott and I will spend the evening together, but then we’ll retire to our perspective childhood homes for the night, where I won’t be able to inundate the man with balloons and a carpet of bubble wrap for his early morning birthday run.

After a few hours left at home, we’ll spend 7+ hours driving back to DC in the car, crammed in with Ivan and Miah and luggage galore. Poor Scott- spending the bulk of his birthday cooped up on the road.

SO – racking my brain on ways to bring a little special to my birthday boy. 30 is a big deal, and this is the first birthday I will get to share with him. He took me out for a fabulous 29th birthday dinner back in April, so I wish I could replicate as beautiful a day/evening on his birthday.

How do you feel about birthdays? Love em? Or hate them like the plague?
(feel free to throw a few pointers my way for the first birthday together – lord knows I’m looking for a wee bit of help…)

-Al