Yesterday, I turned 36. I'm officially too old to check the 18-35 box in forms. I'm not in the "valuable" demographic anymore.

I suppose this should make me feel irrelevant, but thankfully that is not the case. But boy, am I tired!

I don't feel irrelevant at home -- my boys need me more than ever. If I waste one afternoon at the DMV our house falls into chaos. There is no food for the children, laundry piles up, the children get bored. It would be flattering, really, except that I feel an intense pressure to never get sick. I know it won't always be this way, but we are definitely in the thick of it.

(Speaking of the DMV, here's my old license photo from 10 years ago and the new temporary picture. I look more like myself in the new picture, despite the unfortunate hair going on there. The nice DMV lady tried to get me to take another picture, but I told her to just make sure I was registered to vote. "You are," she said. "Then let's do this. I've got to go pick up the kids at school!" Civic and motherly duties trumped vanity. I guess this means I'm finally growing up. Progress!)

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Another place I don't feel irrelevant is in my work. I'm getting to do so many cool things in my role at <a href="http://www.swaygroupllc.com/">Sway</a>, where my Big Fancy Title is Brand Marketing Director (at my advanced age fancy titles are very soothing, so humor me) and I get to shepherd companies big and small into the wild and wonderful world of new media. It's fun, and I get to work with some fun people. So that's good -- but busy!

And then, there's my other work as a blogger. I know I've been quiet around here, but the past few months have been a flurry of busy. Just in the past month I went to New York City to attend the Social Good Summit -- much more on that in another post -- and last week I hosted an event for Levi's on behalf of Babble. That was certainly different from

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